The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO was established on 7 April 1948. In 1962, construction began on a new headquarters building in Geneva. The building was opened in 1966.
The new headquarters building of the World Health Organization in Geneva was designed by the late Jean Tschumi, of Lausanne, and continued by his successor Pierre Bonnard. It was an 8-storey high concrete structure with the facades of a aluminium curtain wall type. The building was 150 metres long, 20 metres wide and 34 metres high and supported by 22 columns.
The great reception hall held eight elevators to distribute 982 employees of WHO to 550 standard offices on eight floors. The building also have two freight elevators and four documents elevators. The 22 pillars on which the eight floors rest are 13 metres apart and aligned in two rows eight metres apart.
The WHO library was open to all qualified medical workers, with free access to its 100,000 volumes. The library contained 2,700 scientific and medical periodicals and 30,000 titles on medicine and public health.
Details
- Date of Issue: 20 September 1966
- Date Withdrawn: 19 December 1966
- Date Invalidated:
- Designer: Michael Goaman
- Printer: Harrison and Sons Ltd, London
- Process: Lithography
- Paper:
- Watermark: Multiple St Edward’s Crown Block CA
- Perf: 14 (comb)
- Cylinders:
- 1A 1A 1A
- 1B 1B 1B
- Sheet: R5 x 10 (50)
- Quantity:
Subjects
- 11c
- 15c