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Appropriately enough, a team of architects from all over the world designed the U.N. Headquarters. The scheme is primarily associated with French architect Le Corbusier with significant contributions from Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer and American Wallace K. Harrison. The 39-story Secretariat building, only 72-feet wide, was controversial in its day but has become a Modernist landmark.
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