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[h=1]The FBI’s headquarters is falling apart. Why is it so hard for America to build a new one?[/h]
A damaged wall surrounding the exterior of the J. Edgar Hoover Building. Many repairs go unmade as the bureau looks for a new headquarters, but a move is years away. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
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Beneath the headquarters of America’s premier crime-fighting organization, one of the parking ramps has been condemned because corroded pieces of the ceiling were falling on cars.
Netting hangs on the Ninth Street facade to prevent broken concrete from hitting passersby 160 feet down on the sidewalk below. During a July fire drill, half of the building’s alarms didn’t go off.
For more than a decade, leaders at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have warned that the bureau needed to replace the J. Edgar Hoover Building, a concrete fortress designed as a symbol of strength that has instead come to serve as a lesson in government inaction
Read more at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...is-it-so-hard-for-america-to-build-a-new-one/
A damaged wall surrounding the exterior of the J. Edgar Hoover Building. Many repairs go unmade as the bureau looks for a new headquarters, but a move is years away. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
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Beneath the headquarters of America’s premier crime-fighting organization, one of the parking ramps has been condemned because corroded pieces of the ceiling were falling on cars.
Netting hangs on the Ninth Street facade to prevent broken concrete from hitting passersby 160 feet down on the sidewalk below. During a July fire drill, half of the building’s alarms didn’t go off.
For more than a decade, leaders at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have warned that the bureau needed to replace the J. Edgar Hoover Building, a concrete fortress designed as a symbol of strength that has instead come to serve as a lesson in government inaction
Read more at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...is-it-so-hard-for-america-to-build-a-new-one/
