Africa: Ahead of Assembly Hall Renovation, UN Honours Designers of Its Iconic Headquarters

24 April 2013

With an extensive renovation of the great General Assembly Hall imminent, United Nations officials today paid tribute to architect Oscar Niemeyer and other members of the UN board of design in a ceremony that revisited the inception of the iconic Headquarters project.

"Our architects were ahead of the times," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said as he helped open the proceedings, noting that the Secretariat building was the first based on its particular glass and steel structure. "I hope that we will follow their example and stay at the vanguard when it comes to solving global problems," he added.

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