UN City
Office in Copenhagen, Denmark From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The UN City (Danish: FN Byen) is located in Copenhagen, and consists of two campuses that combined house 11 United Nations agencies. The plans for a UN City in Copenhagen were born in 2002, and the location at Marmormolen was selected in 2005. Campus 1 on Marmormolen currently accommodates staff members from all 11 agencies. Campus 2, located by the container port, constitutes UNICEF's new state of the art high bay warehouse and is currently considered[by whom?] to be the world's largest non-food humanitarian warehouse. UN City currently accommodates 2000 employees[3] from 104 different countries, of which 1,700 employees are located in campus 1, making it the sixth largest UN campus measured by the number of staff.[4][5] The building was designed by Danish architecture firm 3XN,[6] totals 45,000 m2 office space and 7,000 m2 basement and was inaugurated on the 4th of July 2013 by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Her Majesty Margrethe II of Denmark.[7] The building is built with a large focus on sustainability and environmental friendliness, and the calculated energy consumption for the building is less than 50 kWh/m2/year.[6] The building has been awarded with the European Commission's Green Building Award for New Buildings and LEED's Platinum-certificate.[4] The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs[7] rents UN City to the UN through official development assistance funds.
| UN City | |
|---|---|
FN Byen | |
UN City, seen from south | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Office |
| Address | Marmormolen 51, 2100 |
| Town or city | Copenhagen |
| Country | Denmark |
| Coordinates | 55.704730°N 012.597564°E |
| Elevation | 3 m (10 ft) a.s.l. |
| Current tenants | United Nations |
| Groundbreaking | 2008 |
| Opened | 2013-02 |
| Inaugurated | 2013-07-04 |
| Cost | DKK 1,811,570,795.00 (May 2013)[1] |
| Owner | HARBOUR P/S (ATP Ejendomme)[2] |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 6 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architecture firm | 3xn |
| Website | |
| UN City in Copenhagen | |
Agencies represented
The following UN agencies are represented in UN City:[4]
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
- United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN WOMEN)
- World Food Program (WFP)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
The UN Live museum is also proposed to be headquartered on the site.
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