United Nations Building New York, Architect, Le Corbusier, Location, Date, Offices

UN Building New York, USA : Architecture Information

20th Century Manhattan Architecture, United States of America



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.

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.

Le Corbusier

Oscar Niemeyer



 




New York Architecture Walking Tours

United Nations North Delegates Lounge
OMA
UN North Delegates Lounge
image © OMA

UN North Delegates Lounge

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 Architecture

New York Architecture News

USUN Building, New York City
2010
USUN Building interior
photo : Paul Warchol
USUN Building : FAPE American art installation

New York Architects



New York State Architecture

New York Architecture - Selection

Empire State Building
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, Architects
Empire State Building
photo © Andrew McRae
Empire State Building

Rockefeller Center
Raymond Hood, Architect
Rockefeller Center Manhattan
photograph © Andrew McRae
Rockefeller Center New York

Guggenheim Museum, East Harlem
Frank Lloyd Wright Architects
Guggenheim Museum New York
photo : David M. Heald, © SRGF, New York
Guggenheim Museum

Modern Architects

Le Corbusier building in Germany

United Nations Headquarters architect - Le Corbusier

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