United Nations Secretariat Building, NYC, 2021.
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I have mixed feelings about Le Corbusier's architecture (to say nothing of his urban planning philosophy - he clearly influenced Robert Moses), but I think the UN Secretariat building was one of his successes.
An aside: If you look at the full resolution version (downloadable on flickr), you can see the HF amateur radio antenna on the roof. Nerds are everywhere, even/especially at the UN. There's also a family taking a group picture on the street in front.
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I wouldn't blame LeC for the excesses of Moses but yes, his and contemporaneous urban planning violated his own 'human scale' critereon; planned dystopias. We're lucky so few visions were completed.
Is there a planned city drawn & built in the automobile era as successful as Paris or D.C., drawn & built for horse-carriages ?
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This view of the Secretariat only focuses thought on your discussion, considering it by itself as a historic building.✅️
Usually it's reduced to straight-man for the GA building's punchline, a study in contrast.
Which is fine, that was the point C & N &al were making. ( Similar to unicameral Nebraska statehouse. )
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Impressive fine detail!