Headquarters of the United Nations
The headquarters of the United Nations is a group of buildings in New York City. The complex has served as the official headquarters of the United Nations since its completion in 1952. It is located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan, on spacious grounds overlooking the East River.
Its borders are First Avenue on the west, East 42nd Street to the south, East 48th Street on the north and the East River to the east.[1] Turtle Bay is occasionally used as a metonym for the U.N. headquarters or for the U.N. as a whole.[2] The building was designed by many architects across the world including Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "United Nations Visitors Centre". United Nations. Archived from the original on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
- ↑ "Turtle Bay blog". Foreign Policy. foreignpolicy.com. Archived from the original on 20 November 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
Other websites
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Media related to Headquarters of the United Nations at Wikimedia Commons
- UN Visitors Centre Archived 2010-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
- UN: Building an International Headquarters in New York – historical overview, on the UN 60th Anniversary webpage
- Agreement Establishing the UN headquarters Archived 2010-06-03 at the Wayback Machine – with information on legal status
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