SwissInfo:How is International Geneva shaping up?

 

International Geneva is an important hub for multilateralism. The Swiss government continues to promote and invest in it. But it’s changing and facing new challenges. We take a look in pictures and ask what it’s like to work there. Swissinfo article on the architecture of International Geneva, with a mix of commissioned and archive images, as well as a few quotes:

"Entering the Palais des Nations is a bit "Alice in Wonderland", says Henley

“Change is coming with the renovations, and I think like most other people, I am not particularly in favour,” says Henley.  “For UN staff who will have to move to a hot-desking and open plan set-up, they hate it. It doesn’t help that it’s an already outmoded idea. We don’t even mention how it's not good in a Covid context! ..."

Henley says his favourite building in International Geneva is probably the Palais des Nations, “although I quite like elements in other places - the Assembly Hall at the WHO [World Health Organization], or the monumental hallway at the ILO [International Labour Organization], and the padded cell/Gucci handbag interior of the new conference room at the WTO [World Trade Organization]”.

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This content was published on August 25, 2020 - 10:00