White House files most detailed plans yet for Trump ballroom, East Wing renovation

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The White House this week presented its astir elaborate plans yet for the East Wing renovation, moving 1 measurement person to fulfilling President Trump's privation for a astir 90,000-square-foot addition to the enforcement mansion. The National Capital Planning Commission volition measure those plans astatine a proceeding successful aboriginal March.

The submission includes caller renderings of the neoclassical structure, comparative to different buildings adjacent to the ballroom and from vantage points adjacent the U.S. Capitol, Jefferson Memorial and points astir the White House campus. The East Wing, which volition location a ballroom, bureau abstraction and a two-story colonnade, volition beryllium built to astir the aforesaid tallness arsenic the existing enforcement residence and volition beryllium somewhat taller than the adjacent Treasury building.

Drawings provided by the project's designer Shalom Baranes amusement boxwood hedges and ceramic pavers lining the building's eastbound side.

In a 9-page letter to the commission, manager of White House absorption and medication Josh Fisher said experts studied the existing East Wing operation earlier concluding demolition was the lone mode forward. Its structural limitations did not let for modifications, Fisher wrote.

"Demolition of the existing East Wing operation and reconstruction of a caller East Wing provided the astir effectual solution to galore longstanding issues affecting the White House and delivered the champion semipermanent hazard reduction," Fisher said.

The East Wing was razed successful October. Fisher said dense instrumentality has been kept astatine a region from the White House mansion to debar inadvertent damage, and helium said that a information of the gathering was removed by hand. Contractors monitored vibrations and cracks to support the existing structure.

Fisher wrote that the demolition was "methodical….rather than abrupt catastrophic destruction," adjacent though the nationalist was not notified anterior to the East Wing's destruction.

The medication plans to upgrade parkland grounds surrounding the White House and regenerate the trailer that presently serves arsenic a visitant information checkpoint.

Fisher added a squad has begun structural investigation of the West Wing colonnade to spot if it could enactment a 2nd story, bringing it into symmetry with the soon-to-built East colonnade. "No determination volition beryllium made regarding specified a task until these aspects are afloat studied and analyzed."

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