By Olivier Acuña Barba •
Printed: 31 Jul 2025 • 23:46
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A rendering of the White Home State ballroom Credit score: McCrery Architects PLLC/The White Home Press Workplace
US President Donald Trump regularly expressed a want to construct an unlimited, luxurious ballroom within the White Home. Properly, his dream has come by because the president’s official residence in Washington, D.C. has introduced plans to begin constructing it for $200 million.
The brand new ballroom might be constructed proper subsequent to a “modernised” East Wing of the White Home, the BBC reported on Thursday, July thirty first. That space of the presidential residence at present homes First Girl Melania Trump’s places of work.
Building will start in September and is designed to cowl 90,000 sq. ft (27,432 sq. metres) of area, his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, stated. The ballroom on the White Home is a 15-year ambition by the president to assemble an occasion area on the White Home grounds that expands the constructing’s entertaining capability — but in addition resembles the gilded areas of his personal golf equipment.
‘It’ll be an ideal legacy mission’
“I at all times stated I used to be going to do one thing concerning the ballroom, as a result of they need to have one,” Trump informed reporters on Thursday. “It’ll be an ideal legacy mission, and I feel it’ll be particular.”
The brand new ballroom, which is able to preserve the “theme and architectural heritage” of the neoclassical government mansion, may have a seated capability of 650 individuals, greater than thrice the area within the East Room, at present the biggest occasion area within the White Home.
“No president knew find out how to construct a ballroom,” Trump stated final weekend, assembly the European Fee president in one other of his crystal-draped ballrooms, this one at his Turnberry golf resort in Scotland. “I may take this one, drop it proper down there, and it might be lovely.”
White Home now hosts occasions in ‘ugly’ tents
Leavitt described the brand new development, which she stated might be funded by Trump and different personal donors, as a vital addition after earlier White Homes have been compelled to host vital occasions in short-term tents constructed on the South Garden, which she referred to as “ugly.”
“For 150 years, presidents, administrations and White Home employees have longed for a big occasion area on the White Home complicated that may maintain considerably extra company than at present allowed,” stated Leavitt. “President Trump has expressed his dedication to fixing this downside on behalf of future administrations and the American individuals.”
An architect recognized for “classical architectural design,” McCrery Architects, was chosen to spearhead the mission.
“I’m honoured that President Trump has entrusted me to assist deliver this lovely and vital renovation to The Folks’s Home, whereas preserving the class of its classical design and historic significance,” the agency’s CEO Jim McCrery stated in an announcement.