The headquarters of the United Nations is one of the world's best-known buildings – and perhaps the most important. The building is located in Manhattan, on the site of a former slaughterhouse. Architectural writer Mark Isitt has, together with photographer Åke E:son Lindman, gained unique access to this masterpiece of a building. In addition to the Security Council assembly room and the gleaming General Assembly, everything has been documented from Ban Ki-moon's office on the 38th floor of the Secretariat to the upholstery workshop in the chilly basement of the conference building. This is a depiction of this unique building’s architecture and creation.

Isitt is an award-winning architect critic at Swedish daily Göteborgs-Posten and has written about architecture and design in Swedish and international magazines for 25 years.

Åke E: son Lindman is Sweden's most experienced architectural photographer. He is acclaimed for his many books and works for both Swedish and international journals.

The headquarters of the United Nations is one of the world's best-known buildings – and perhaps the most important. The building is located in Manhattan, on the site of a former slaughterhouse. Architectural writer Mark Isitt has, together with photographer Åke E:son Lindman, gained unique access to this masterpiece of a building. In addition to the Security Council assembly room and the gleaming General Assembly, everything has been documented from Ban Ki-moon's office on the 38th floor of the Secretariat to the upholstery workshop in the chilly basement of the conference building. This is a depiction of this unique building’s architecture and creation.

Isitt is an award-winning architect critic at Swedish daily Göteborgs-Posten and has written about architecture and design in Swedish and international magazines for 25 years.

Åke E: son Lindman is Sweden's most experienced architectural photographer. He is acclaimed for his many books and works for both Swedish and international journals.

The headquarters of the United Nations is one of the world's best-known buildings – and perhaps the most important. The building is located in Manhattan, on the site of a former slaughterhouse. Architectural writer Mark Isitt has, together with photographer Åke E:son Lindman, gained unique access to this masterpiece of a building. In addition to the Security Council assembly room and the gleaming General Assembly, everything has been documented from Ban Ki-moon's office on the 38th floor of the Secretariat to the upholstery workshop in the chilly basement of the conference building. This is a depiction of this unique building’s architecture and creation.

Isitt is an award-winning architect critic at Swedish daily Göteborgs-Posten and has written about architecture and design in Swedish and international magazines for 25 years.

Åke E: son Lindman is Sweden's most experienced architectural photographer. He is acclaimed for his many books and works for both Swedish and international journals.