United Nations General Assembly Building
- Style
- International Style
- City
- Manhattan, NY
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The United Nations General Assembly Building is part of the UN headquarters in the Turtle Bay neighborhood, housing the main assembly hall of the UN General Assembly, the organization's main deliberative and policymaking body. It was designed by a group of architects led by Wallace Harrison and is connected to the Secretariat Building and the Dag Hammarskjöld Library nearby.
the building
A hall built for assembly. The four-story building measures 380 by 160 feet, with concave walls to the east and west and a concave, domed roof. Its central General Assembly Hall seats 1,800 people and measures 165 feet long, 115 feet wide, and 75 feet tall.
Separate lobbies. The building contains a lobby for journalists and the general public to the north and a separate lobby for delegates to the south.
the style
Its modern architecture gives the building a distinct concave geometry, setting it apart from the rest of the UN complex as the seat of the General Assembly.
More on International Stylesignificance
Though physically sited within the United States, the building is exempt from some local regulations because the land is under UN jurisdiction.
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