Reflecting wide geographical representation, the Advisory Board comprises experts in the field of architecture, sustainable technology, construction, historic preservation, real estate development and urban design. They will provide the necessary level of technical supervision over the project.

The completion of the UN Headquarters renovation is scheduled for 2013. Until such time conference rooms and the offices of Secretary-General and General Assembly Chairman will relocate to a new temporary building (which opened on January 11th 2010) providing swing space for UN Headquarters facilities. Most of the Secretariat staff were relocated to office facilities in Manhattan.

Stefan Kuryłowicz is a graduate of Architecture Faculty of Warsaw University of Technology who received his Ph.D. in 1990 and post-doctoral degree in 2001. He is the head and the main designer of Kuryłowicz & Associates Architecture Studio as well as the author of commercial, office and industrial buildings, and the architect of a number of residential and housing estates. He received numerous awards for design and production schemes. In 1998 he was also awarded the Prize of the year by the Union of Polish Architects SARP.

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