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1952 · Manhattan, Manhattan, United States

Headquarters of the United Nations image

Group of buildings in New York City

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Headquarters of the United Nations

Manhattan, Manhattan, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Hero image

Group of buildings in New York City

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Comparison

Field	Headquarters of the United Nations 1952 · Manhattan, Manhattan, United States	Douglas Cardinal Architect 1964 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1952	1964
Place	Manhattan, Manhattan, United States	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Place context	Manhattan, Manhattan, United States	Representative site: Gatineau, Gatineau, Canada
Climate	8°C · 13.5h daylight · 15 km/h wind	0°C · 13.8h daylight · 17 km/h wind · via Canadian Museum of History
Focus	Architecture	3 works in corpus
Architects	Le Corbusier	Douglas Cardinal
Linked context	Bureaus Atelier Le Corbusier	Notable works Canadian Museum of History Telus World of Science Edmonton National Museum of the American Indian
Typologies	library	museum house performance venue landscape
Materials	Not recorded yet.	timber
Carbon signals	library gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.