The building housing the Secretariat is to be improved because some nasty stuff has been going on:
It has water dripping through its roof, toxic asbestos lining its ceiling tiles, no sprinklers in case of fire and erratic heating and cooling systems, leading to friction with New York City authorities.
The building epitomizes what's inefficient about the organization. Its decision-making process leaks from a million holes punched by vetos and old-style consensus politics, it has close to no means of intervening in a crisis, the cooling can't cope with the hot air (read: nonsense) the Organization's watchers have to endure and it can't heat up and be ready for action until a disaster is already consummated.
Ban Ki Moon shouldn't be inconvenienced by the "inconvenience" of moving his overpaid staff to some other overpriced NYC space. Having the entire bureaucracy scattered might actually give him some breathing space to reform the blue-clad behemoth he has the onus of heading.
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