US EditionWhite House files most detailed plans yet for Trump ballroom, East Wing renovation
The modernization project aims to improve security and event logistics with a 90,000-square-foot ballroom and offices, despite ongoing legal and preservation challenges.
- The White House this week submitted its most detailed East Wing plans, including new renderings, for a nearly 90,000-square-foot ballroom expansion.
- After experts reviewed the structure, officials said the East Wing's limitations made preservation infeasible, and its October demolition sparked outcry for lacking typical reviews and public comment.
- Contractors said they stabilized sections, kept heavy equipment distant, removed pieces by hand, and monitored vibrations while curators documented and preserved historic artifacts for integration.
- The National Capital Planning Commission will evaluate the plans at a March 5 hearing as the National Trust for Historic Preservation has sued to halt construction.
- Engineers are now studying whether the West Colonnade can support a second story to create symmetry with the East Colonnade, and curators plan to integrate preserved historic elements.
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Trump files final plans for White House ballroom
President Donald Trump on Friday submitted a final plan for his new White House ballroom to the National Capital Planning Commission, moving forward with a fast-tracked process to construct a building much larger than the White House’s Executive Mansion and West Wing combined.
Architect submits most-detailed renderings so far for White House ballroom
The most-detailed renderings yet of President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project were briefly made available Friday, showing the massive scale of the planned 89,000-square-foot space.
WH 'Excellently Preserved' as East Wing Was Destroyed
The White House mansion's eastern facade appears to have been "excellently preserved" when demolition crews tore down the East Wing to make way for President Trump's planned ballroom, an administration official said in a memo made public on Friday. Contractors took pains to protect the White House residence during demolition,...
New renderings offer dramatic look at Trump's massive White House ballroom
New images released Friday offer the clearest look yet at President Donald Trump’s proposed White House ballroom addition, a sweeping project that would mark the most significant change to the White House grounds in decades – even as it faces legal challenges and increasing criticism on Capitol Hill...
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