dChan - Q Origins Project Archive

I figure it's an intelligence agency remodel… CIA? FBI? NSA?

The wave of Modernist and Brutalist government office buildings that arose in the 1960s and 70s left a lasting impression on the American architectural landscape. At their best, these structures aspire to lofty heights. See, for example, the Chicago Federal Center. But occasionally, those aspirations for landmark civic architecture were curtailed by fiscal realities, a need for expediency, or the desire to achieve a level of standardization.

However, recent efforts by the General Services Administration (GSA) to shrink the government’s spatial footprint have effectively created an opportunity to renovate aging federal real estate. With planning and design cues borrowed from the private sector, those renovations are creating federal office buildings that are not only more efficient but also more in line with the needs of contemporary government workers.

Case in point: our recent in-place renovation of a suburban Maryland facility occupied by a confidential government agency. What was a 1970s E-plan building marked by dead-end hallways and a lack of a central gathering area today stands as a modern, high-performance work setting designed for the human experience.

The project—a consolidation of several divisions within the agency—also stands as a cultural shift for the 4,000 people who now work in the 1.5 million-square-foot building. No longer do staffers spend the bulk of their days sitting at their desks, siloed in their departments and limiting their gatherings to formal meetings. Thanks to the new building design, the agency now offers a culture of mobility, spontaneity and collaboration.

http://www.gensleron.com/work/2016/12/8/a-federal-workplace-with-heart-and-soul.html