United Nations Headquarters

United Nations Headquarters

Year

1952

Architect

Type

building

The Secretariat's glass curtain wall (a sheer 39-storey slab of blue-green heat-absorbing glass framed by narrow marble end walls) was the first fully glazed skyscraper in New York. The design emerged from an international committee led by …

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