FN's hovedkvarter i New York

The headquarters of the United Nations is a placed in New York City. It has been one of the most important buildings since it was built from 1947 to 9. October 1952. The owner is “United Nation”. It took them along time to just make the cornerstone. It took them about 2 years. It was at the year from 1947 to 1949. The building is about 155 meters, which is about 509 feet’s. There are about 39 floors in the building. The buildings Architect is the American architect Wallace K. Harrison was named as chief architect and director of planning, and a board of design consultants was nominated by member governments. It is located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan. All 15 of the United Nations' specialized agencies are located outside New York at these other headquarters or in other cities. The price for this huge and very beautiful building wasn’t as much as they thought in the start. They thought it would be more than $85 million. But they were lucky this time, because it only costs them about $65 million, and that made the people happier for the beautiful building. The construction of the headquarters was financed by an interest-free loan of $65 million made by the United States government, and the cost of construction was also reported as $65 million. Later in the future they are thinking of changing the building. They want to change inside the building, so they might have to change the whole system.