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UNESCO Headquarters: Exterior · Place de Fontenoy - Paris VII
1/6 · Exterior · Place de Fontenoy - Paris VIIPhoto: Mbzt · CC BY 3.0 · source
UNESCO Headquarters: Exterior
2/6 · ExteriorPhoto: Fred Romero from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0 · source
UNESCO Headquarters: Exterior · Entrée secondaire de l'UNESCO, 125 avenue de Suffren (Paris, 7e)
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UNESCO Headquarters: Exterior · UNESCO @ Paris
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UNESCO Headquarters: Interior
5/6 · InteriorPhoto: John Andersson (WMSE) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
UNESCO Headquarters: Interior
6/6 · InteriorPhoto: John Andersson (WMSE) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Photo 1: Exterior · Place de Fontenoy - Paris VIIPhoto 2: ExteriorPhoto 3: Exterior · Entrée secondaire de l'UNESCO, 125 avenue de Suffren (Paris, 7e)Photo 4: Exterior · UNESCO @ ParisPhoto 5: InteriorPhoto 6: Interior

Civic · Modernism

UNESCO Headquarters

Marcel Breuer, Pier Luigi Nervi, Bernard Zehrfuss · Paris, France · 1958

Key featuresY-shaped Secretariat on sculpted concrete pilotis, beside a conference hall with a folded concrete roof.

Architect
Marcel Breuer, Pier Luigi Nervi, Bernard Zehrfuss
Place
Paris, France
Year
1958
Typology
Civic
Movement
Modernism
Region
Europe
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