In the 1950s, it achieved a high profile by hiring well-known modernist architects like Ralph Rapson, Harrison & Abramovitz, and Gordon Bunshaft.
Lachman later worked at the U.S. Department of State as an International Real Estate Portfolio Manager and leader of the New Embassies and Consulates group at the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations.
Federal Bureau of Investigation | Shanghai Railway Bureau | Bureau of Land Management | Special Operations Executive | Central Bureau of Investigation | Chief of Naval Operations | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives | British Overseas Territories | Bureau of Indian Affairs | United States Census Bureau | United States Bureau of Reclamation | Bureau of Meteorology | Citizens Advice Bureau | Better Business Bureau | Wuhan Railway Bureau | Federal Bureau of Prisons | Pacific Theater of Operations | Overseas Press Club | Overseas Chinese | Bureau of Engraving and Printing | National Guard Bureau | Bureau of Internal Revenue | Bureau of Plant Industry | British Overseas Airways Corporation | United States special operations forces | United States Special Operations Command | The Adjustment Bureau | Overseas Service Ribbon | Operations management | Mansudae Overseas Projects |
The project management for the land acquisition and the construction of the consulate building was headed by Gary S. Lachman while he was working as the New Embassy and Consulate Team Leader at the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations at the U.S. Department of State.