US EditionTrump’s East Wing Ballroom and Obama’s Presidential Center – Dr. Rich SwierClick to Open the Search Input fieldScroll to Top
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Donald Trump's ballroom project not only meets with approval within his government. In fact, White House employees are supposed to have secretly mocked the US presidents and given the ballroom a tasteless nickname.
With a new ballroom in the White House, the US president plans to create a festive space for around 999 guests. The architecture reflects Trump's preference for classical and traditional architecture over modernist designs for public buildings.
In the middle of the shutdown, Donald Trump launched a pharaonic project: the construction of a ballroom of 8,000 m2 for 250 million dollars in the heart of the White House. Between heritage ambition and a taste for prestige, the building president divided America and irritated the Democrats.
Gold, concrete and gigantism: Donald Trump has made the world's most famous headquarters a major building site. However, the demolition of the east wing is only part of several transformations with which the president shapes the White House into the stage of his power.
Trump’s East Wing Ballroom and Obama’s Presidential Center – Dr. Rich SwierClick to open the search input fieldScroll to top
There’s an interesting juxtaposition of these two building projects: President Trump champions a neo-Classical ballroom and Obama is delayed on his presidential center “Death Star.” Ross Douthat, in a column titled: “Better Trump’s Ballroom than Obama’s Tower”: The controversial public building is ugly and intimidating, architectural vainglory battening on presidential ego, inappropriate to its setting, unmoored from memory and tradition. I’m tal
Joy Reid calls for Mar-a-Lago to become 'Black LGBTQ Museum' in response to Trump's White House demolition
In a fiery critique of President Donald Trump’s controversial demolition of the White House’s East Wing, former MSNBC anchor Joy Reid has proposed a radical transformation of Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago - suggesting it be repurposed as a museum dedicated to Black, LGBTQ, women’s, AAPI, and immigrant history.Reid’s comments, made in a post on the social platform Bluesky, were part of a broader condemnation of Trump’s recent decision to raz…
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