Geneva - International Labor Office

(Local Name: Bureau International du Travail) In Geneva to the south of the World Health Organization, on a previously undeveloped site at Le Grand Morillon, rises the new headquarters of the International Labor Office (Bureau International du Travail ILO/BIT: 1969-73) Designed by Beaudouin, Camenzind and Nervi, this has an 11-story main building 190 m/623ft long and 60 m/197ft high on a biconcave ground plan borne on two supporting blocks (in the north one various services, in the south one conference rooms and the library). The outer walls (4,000 windows) are of aluminum and glass, on a framework of steel and concrete. The building has some 2,500 telephone extensions, facilities for simultaneous interpretation, 23 passenger and seven goods elevators, a system for the transmission of documents within the office and a four-story underground garage for 1,450 cars.