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The United Nations Headquarters. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive between 42nd to 48th streets and United Nations Plaza (First Avenue) Wallace K. Harrison, 1948-1952 (Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer as consultant architects).
The new UN Secretariat Building from 44th Street, between Second and First Avenue, in Tudor City. View looking east, in spring, 1950.
Photo: Samuel H. Gottscho/Gottscho-Schleisner.
Source: Progressive Architecture, June 1950.
The 39-story United Nations Secretariat Building. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive and United Nations Plaza (First Avenue) between 42nd to 44th streets. Wallace K. Harrison, 1950 (Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer as consultant architects).
Detail of the glass facade of the Secretariat Building. 1950. View looking east.
Photo: Louis B. Schiveck.
Source: Architectural Record, May, 1950.
Don’t miss the last part of the especial about United Nations Secretariat in the blog (in Spanish) “Historia de los Rascacielos de Nueva York”.
The 39-story United Nations Secretariat Building. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive and United Nations Plaza (First Avenue) between 42nd to 44th streets. Wallace K. Harrison, 1950 (Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer as consultant architects).
Construction of the Secretariat Building in Autumn, 1949. View looking northwest.
Photo: United Nations Photo/Flickr.
Don’t miss the new photogallery of the construction the United Nations Secretariat on the second part of the Chapter One of the special about United Nations Headquarters in the blog (in Spanish) “Historia de los Rascacielos de Nueva York”.
United Nations Headquarters. Franklyn Delano Roosevelt Drive and United Nations Plaza (First Avenue) between 42nd to 48th streets. Wallace K. Harrison, 1947-1952 (Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer as consultant architects).
Rendering of United Nations Headquarters and its impact on Midtown Manhattan skyline. Rendering by Hugh Ferris. 1947.
Photo: Unknown.
Source: Architectural Record, August, 1947.
Don’t miss the first part (in Spanish) of the serie about the history of United Nations Headquarters, in the blog “Historia de los Rascacielos de Nueva York”. The first part is from creation of U.N. to design phase.
The 39-story United Nations’ Secretariat Building. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive and 42nd Street. Wallace K. Harrison, 1948-1950 (Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer as consultant architects).
The UN Secretariat Building’s windowless marble south facade. Autumn, 1950.
Photo: Unknown.
Source: Architectural Forum, November, 1950.
The 39-story United Nations’ Secretariat Building. Franklyn Delano Roosevelt Drive and 42nd Street. Wallace K. Harrison, 1948-1950 (Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer as consultant architects).
The UN Secretariat Building during its construction. View looking northeast from First Avenue and 41st Street. Autumn, 1949.
Photo: Unknown.
Source: Architectural Record, April 1950.
Don’t miss a new article (in Spanish) about the evolution of Manhattan skyline during 1949 in the blog, “Historia de los Rascacielos de Nueva York”.
Aerial view of Midtown Manhattan’s skyscrapers looking southwest in Spring 1954 showing a few modern buildings in the start of mid-century building boom. United Nations Headquarters (Wallace K. Harrison and and International Architects comitee, 1948-1952) are at foregrpound. The 102-story Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) are at left dominating the skyline, and the 77-story Chrysler Building (William Van Allen, 1930) are on the center, at bakground.
Photo: Unknown.
Source: "A Pictorial Booklet of the United Nations" (Boston, A Natural Color.Co. Publication, Circa, 1960).
