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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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Group of buildings in New York City

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Comparison

Field	Headquarters of the United Nations 1952 · Manhattan, Manhattan, United States	Otto Wagner 1880 · Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1952	1880
Place	Manhattan, Manhattan, United States	Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Place context	Manhattan, Manhattan, United States	Representative site: Döbling, Döbling, Austria
Climate	4°C · 13.5h daylight · 6 km/h wind	8°C · 13.9h daylight · 13 km/h wind · via Nussdorf weir and lock
Focus	Architecture	21 works in corpus
Architects	Le Corbusier	Otto Wagner
Linked context	Bureaus Atelier Le Corbusier	Notable works Nussdorf weir and lock Pilgramgasse station Kettenbrückengasse station Hotel Bristol, Warsaw
Typologies	library	building housing hospitality church sacred space performance venue house civic building
Materials	Not recorded yet.	steel tile
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.	Steel and Tile look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Steel Tile
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons. Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	7 of 7 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.