The United Nations Headquarters in Turtle Bay, Manhattan, was designed by a board of designers mediated by Harrison & Abramovitz and led by Wallace Harrison, with final projects by Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier. The UN owns it. Rockefeller donated the site in December 1946, and design began in February 1947. Groundbreaking was on September 14, 1948.
The infobox calls the style Modern architecture. The narrow north and south elevations are Vermont marble, the Secretariat has glass curtain walls in a metal grid, and the General Assembly Building uses Portland limestone. The Secretariat has 39 floors and rises 510 feet (155.3 m). The General Assembly Hall seats 1,800.
The UN moved into the Secretariat on January 8, 1951. The infobox gives completion on October 9, 1952, and the text says October 10. Renovations began on May 5, 2008. It closed to the public on March 10, 2020, and the article gives no hours.
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