01Renovation of the Trusteeship Council Chamber
02Mogens Morgen, head of the Danish Heritage Agency
03UN Headquarters
04Reissue of a Juhl chair
05Michael Adlerstein
06The blueprint
07The chamber will be finished in 2013
08Sculptural ceiling and wood panelling
09Archive photo showing the democratic layout
10The Danes get to work
11Floor-to-ceiling windows
12Mogens Morgen
13Multicoloured lightboxes on the ceiling
Within the monolithic UN Headquarters there’s a chamber that is being restored to its former retro glory. It was originally designed by the Danish architect Finn Juhl and now, in a brave move, it’s being put back to exactly how it was in 1953.
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