The United Nations Headquarters, located in New York City, consists of several structures, including the Secretariat, Conference, and General Assembly buildings and the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. The headquarters holds the seats of the principal organs of the UN, including the General Assembly and the Security Council.[1]
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The United Nations Headquarters is featured in Take Me to Your Leader.
An eerie glow at the sub basements.
It was introduced in 2 days after people when the complex once welcomed leaders from almost 200 member countries with the flags arranged alphabetically from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe still flutter along First Avenue. The 39 story Secretariat Building looms over the General Assembly Building where all the 1,800 seats are empty. In the vast subbasements of the complex, an eerie glow still filters through the hallways and offices. The glowing and dark markers guided workers safely out of the building during the 2003 Northeast Blackout that darkened New York City and they owe their glow to a substance called strontium oxide aluminate which is expose to light that cause the electrons to push to a higher energy state. In the dark, it lose energy, giving it off in wavelengths of greenish yellow light. Steven S. Ross stated that the emergency lighting takes its energy from the building lights and once it goes off, it'll have an eerie glow. However, the markers can only glow for up to 20 hours and with no electric lights to recharge it, the vast labyrinth would soon join the rest of the city and the world in total darkness.
The General Assembly Building after 175 years, as the dome begins to crumble.
In 175 yeas after people, the General Assembly Chamber is long ago out of session and is about to adjourn permanently. Steven S. Ross stated that the General Assembly Building is a steel and concrete structure with a very irregular roof causing the roof beams to span a very wide area and at any time with a large space enclosed with no interior columns, it'll have a failure point. The area is the chatter of dozens of languages was once heard and after 175 years after people, it requires no translation at all as the dome of the General Assembly Building collapses into the chambers.
The Secretariat Building after 175 years.
Meanwhile, the General Assembly Building is outlasted by the 39 story Secretariat Building but just barely because the steel curtain frame is a teetering rusted skeleton. Despite a deep foundation and a heavy duty steel & concrete base, the Secretariat Building was built on filled in land reclaimed from the East River. Steven S. Ross stated that the problem is that there are areas of the sub basements are below the level of the waterline and because the lower levels would flood, it expose the steel framework to brackish saltwater while Travis Taylor stated that there'll be major motions of water slamming into it continuously. Steven S. Ross ultimately stated that the saltwater itself could cause enough corrosion to bring the building down all at once. After 175 years without people, the Secretariat Tower to collapse and crushing the adjacent Conference Building before slamming into the East River.
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