UN Secretariat Building, NYC, 2021.
All the pixels, pretending to get along, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51381729335
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I have mixed feelings about Le Corbusier's architecture (to say nothing of his urban planning philosophy), but I think the UN Secretariat building was one of his successes.
An aside: If you look at the full resolution version (downloadable on flickr), you can see the HF amateur radio antenna on the roof. Nerds are everywhere, even/especially at the UN. There's also a family taking a group picture on the street in front.
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Robert Hughes's "The Shock of The New"
covered this remarkably well, (late 70s).
drew a direct (if you paid attn) line to the 3rd R's goals and this architecture.
https://archive.org/details/bbc.-the-shock-of-the-new-robert-hughes-1980-hq