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2008-05-09 International-UN-NGOs

UN breaks ground on intentionally 'ugly' temporary headquarters

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Posted by ryuge 2008-05-09 06:56|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 LOL This image really put the squeeze on the first paragraph. It didn't look quite like this in the preview, nor does it here on the comment page.

Posted by ryuge 2008-05-09 07:04|| 2008-05-09 07:04|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm sure they're temporary, like the temporary buildings constructed during the Second World War that still populate many of our military bases today.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-05-09 08:57|| 2008-05-09 08:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Wow! Thanks for the quick fix. It now looks mah-velous -- unlike the Costco of Diplomacy evidently.

Posted by ryuge 2008-05-09 08:59|| 2008-05-09 08:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Couldn't they find a big surplus circus tent?

Posted by tu3031 2008-05-09 09:19|| 2008-05-09 09:19|| Front Page Top

#5 It makes perfect sense. The UN itself is intentionally ugly. Why shouldn't the building reflect that?

Posted by Mike 2008-05-09 09:19|| 2008-05-09 09:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Should have put it on a barge in the East River. Then we could have cut them loose.

Posted by Darrell 2008-05-09 11:34|| 2008-05-09 11:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Isn't there some open space in Brussels, or Darfur, or Pyongyang, or ... anyplace but here?

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-05-09 12:49|| 2008-05-09 12:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Heck, make it permanent. That way you know that any meetings there had a purpose.

Posted by gorb 2008-05-09 14:26|| 2008-05-09 14:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Is there any end to the abuses the New Yorkers will put up with from this organization?

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-05-09 15:29|| 2008-05-09 15:29|| Front Page Top

#10 The demolition contract has been let to the USAF weapons teast unit at Eglin AFB

Posted by Cheadrehead 2008-05-09 17:24|| 2008-05-09 17:24|| Front Page Top

#11 I remember hearing about a woman in Chicago that found the John Hancock building so ulgy that she lived there so she would not have to look at it.

Posted by Cheadrehead 2008-05-09 17:26|| 2008-05-09 17:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Isn't there some open space in Brussels, or Darfur, or Pyongyang...

There's an impressive high-rise in Pyongyang that needs just a wee bit of work to finish. I think it would be perfect for the UN as a permanent new home.

Posted by xbalanke 2008-05-09 17:54|| 2008-05-09 17:54|| Front Page Top

#13 OZZY > SHHHHAAAAAAAARRRRRRRROOOOONNNNNN [Sharon]!
"It was 'orrible, luv, I dreamt you were FLORENCE HENDERSON"!

God' ole OZZY - right on the money!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-05-09 21:18|| 2008-05-09 21:18|| Front Page Top

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