National Trust Calls For Halting Of East Wing Demolition, Warns Trump's New Structure Will "Overwhelm The White House

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Trump administration’s demolition of the East Wing of the White House has raised alarms among architecture and preservation groups, not just for the lack of public review but about the proposed 90,000-square-foot ballroom that is proposed to replace it.

On Tuesday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation weighed in, calling on work to stop on the demolition, although there may not be much left of the East Wing, which has housed offices of the first lady and social secretary and is the entry point for most White House visitors and tourists.

“We acknowledge the utility of a larger meeting space at the White House, but we are deeply concerned that the massing and height of the proposed new construction will overwhelm the White House itself — it is 55,000 square feet — and may also permanently disrupt the carefully balanced classical design of the White House with its two smaller, and lower, East and West Wings,” Carol Quillen, president and CEO of the National Trust, wrote in a letter to the National Capital Planning Commission, the National Park Service, and the Commission of Fine Arts.

Quillen wrote that the demolition should stop so that the ballroom could go through the “legally required public review process,” which includes the National Capital Planning Commission and the Commission of Fine Arts, as well as to gather commit from the public.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ballroom-backlash-national-trust-calls-144610419.html

[herding cats]

1. This seems quaint and at least 3 months too late.

The east wing is, as I type this, already gone. Not that he would have stopped, but it's way too late for such now.

[Klarkashton]

2. Polite legal shit doesn't work anymore..

Not when there is a criminal president.

[highplainsdem]

3. Trump's most likely response to people saying the ballroom will overwhelm the White House will be

to say the White House needs to be larger. He probably has plans drawn up.

[Ilsa]

4. I'm sure the orange menace intended the

new gaudy trump ballroom to be the first physical impression people get. He has no taste, and neither does the architect (did he use one?) that proposed this monstrosity.