UNESCO, 4th Building (Place de Fontenoy)

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UNESCO, 4th Building (Place de Fontenoy)

Site Plan (Dwg. No. 11)

Drawings   110  browse all »

Parking Layout Study
Presentation Set
UNESCO 4e Batiment (Presentation Set) (annotated)

Correspondence   64  browse all »

Telegram
Letter
Letter

By 1960, UNESCO realized it would need more office space and asked Breuer, Bernard Zehrfuss and Pier Luigi Nervi to design a fourth building for the site along with an underground parking garage. Breuer envisioned a building with a modular concrete façade raised on as few columns as possible so as have a minimal impact on the visual effect of the open plaza. He and Nervi developed the design in great detail, but the building was never built. The two had a falling out with Zehrfuss in 1962 when Zehrfuss submitted an independent design for the project. A version of that design was built in 1965. The most striking feature of Zehrfuss's below-ground expansion was the sunken patios providing light and access to greenery.