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UN Plaza buildings to get $500M revamp
The development plan will modernize One and Two United Nations Plaza—built in the 1970s and 80s—while consolidating its ...
Crain's New York4d
UN Plaza buildings to undergo $500M facelift
The United Nations Development Corp. is redeveloping 1 and 2 United Nations Plaza, two office buildings located across First ...
Architectural Record26d
‘Assembly by Design’ Challenges the Accepted Story behind the Design of UN Headquarters in New York
The Board of Design’s intrinsically advisory role was dramatized by its dismissal after four months; the UN did not keep architects around for any actual building. This note of semi-superfluity ...
Fast Company9mon
un building
Find New York’s best architecture with a little social-networking help. Oscar Niemeyer, The Original Starchitect, Dead At 104 The man behind the U.N. building and the jaw-dropping architecture ...
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SOM’s dramatic yet welcoming UAE Mission to the UN
Designed by leading architecture studio SOM, the building is the first such ground-up ... the modernist arcitecture icon that is the United Nations (UN) Headquarters, completed in 1950 to a design by ...