The proposed White House lawn is a design crime

"The plans call for a ballroom much bigger than the rest of the White House. So big, in fact, that it ruins the shape of the South Lawn driveway. Under the proposal, a new garden would cover the site of the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, which was demolished alongside the East Wing last year, while a roughly 22,000-square-foot ballroom would jut out ever so slightly into the path of the looping driveway that encircles the most famous backyard in the U.S."

"The elongated oval drive would then have to be pushed in on one side to accommodate the footprint of the enlarged ballroom, like the side view of an spherical exercise ball under pressure. Rather than maintain the intentional harmony of the current drive, the proposed path turns the South Lawn into a deferential design afterthought that makes way for Trump's dream ballroom."

Renderings for a proposed White House annex were briefly posted to and then removed from the National Capital Planning Commission website on February 13. The proposal would replace the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden and the demolished East Wing site with a new garden and a roughly 22,000-square-foot ballroom. The ballroom’s footprint would jut slightly into the looping South Lawn driveway, forcing the elongated oval drive to be pushed inward on one side and creating an irregular, asymmetrical path. The change signals a prioritization of the enlarged ballroom and presidential design preferences over existing landscape harmony. Trump has previously altered White House grounds and replaced the original ballroom architect.

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