United Nations Secretariat Building, NYC, 2021.
All the pixels, none of the motorcades or protests, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51381729335
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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.
@mattblaze@federate.social Speaking of, Robert Moses secured the land for the U.N. building. It was a dicey thing. In an alternate universe close to ours, the U.N. building is in Boston
@mattblaze@federate.social we visit my in-laws in Chandigarh every year and that is about Le Corbusier as it gets.
https://chandigarh.gov.in/know-chandigarh/general-information#:~:text=Le%20Corbusier%20conceived%20the%20master,cultural%20and%20educational%20institutions
@mattblaze@federate.social I watched a movie couple nights ago - Mister 880 - with a scene at the interim UN building in Flushing Meadows. The movie only showed a few interior scenes so I looked up the exterior. Totally generic Euro-bureau-palace, like the League of Nations but smaller. So that's what the current building was reacting to.