Article: Who is Trump's White House architect James McCrery?

[canetoad]

After an announcement last Thursday that US president Donald Trump will build a 650-person banquet hall on the east side of the White House complex, we take a closer look at James McCrery, the architect behind the design.

McCrery's eponymous studio, McCrery Architects, has been selected to design the 90,000-square-foot ballroom addition, which will replace the White House's East Wing and expand the building's hosting capabilities.

Catholic Architect Selected as Designer of White House Ballroom
‘New traditionalist’ designer of churches James McCrery has been chosen for the new project.⤵️https://t.co/y12dGtqnj0
— National Catholic Register (@NCRegister) August 5, 2025

The architect was seen surveying the roof of the White House with Trump on Tuesday morning ahead of the renovation of the early 19th-century neoclassical structure, set to be the most intensive since the 1950s.

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/08/06/trumps-white-house-architect-james-mccrery/

[Captain Zero]

1. Fucker McFucker

Let's put a Haitian curse on him.

[leftstreet]

2. Their wesbite is...sparse

https://www.mccreryarchitects.com/


Maybe it's new?

[canetoad]

4. Yeah, I looked at it

And decided it wasn't worth linking.

I'm ok with minimalism but that's taking it a bit far. His work is like stepping back into c16 Italy.

[Dave Bowman]

3. "New traditionalist designer of churches +"

Yeah well that guy was picked for a reason so he must be the fundie nutjob type. The thing will be absolutely awful.

[canetoad]

5. I thought

Maybe Opus Dei. Well, Pope Leo has fixed that.

[genxlib]

6. For scale

If this were a rec center gymnasium, you could fit 15 basketball courts in it.

Obviously, it won't all be ball room because it will need a kitchen, restrooms, AC rooms etc.

But it is a monstrosity

[ananda]

7. So it's to be a "holy roman emperor" ballroom.

Right.

[Champp]

8. Do the Protestants know about this?

A Catholic? They are taking over. OMG...

[Blue Owl]

9. Probably a distant relative of Jon McNaughton

[tanyev]

10. Ah, it's not a ballroom--it's a temple for the cult of Trump.

[canetoad]

11. We could call

His missus Medusa.