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Hero image

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	Pier Luigi Nervi 1932 · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1952	1932
Place	Manhattan, Manhattan, United States	Rome, Lazio, Italy
Place context	FDR Drive, Manhattan, Manhattan Community Board 6, New York, New York, United States	Representative site: Via Gabriele Chiabrera, San Salvario, Torino, Piemonte, Italia
Climate	4°C · 13.5h daylight · 7 km/h wind	13°C · 13.8h daylight · 5 km/h wind · via Torino Esposizioni
Focus	Architecture	5 works in corpus
Architects	Le Corbusier	Pier Luigi Nervi
Linked context	Bureaus Atelier Le Corbusier	Notable works Torino Esposizioni Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (San Francisco) Norfolk Scope Paul VI Audience Hall
Typologies	library	building church sacred space cathedral education campus building performance venue landscape
Materials	Not recorded yet.	concrete
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.	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.