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Dec 6, 2017

New United Nations Tower Building

U.N. Tower Building in New York City

Design: FXFOWLE Architects

FXFowle Principal Dan Kaplan explained that much of the design work had been completed for a 35-story tower on the site, and while it will not change significantly, it does require some updating, reports the New York Observer.

Following a land deal with New York City, the U.N. is back to work on building a new tower to house its operations across the street from the under-renovation U.N. Secretariat. Celebrated Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, is back to work on the project, along with local partner FXFowle.

The most notable project by Fumihiko Maki in Manhattan, if not the world, is Tower 4 at the World Trade Center (WTC), currently rising downtown. Among FXFowle’s many New York projects are The New York Times Building, where the firm partnered with Italy’s Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

The UN Tower architecture competition in 2004 was only open to Pritzker Prize-winning architects.

source: New United Nations Tower Building

Jul 5, 2016

United Nations Building New York City

United Nations Building in New York City
Design: Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer and Sir Howard Robertson with Harrison & Abramovitz Architects

images from 24 Jun – 2 Jul 2016 © Adrian Welch:

View from river of the UN Building New York:

United Nations Building New York City

United Nations Building New York City

United Nations Building New York City

United Nations Building New York City

United Nations Building New York City

View from land of the UN Building New York:

United Nations Building New York City

United Nations Building New York City

United Nations Building New York City

Authorship of this building is complex: please refer to the wikipedia page: United Nations Building New York City

United Nations Headquarters

UNO Buildings
Location: 1st Avenue, Turtle Bay, New York City, USA
Date built: 1947-53
Design: Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, Sir Howard Robertson
with Harrison & Abramovitz Architects

This is the only Le Corbusier building in New York; it starred in the Fountainhead film.

This HQ complex in New York City served as the official headquarters of the United Nations since its completion in 1952.

United Nations Headquarters New York City

The main building is a massive slab block – Secretariat, 39-floor office tower – that rises up by the East River, located near the UN Plaza.

The UN Building New York is located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood, between First Avenue and the East River, and between East 42nd Street to the south and East 48th Street on the north.

The United Nations has three additional, subsidiary, regional headquarters or headquarter districts, in Geneva, Vienna and Nairobi. The 17 acres (69,000 sqm) site occupied by the United Nations Headquarters is under the sole administration of the United Nations, ie it is not part of the USA.

The land was purchased from New York real estate developer William Zeckendorf. Sr. Nelson Rockefeller arranged this purchase. The $8.5 m purchase was then funded by his father, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who donated it to the city. Architect Wallace Harrison – personal architectural adviser for the Rockefeller family – acted as Director of Planning for the United Nations Headquarters Building. His architecture practice, Harrison and Abramovitz, oversaw the execution of the UN HQ Complex design.

Another key Le Corbusier Building in the USA is the Carpenter Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, dating from 1963.

Le Corbusier in America

The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University is the only significant building by Le Corbusier in the USA other than the United Nations Building in New York. Built in 1961-63(64) it is a simple medium-rise building dominated by a cranked ramp. It appears in many architecture textbooks and courses.

Le Corbusier

Oscar Niemeyer

Location: UNO Buildings, 1st Avenue, New York City, USA

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Seagram Building, 375 Park Avenue
1958
Design: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect; Philip Johnson

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Design: Marcel Breuer Architect

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The United Nations Headquarters architect was Le Corbusier, based in Paris, France.

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