2 United Nations Plaza

USA / New Jersey / West New York / East 44th Street, 329
 hotel, office building, skyscraper, international organization
505-foot, 39-story modernist office building completed in 1981, six years after its semi-twin tower in the United Nations Plaza complex was built. Designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates, they share a 1-story base, and glass-and-metal covered plaza area on 44th Street. They are also linked by a skybridge. Both towers are clad in reflective green glass in silver aluminum framing, with distinctive angular, folded forms.

The lower floors are office space, while the hotel is on floors 28-39. The hotel original opened as the United Nations Hotel when One United Nations Plaza was finished in 1975. With the construction of the second tower, the lobby space was enlarged and moved to the connecting base area, with a long frontage along 44th Street. The hotel was later managed for two decades by Hyatt, and currently operates as the Millennium Hilton One U.N. Plaza.

The rear of 2 United Nations Plaza, on 45th Street, is similar to the other facades. The ground floor is clad in grey granite, and extending out from it is a glass-and-aluminum, sloped canopy. There is a series of loading docks at the east end, and an entrance near the west end to a ground-floor tenant, The International Preschools.

In this building

  1. Andorran UN Mission
  2. Mexican UN Mission
  3. International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (UN Observer Mission)
  4. UNESCO Office at the United Nations
  5. ITU Liason Office
  6. WIPO UN Coordination Office
  7. IFAD UN Liaison Office
  8. UN Administrative Tribunal
  9. International Civil Service Commission
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Plaza
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Coordinates:   40°45'3"N   73°58'10"W
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