 The German news media strongly criticized the aesthetics of the new American embassy building, often calling it banal and ugly—especially as compared with the embassies of many other nations in Berlin.For example, the German daily newspaper "Die Welt" ran the headline "Ugly but safe - the new US-Embassy"
The American Embassy in Berlin oversees all of the American diplomatic functions in Germany, including the American consulates in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig, and Munich.There are also a few additional offices located in Bonn, the former federal capital, but there is no longer a consulate there.