here we go
Over the weekend, they brainstormed on a design. Despite the height restriction, they needed more than twice the office space of the Empire State Building. They considered a square, a rectangle, even an octagon.
"You have to visualize that here's a city of 40,000 people who don't go by car from house to house, but just by foot within the structure," Casey said. "So we finally came up with what turned out to be a group of concentric and interconnected five sided structures."
The designers borrowed a shape used by fortresses for centuries -- a pentagon. The five-shaped also fit well with the existing road network at Arlington Farms.
The exhausted team presented the plan to Somervell Monday morning. Marshall approved it that afternoon, and three days later, Roosevelt gave a preliminary okay.
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