Editing J. Edgar Hoover Building (section)

{{Short description|FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.}}
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| current_tenants  = [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]
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| address          = 935 [[Pennsylvania Avenue|Pennsylvania Avenue NW]], [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
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| start_date       = March 1965
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| architecture_firm = [[Charles F. Murphy and Associates]]<br>Stanislaw Zbigniew Gladych,Chief Designer
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The '''J. Edgar Hoover Building''' is a low-rise [[Office#Office buildings|office building]] located at 935 [[Pennsylvania Avenue|Pennsylvania Avenue NW]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], in the [[United States]]. It is the headquarters of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI). 

Planning for the building began in 1962, and a site was formally selected in January 1963. Design work, focusing on avoiding the blocky, monolithic structure typical of most federal architecture at the time, began in 1963 and was largely complete by 1964, though final approval did not occur until 1967. Land clearance and excavation of the foundation began in March 1965; delays in obtaining congressional funding meant that only the three-story substructure was complete by 1970. Work on the superstructure began in May 1971. These delays meant that the cost of the project grew from $60 million to $126.108 million. Construction finished in September 1975, and [[President of the United States|President]] [[Gerald Ford]] dedicated the structure on September 30, 1975.

The building is named after former [[Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI director]] [[J. Edgar Hoover]]. President [[Richard Nixon]] directed federal agencies to refer to the structure as the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building on May 4, 1972, two days after Hoover's death, but the order did not have the force of law. The [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] enacted legislation formally naming the structure on October 14, 1972, and President Nixon signed it on October 30.

The J. Edgar Hoover Building has {{convert|2800876|sqft|0}} of internal space, numerous amenities, and a special, secure system of elevators and corridors to keep public tours separate from the rest of the building. The building has three floors below-ground, and an underground parking garage. The structure is eight stories high on the Pennsylvania Avenue NW side, and 11 stories high on the E Street NW side. Two wings connect the two main buildings, forming an open-air, trapezoidal courtyard. The exterior is buff-colored precast and cast-in-place concrete with repetitive, square, bronze-tinted windows set deep in concrete frames.

Critical reaction to the J. Edgar Hoover Building ranged from strong praise to strong disapproval when it opened.<ref name=lmtopn>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=g4FfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gTAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3308%2C2752203 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho) |agency=(Washington Post) |last=Von Eckardt |first=Wolf |title=America's monument to the FBI |date=August 10, 1975 |page=5A}}</ref> More recently, it has been widely condemned on aesthetic and urban planning grounds.<ref>{{Cite news |title= Everyone Hates the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover Building. Here's Why Everyone's Completely Wrong|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-30/in-defense-of-brutalism-the-fbi-building-and-ugly-architecture |access-date=2022-02-28 |newspaper=Bloomberg.com|date=July 30, 2014 }}</ref>

Plans have been made to relocate the FBI's headquarters elsewhere, but those plans were abandoned in 2017 due to a lack of funding for a new headquarters building.<ref name=FBIstayingDC>{{cite web|url=http://fortune.com/2017/07/11/fbi-headquarters-washington-dc-hoover-building/|title=The FBI Headquarters Is No Longer Moving States|date=July 11, 2017|author=The Associated Press|access-date=February 4, 2019|publisher=Fortune}}</ref><ref name=LosersAllRound/>