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Lounge Area Inside the United Nations General Assembly Building

by Keith Porter
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Lounge Area Inside the United Nations General Assembly Building

Lounge Area Inside the United Nations General Assembly Building

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Behind The Scenes At The United Nations
NEW YORK - A man sits on couches looking out onto the north end of the General Assembly building of the United Nations (May 12, 2006) at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The United Nations headquarters, completed in 1952 and largely unchanged since, is widely considered to be a landmark achievement of the International Style of architecture, a style that reached a massive climax with the construction of the World Trade Center 20 years later.

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