1/6 · ExteriorCC BY-SA 3.0 · source2/6 · Exterior · United Nations Secretariat Building, Manhattan, New York CityPhoto: Photograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source3/6 · ExteriorPhoto: Tessa Bury · CC BY 4.0 · source4/6 · InteriorPhoto: U.S. Department of State from United States · Public domain · source5/6 · InteriorPhoto: U.S. Department of State from United States · Public domain · source6/6 · Detail · The front of the United Nations headquarters buildingPhoto: David Shankbone · CC BY 3.0 · source
Civic · Modernism
United Nations Secretariat Building
Wallace K. Harrison with Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer · New York, United States · 1952
Key featuresSlab tower with glass curtain-wall long faces and windowless stone-clad ends beside the East River.
Steel & glass
Stone
Facade as skin
Architect
Wallace K. Harrison with Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer