The United Nations Secretariat Building in New York was designed by an international Board of Design under Wallace Harrison, with Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier among its ten members. Groundbreaking was on September 14, 1948, and it was completed in June 1951. John D. Rockefeller Jr. donated the site. The article calls the style International Style.
The slab measures 72 by 287 feet (22 by 87 m) and has 39 floors above ground. Height conflicts: the infobox gives 505 feet (154 m) and the text gives 544 feet (166 m). The east and west walls are glass curtain walls, and the north and south ends are Vermont marble with no openings.
A renovation from 2010 to 2012 replaced the curtain wall, rebuilt the interior and added blast protection. The site is controlled by the UN, and visitors were not admitted at first. A Chagall stained-glass window hangs in the lobby.
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