High Commissioner's Residence and Government House, Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, Jerusalem

The UNTSO headquarters or as it was known “The British High Commissioner's Residence and Government House”, is one of the most elegant and monumental buildings in modern Israel. Architects and scholars also view it as one of the most successful 20th century buildings. It demonstrates a marvelous encounter between the architect Austen St. Barbe Harrison, who was inspired by regional building traditions, and the colonial ideology of the British Empire. Harrison succeeded in producing precise modern architecture with a local air, a building that looked both to the past and the future. (A colonial room with a view of Jerusalem).