Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Federal Triangle, Washington, DC, USA, with an area of ​​944 849 square meters, according to the Pentagon 's second largest building of the U.S. government and its first building for both public and private use. It is a member of the World Trade Centers Association ( WTCA ) in New York to the global network of about 300 WTC in 100 countries.

It is 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue in the north- west of the city, where the Metrorail station is Federal Triangle. Numerous organizations, business enterprises with global orientation and federal (United States Agency for International Development, United States Customs and Border Protection and United States Border Patrol, Department of Homeland Security of the United States, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and many more) have their headquarters or have offices in the building complex. There also trade shows, conventions, cultural events, charity balls, concerts, as well as larger private festivities are organized.

The building, begun in 1920 completed the building of the " Federal Triangle " of the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue and was constructed under the direction of James Ingo Freed ( architects Pei, Cobb, Freed and Partners ) and Ellerbe Becket. After a construction period of eight years, from 1990 to 1998, the building was handed over to four years later than originally planned on 5 May 1998 by President Bill Clinton his determination. It was the most expensive building in the United States (818 million U.S. dollars). In Congress and Conference Centre 1200 annual events.

Administrator is the General Services Administration (GSA ). The building was named after the 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan, was planned in whose tenure the building. Every year about one million tourists the building. The connected car park is the largest of the city.