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The Dag Hammarskjöld Library is a library on the grounds of the headquarters of the United Nations, located in the Turtle Bay/East Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is connected to the Secretariat and Conference buildings through ground level and underground corridors.
The green rectangle is the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, the purple rectangle is the Secretariat, the blue trapezoid is the Conference Building, and the grey shape is the General Assembly Building. While the United Nations had dreamed of constructing an independent city for its new world capital, multiple obstacles soon forced the organization to ...
The United Nations Digital Library is a primary bibliographic database of the United Nations established in 1979. It consists of the official documents and publications produced the UN System. It is managed and developed by the Dag Hammarskjold Library.
Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died in 1961. But questions surrounding his tragic passing in a plane crash, and his ...
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (English: / ˈ h æ m ər ʃ ʊ l d / HAM-ər-shuuld, [1] Swedish: [ˈdɑːɡ ˈhâmːarˌɧœld] ⓘ; 29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961 ...
Under the tenure of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, the General Assembly Building also began hosting concerts on United Nations Day and other special occasions; [169] the first such concert took place on United Nations Day in 1954. [170] The UN dedicated Peter Colfs's Triumph of Peace tapestry at the building that October.
Dag Hammarskjöld at Elisabethville airport, Katanga, August 1960 (Courtesy Hachette Book Group) (UN Photo/x/) The son of Sweden’s former prime minister, Hammarskjöld, grew up in a pink castle.
View of the building from the southwest, with the Dag Hammarskjöld Library in the foreground. The building is designed as a rectangular slab measuring 72 by 287 ft (22 by 87 m), [a] with the longer axis oriented north–south. [31] [32] The Secretariat's architects wanted to design the massing as a slab without any setbacks.