New construction must adhere more closely to Greco-Roman style of US Capitol and White House
New construction must adhere more closely to Greco-Roman style of US Capitol and White House
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The order, which affects buildings like federal courthouses and agency headquarters, encourages classical styles rather than…
The administration is offloading gems of US architecture while redesigning the city to match the president’s values
While President Trump is right to try to reclaim meaning in American architecture, Gilded Age neoclassicism is not the answer.
“It looks like Liberace got high and decided to redecorate,” one social media user said of the president’s White House makeover.
He has already turned the Oval Office into a wrestler’s changing room. Now the president is building a place so gilded Nero would…
In 1980, Trump destroyed Art Deco sculptures he'd promised to the Met to speed up Trump Tower's construction—now he's demolishing…
