text: The Board of Architectural Consultants first met on May 23, at which time it considered a plan to create a single building ringing Federal Triangle rather than six to eight individual structures. As the Board of Architectural Consultants began its deliberations, the Commission on Fine Arts approved a plan to locate the Justice building on the north side of B Street NW between 7th and 9th Streets NW (where Center Market stood). About two weeks later, the Public Buildings Commission approved the single structure plan. This plan envisioned a central plaza (defined by 13th, 14th, B, and D Streets NW) surrounded by a traffic circle, with the buildings lining the exterior of the traffic circle. Few streets would be closed; rather, arches would connect each building to its neighbors (with only 12th Street NW remaining unbridged).
  The final design of Federal Triangle began to come together in June 1927. The Board of Architectural Consultants approved the construction of the Commerce and Internal Revenue structures as stand-alone buildings on the sites last proposed in late June. In July, the Board proposed eight buildings, sited as follows:
  Archives (surrounded by Interstate Commerce on the north, east, and south)
  Commerce (west side of 15th Street NW between B and D Streets NW)
  General Accounting (13th, 14th, B, and C Streets NW)
  Independent Offices (6th, 7th, and B Streets NW and Pennsylvania Avenue NW)
  Internal Revenue (B, 10th, 12th, and C Streets NW)
  Interstate Commerce (9th, 10th, and B Streets NW and Pennsylvania Avenue NW)
  Justice (7th, 9th, and B Streets NW and Pennsylvania Avenue NW)
  Labor (B, 13th, 14th, and C Streets NW)
  The Board did not address the future of the District Building, Old Post Office Pavilion, or Southern Railway Building, but had tentatively agreed to continue with the "Louvre plan" of a ring of buildings joined by arches.