United Nations Headquarters

1:3000 scale miniature paper model, about 2.25 inches tall

This complex of buildings was designed in 1948 by an international committee of architects including Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer. The 39-story Secretariat building was the first international-style skyscraper built in New York. Other important buildings include the sloping General Assembly Hall and the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. The site is an international territory not technically part of New York or the United States.

Read more:

• You can take a public tour of the UN Building
• Early plans and models of the building
• The complex was designed by an international committee of architects lead by Wallace Harrison
• Artwork at the UN Headquarters
• The United Nations at 70: Restoration and Renewal , by Martti Ahtisaari & Carter Wiseman, published by Rizzoli (2015)