United Nations Building New York, Architecture, Architect e-architect

UN Building New York: Architecture, USA

United Nations Headquarters (UNO Buildings) 1st Avenue, New York 1947-53 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. 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. United Nations Headquarters architect - Le Corbusier Key Le Corbusier Buildings: Unité d'Habitation, Marseille, France 1952 Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France 1955 La Tourette Monastery, Lyon, France 1957 Unité d'Habitation, Berlin, Germany 1959 Carpenter Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 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. Key New York Buildings close to the United Nations Building: Seagram Building 375 Park Avenue, New York 1954-58 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect; Philip Johnson Seagram Building Whitney Museum 945 Madison Avenue, Upper East Side 1966 Marcel Breuer, Architect This building contains a contemporary art collection of around 12,000 paintings. Marcel Breuer also worked on the Paris UNESCO Building - Paris Buildings New York Skyscrapers New York Architects New York Architecture Architecture Competition Modern Architects World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe Comments / photos for the United Nations Building New York Architecture page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk UN Building New York : Architecture page - adrian welch / isabelle lomholt