{"id":371608,"date":"2025-12-27T15:23:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/371608\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:23:04","slug":"fbi-to-move-out-of-brutalist-j-edgar-hoover-building-in-washington-dc-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/371608\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI to move out of brutalist J Edgar Hoover building in Washington DC | FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The FBI director, Kash Patel, said the law enforcement agency\u2019s sprawling but ageing J Edgar Hoover building <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/fbi-determines-headquarters-remain-dc-213711422.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Washington<\/a> DC will be closed down and the agency will move into already existing offices elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Some FBI workers will report to the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in the US capital to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/rubio-usaid-officially-ceases-operations-165738406.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">occupy the former offices<\/a> of the US Agency for International Development, which was controversially dismantled by the Trump administration earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cAfter more than 20 years of failed attempts, we finalized a plan to permanently <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/09\/lifestyle\/j-edgar-hoover-transformed-the-fbi-into-a-machine-of-law-and-order\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">close the FBI\u2019s Hoover headquarters<\/a> and move the workforce into a safe, modern facility,\u201d Patel posted to social media site X. \u201cThe Hoover Building will be shut down permanently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Patel added: \u201cThis decision puts resources where they belong: defending the homeland, crushing violent crime, and protecting national security. It delivers better tools for today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/fbi\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FBI<\/a> workforce at a fraction of the cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In November, leaders in Maryland sued the Trump administration after it <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/maryland\/2025\/11\/maryland-lawsuit-trump-adminstration-fbi-headquarters\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scrapped plans to move the bureau\u2019s headquarters to the state<\/a>. The lawsuit pointed out that Congress had already appropriated funds for the relocation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The brutalist J Edgar Hoover building was <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/dc\/2024\/06\/dcs-brutalist-buildings-showcased-at-the-national-building-museum\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">designed<\/a> in the 1960s, when it was also conceived and constructed. It was often criticized for breaking with the style of other federal buildings. Former FBI head Hoover himself once called it \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsd.harvard.edu\/2020\/09\/ugliest-building-in-washington\/#:~:text=A%20singular%20exception%20to%20this,by%20the%20building&#039;s%20Brutalist%20design.\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the greatest monstrosity ever constructed in the history of Washington<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FBI director, Kash Patel, said the law enforcement agency\u2019s sprawling but ageing J Edgar Hoover building in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-371608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}