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Inaugurated
on 3 November 1958, the Headquarters of UNESCO is the most international
building in Paris both in terms of the membership of the Organization
it houses, currently standing at 186 Member States (1 July 1997) and
in terms of its construction, for it is the combined work of architects
of three nationalities : Marcel Breuer of the United States of
America, Pier Luigi Nervi of Italy and Bernard Zehrfuss
of France ; selected by an International Committee of five : Lucio
Costa of Brazil, Walter Gropius of the United States of America,
Charles Le Corbusier of France, Sven Markelius of Sweden
and Ernesto Rogers of Italy ; the American architect, Eero Saarinen
was also consulted and Eugene E. Callison, an American engineer
directed the construction site.
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