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After a career in bilateral diplomacy and frontline missions as well as multilateral diplomacy in Brussels, Ambassador Julian Braithwaite, freshly appointed Head of the UK Mission to the UN and other international organisations, is now settling in Geneva. He can count on an extensive experience and will lead a team of 50. During the induction phase, traveling to West Africa, he could see by himself how Geneva-based organisations were working in the field to fight against the Ebola outbreak.
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July 2015
What fragrance is associated in your mind with summer holidays?
The scent of pine and jacaranda.
Your first holiday memories?
Transatlantic ships in Genova harbour; and the emotion when they leave.
Your best holiday memories?
Beach family holidays in Italy. Notably the ride from the station to the hotel in a Fiat 500, three suitcases on the roof and four people squeezed inside, driver not included.
Your worst holiday memories?
Being sea sick.
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Matt Pollard is Senior Legal Adviser, UN Representative, Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers - International Commission of Jurists
July 2015
What fragrance is associated in your mind with summer holidays?
I am originally from the west coast of Canada, so for me the scent of summer is the sweet smell of pine trees baking in the hot sun, blended with the salty ocean breeze. I won't get back to Canada this summer but will be enjoying forest scents around Geneva!
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What fragrance is associated in your mind with summer holidays?
The smell of the oceans – hard to describe since water has no odour. But for me there is a distinct and soothing aroma. It must be the mixture of seaweed and sea life carried into the beach by the waves that have skimmed off bits and pieces and churned them into a fresh fragrance.
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October 2015
For the last 30 years, the Right Livelihood Award has been given to people who have demonstrated « outstanding vision and work on behalf of our planet and its people ».
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On 29 November 2015 at the Victoria Hall, Antoine Marguier will conduct the United Nations Orchestra and the invited cellist Camille Thomas. The concert will focus on Romantic music and composers Piotr Illitch Tchaïkovsky and Robert Schumann. Interview with this conductor who is also co-founder and art director at the United Nations Orchestra.
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A valid email address consists of an email prefix and an email domain, both in acceptable formats (abc@mail.com)
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Competing with Brussels to host the headquarters of the League of Nations after the First World War, Geneva played one of its strongest cards: the romantic beauty of its lakeside setting, facing Mont Blanc. Only the best would do for the Council of the League of Nations. The people of Geneva complied, though not without a tinge of regret. This first article describes the reasons and circumstances leading to the establishment of the international quarter in the district it occupies today.
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United Nations Archives at Geneva
By Joëlle Kuntz*
Translated by Viviane Lowe
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The imposing sandstone building by the lake known today as Palais Wilson, wich has served as the headquarters of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights since 1998, is the oft- revived corpse of an unlucky structure. Built between 1873 and 1875 by the Genevan architect Jacques-Elisée Goss (1839–1921), whose legacy includes the Geneva Opera, it was originally designed as a luxury hotel for wealthy Europeans touring the continent.
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This fourth article about the architecture of international organizations in Geneva examines the role of design competitions in the development of new architectural forms and building techniques. As of the 1960s, modernism had outgrown its early-twentieth-century timidity to become fully established. Le Corbusier’s protest over the rejection of his design for the Palace of Nations was instrumental in bringing about this change.
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This sixth article in the series on the architectural history of international organizations in Geneva considers the urban planning dilemma caused by the building of the Palace of Nations on the Ariana estate. A dilemma that was tackled, but never resolved, by several international architectural competitions occurring over the course of 50 years. A minimalist solution emerged only in 2000, after a final contest.
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This seventh article in the series on the architectural history of international organizations in Geneva focuses on the decision to locate the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) at the Place des Nations. It describes a first attempt to implement André Gutton’s proposal for the square, and the restrictions it imposed on both architects and users. Though more modest than originally planned, the ITU block and tower nonetheless contributed to the move toward modernism in Geneva’s international quarter.
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In a brochure presenting the new headquarters of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Alberto Camenzind, one of its three architects, explained that the urban landscape of his native Ticino is defined by its church steeples. Perched on a hill in the Morillons neighbourhood, the ILO would one day stand as “one of Geneva’s defining structures”, he added.(1) He was right.
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It may seem strange to devote a chapter of a book about the architectural history of Geneva's international quarter to the buildings of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) — given the absence of architecture they represent. However, this absence itself is symptomatic of the ICRC’s moral dimension. One would expect that the world’s largest humanitarian organization could exist only in modest, even temporary quarters, since its mission is rooted in the ideal of a world without war.
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The cluster of buildings on the Place des Nations that house the activities of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) embodies a slice of Geneva’s architectural history. Between the building of a first, austere office block, designed by Pierre Braillard, in 1961 and the inauguration of a lavish new conference room in 2014, construction techniques and architectural tastes have undergone a radical shift.
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Meteorology is forward-looking by nature. Its time horizon is the next hour, the next day, a week, a month, or even several years from now – in a word, the future. The tyranny of the future gives meteorologists a knack for sensing which direction the wind is blowing.