Trump Wants a BIGGER White House Ballroom Wing…So he Fired his Architect Who Did NOT….

Donald ALWAYS Has to Have the Biggest and Gaudiest edifice to put his name on….

The nation’s White House is NO different…

His original designer baulked at his client’s vision?….

So in the true Donald way….

He has replaced the guy with someone who I’m sure won’t care about ascetics and make plans for some ‘Big and BOLD’ building for the former NYC Real Estate guy….

And over shines the old White House home and office of the American President….

And would have Donald J. Trump’s name on it?

 

President Trump has hired a new architecture firm to oversee the design of his new ballroom, the White House said on Thursday, a move that comes after he had multiple disagreements with his original designer.

The president chose Shalom Baranes Associates, a Washington, D.C.-based firm that has designed other government buildings, to oversee the next phase of the project, a White House spokesman, Davis R. Ingle,​ said in a statement. He added that the firm would join​ “a team of experts to carry out President Trump’s vision on building what will be the greatest addition to the White House since the Oval Offic​e.”…

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James McCrery, who runs McCrery Architects, which is known for its work building Catholic churches, had personally presented the president with plans of a design that would be in keeping with the rest of the White House. But their visions diverged as Mr. Trump’s ambitions for the project grew.

Mr. Trump tore down the East Wing in October after pledging that the White House would not be touched, and is seeking to build a ballroom more than four times as large as the 20,000-square-foot one at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida that inspired it.

And Mr. Trump’s insistence that the ballroom be completed before his term ends in 2029 has resulted in sloppy plans. The various plans released so far, including a rushed model made by a contractor, have included windows that collide into each other and a staircase to nowhere.

A White House official insisted that McCrery Architects was not being replaced, and that Mr. McCrery, who had pulled back from day-to-day involvement in the project in recent weeks, would serve as a “valuable consultant.”…

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