NATO headquarters

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is headquartered in a complex in Haren, part of the City of Brussels municipality of Belgium.[1] The staff at the headquarters is composed of national delegations of NATO member states and includes civilian and military liaison offices and officers or diplomatic missions and diplomats of partner countries, as well as the International Staff (IS) and International Military Staff (IMS) filled from serving members of the armed forces of member states.[2] Non-governmental citizens' groups have also grown up in support of NATO, broadly under the banner of the Atlantic Council/Atlantic Treaty Association movement.

This article is about NATO's political seat. For the military headquarters that commands NATO's operations by means of controlling Allied Command Operations, see Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe.
NATO Headquarters
Aerial view
General information
TypeOffice, conference building
AddressBoulevard Léopold III / Leopold III-laan
Town or cityB-1110 Haren, City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region
CountryBelgium
Coordinates50°52′45″N 4°25′30″E
OwnerNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Premises

1949-1967: Paris
The A-shaped (denoting 'Allies') building in Porte Dauphine, Paris, which originally housed NATO headquarters, and presently houses Paris Dauphine University

Old Brussels headquarters

Problems in the original building stemmed from its hurried construction in 1967, when NATO was forced to move its headquarters from Porte Dauphine in Paris, France following the French withdrawal.[3][4]

New Brussels headquarters

A new €750 million headquarters building was constructed over the period between 2010 and summer 2016,[5] and was dedicated on 25 May 2017 with a ceremony in the presence of allied Heads of State. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg addressed the crowd, while then-US President Donald Trump hectored some among the crowd over their failure to live up to the 2% GDP target that was expected of them by their senior partner.[6]

The cost of the new headquarters building escalated to about €1.1 billion[7] or $1.23 billion.[8]

The 250,000 square metres (2,700,000 sq ft) complex was designed by an international design consortium led by the US Firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, including Jo Palma. Both Design and Construction were completed under the auspices of the Belgian Ministry of Defense's Project Management Team led by Colonel Christian LaNotte, Belgian Army Engineers. Project Financing and Requirements definition as well as the Design and Construction Phases were overseen for NATO by its HQ Project Office, led by Donald Hutchins (CAPT, US Navy Civil Engineer Corps, Retired) during the design Phase and Brigadier General Anthony Carruth, (British Army Engineer, Retired) during construction. The New NATO HQ Project is office and home to an international staff of 3800.[9]

  • Aerial view
    Aerial view
  • Exterior view from Boulevard Léopold III/Leopold III-laan
    Exterior view from Boulevard Léopold III/Leopold III-laan
  • Flags of member states waving at the entrance
    Flags of member states waving at the entrance
  • Reconstructed section of the Berlin Wall at the entrance
    Reconstructed section of the Berlin Wall at the entrance
  • Interior view
    Interior view
  • Coat of arms
    Coat of arms

See also

Notes
  1. "NATO homepage". Retrieved 12 March 2006.
  2. "NATO Headquarters". Nato.int. 10 August 2010. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
  3. Collins 2011, p. 26.
  4. Le Blévennec, François (August 2007). "The Big Move". NATO Review. Archived from the original on September 11, 2007. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
  5. Mayo, Virginia (13 November 2014). "NATO shows off its new HQ-to-be". Associated Press. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  6. "Watch: President Trump's speech at NATO HQ". CBS News. 25 May 2017.
  7. NATO (February 2017). "New NATO HQ" (PDF). www.nato.int. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  8. Daniel Halper (25 May 2017). "New NATO Headquarters Cost $1.23 Billion". The Washington Free Beacon. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  9. "NATO's new headquarters". NATO. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 23 May 2017.

References
  • Collins, Brian J. (2011). Nato: A Guide to the Issues. Santa Barbara, Calif: Praeger. ISBN 978-0-313-35491-5.
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