Headquarters, United States Army Form

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6.5 million square feet of floor space and 17.5 miles of corridors full of about 26 000 personnel making it the world's largest office building and one of the most important in terms of our nation's defense but how did such a massive building come to be and why the five-sided shape to find out we're looking back early in 1941 the department of war worked out of a few separate smaller spaces on the national mall with the u.s growing closer to join joining world war ii the size of the department and the need for space grew some people got to talking and after the request for more space was approved they developed a plan the first potential location was arlington farms which was surrounded by five roads so the initial designs took on a five-sided shape to fit the space but soon president roosevelt decided to move the project to the site near hoover airport instead to save costs on redesign they merely modified the five-sided building plans that were already created and after a short 16 mo