Name: The Pentagon
Architect: George
Bergstrom
Shape: Pentagon
Location: Arlington, Virginia
Materials: Concrete and stone
Date of
construction:
They laid the first stone on 9/11/1941; the construction lasted only 16 months.
Interesting
facts:
·
Headquarters of the US Department of Defense, with capacity for 25,000
people, is the largest office building in the world.
o
It has five facades of 280 meters.
o
Five floors high (plus two
underground) connected by another 10 in the form of radio that connect them.
·
Although there are 28.16 km of corridors, it only takes a maximum of
seven minutes to walk between any two points of the building.
·
In his sixth anniversary (11/9/2001) a terrorist attack happened. American
Airlines Flight 77 was kidnapped and the terrorists crush in The Pentagon.
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