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The J. Edgar Hoover Building, the crumbling and soon-to-be replaced headquarters to the FBI, has been unceremoniously named the 'ugliest building in America.'
The 2.4million square foot concrete monstrosity in the nation's capital of Washington DC received the distinction from Buildworld, a British-based building supplies outlet.
Buildworld's rankings were determined by a sentiment analysis tool called HuggingFace that analyzed tweets about a various buildings that the company placed on a list.
The Hoover Building, dedicated in 1975 and named for the first-ever FBI director, was described as having 'a certain Minecraft-y charm about the blocky brutalist monolith' but now only 'evokes the worst of 20th-century politics and the 21st-century surveillance state.'
The J. Edgar Hoover Building, headquarters to the FBI, has been unceremoniously named the 'ugliest building in America'
The company found that over 37 percent of tweets about the Hoover Building's design were deemed negative.
Despite being named tops in America, the building only finished second in Buildworld's rankings of ugliest buildings in the world, 'losing' out to the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh.
Currently, the FBI is determining where to build its new headquarters, having spent years trying to nail down a site.
In 2016, current and former FBI agents and officials interviewed said they don't think Hoover's name should embellish the new structure because the some of the former FBI director's policies violated the law and constitutional rights.
Then-Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont wrote a letter to the GSA urging the agency 'not to take steps to transfer' Hoover's name onto the new headquarters.
An FBI spokesperson told the news channel the naming of the proposed new headquarters will ultimately be left up to Congress, and that the issue has so far
