The Energy Department’s sprawling headquarters in Washington that’s landed on “Brutalist” architecture tours of the nation’s capital has been mocked by conservatives for its lack of curb appeal.
“Here’s One Federal Building We Could—and Should—Scrap,” Victoria Coates with the Heritage Foundation wrote in a recent post.
The Trump administration this week partially delivered, starting the process of emptying the James V. Forrestal Building.
On Thursday evening, DOE staff learned from an agencywide email viewed by POLITICO’s E&E News that they will soon move from Forrestal, which the agency has occupied since 1977, to the Lyndon B. Johnson Building, now housing the Department of Education’s HQ and just off the National Mall. In addition, some Energy Department staff will head to the department’s Germantown, Maryland, complex and other locations.
