The Pentagon is the office building of the US Department of Defense. It is located in Arlington County, Virginia, southwest of Washington. Named after a pentagonal building, it is the largest single administrative building in the world. Arlington, located on the Potomac River in the southwest of Washington, D.C., is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, the highest military command organ in the United States.
The Pentagon was designed by American architect George Bogestrom (1876-1955) and built by john mcshane, an architect from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pentagon1941September1kloc-0/groundbreaking,19431October 65438+5 completion. The project leader is General Brehon Somervell, and Colonel Leslie Groves, as the military leader, supervised the whole construction process.
The Pentagon is the largest single office building in the world, with a total construction area of 6.5 million square feet (604,000 square meters), including 3.7 million square feet (344,000 square meters) of office space. About 23,000 military and civilian personnel work in the Pentagon, and about 3,000 non-defense volunteers serve in the Pentagon. The Pentagon has five facades, and the building is divided into five floors (including two underground floors). Each floor has five circular corridors from the inside out, with a total length of 17.5 miles (28.2 kilometers).
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