Something about the Pentagon
Here are some interestig facts about the Pentagon (Arlington, Virginia) the symbol of the US military. Thanks Wikipedia (references below). It is the world's largest office building by floor area, with about 6,500,000 sq ft (600,000 m 2 ), of which 3,700,000 sq ft (340,000 m 2 ) are used as offices . Approximately 28,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the Pentagon. The site originally chosen was Arlington Farms which had a roughly pentagonal shape, so the building was planned accordingly as an irregular pentagon. Concerned that the new building could obstruct the view of Washington, D.C. from Arlington Cemetery, President Roosevelt ended up selecting the Hoover Airport site instead. The building retained its pentagonal layout because a major redesign at that stage would have been costly, and Roosevelt liked the design. Freed of the constraints of the asymmetric Arlington Farms site, it was mo...