Packet 6: Tossup 8

Frank Lloyd Wright derided a building made for this organization as a “deadpan box with no expression of” its nature. Sven Markelius designed a chamber (-5[1])for this organization with purposely exposed air vents in its unfinished ceiling. Marcel Breuer (15[1])co-designed a building (-5[1])for this organization as a (15[1])“three-pointed star.” (-5[1])This organization hired a team led by Wallace Harrison (15[1])to design (15[1])a skyscraper with two marble (15[1])walls and two (*) glass curtain (10[1])walls (10[1])as its (10[1])facade. (10[2])That team working for this organization included architects from ten countries (10[1])and chose (10[1])an International (10[1])Style (10[2])proposal (10[1])by (10[1])Oscar (10[2])Niemeyer (10[3]-5[1])and (10[1]-5[1])Le (10[1])Corbusier. (10[5]-5[1])A sculpture (10[1])of a knotted (10[1])gun sits outside (10[1])this organization’s (10[1])headquarters (10[1])in Turtle (10[1])Bay. For 10 points, what organization commissioned New York’s Secretariat Building and the (10[1])Dag (10[1])Hammarskjöld (10[1])Library? (10[2])■END■ (10[3])

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