GaME NIGHT AT
THE UNITED NATIONS

The United Nations Headquarters in New York was designed as a mini-city unto itself. The Headquarters were built on a site in midtown Manhattan, thanks to a donation from American industrialist John D. Rockefeller.

The building was the result of work undertaken by international architects, including Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, who designed a complex where delegates could meet and debate the pressing issues of the day.

Among the facilities provided at UN Headquarters were a barber, a delegates dining room, a meditation room, a press bar, a shoe shine, and a chess room. Photos of these facilities are reproduced in International Territory by photographer Adam Bartos with a curatorial essay by Christopher Hitchens.

One wonders what Hitchens would have made of the board and card games that have sprung up around the United Nations and its Security Council, from the relatively benign Game of Flags to the more sinister Game of World Domination.