Round 5: 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 for this organization with purposely exposed air vents in its unfinished ceiling. Marcel Breuer co-designed a building for this organization as a “three-pointed star.” This organization hired a team led by Wallace Harrison to design a skyscraper with two marble (15[1])walls and two (*) glass curtain walls as its facade. (10[1])That team working for this organization included architects from ten countries and chose an International Style (10[1])proposal by Oscar Niemeyer and Le (10[1])Corbusier. A sculpture of a knotted gun sits outside this organization’s headquarters in Turtle Bay. For 10 points, what organization commissioned New York’s Secretariat Building and the Dag Hammarskjöld Library? ■END■

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