"Trump has raised eyebrows with his remaking of the White House decor, the Rose Garden patio, and other ostentatious touches like a military parade. The latest example is a proposed triumphal arch, an artist's rendering of which Trump posted well after midnight Friday night: The post follows a photograph that was taken this week of a model on the desk in the Oval Office that drew notice posted by AFP's Danny Kemp:"
"Watson's photograph showed the Lincoln Memorial facing the wrong direction, and the model quickly garnered comparisons to Albert Speer's unbuilt German Arch of Triumph. The proposed arch echoes that of Grand Army Plaza Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch in Brooklyn, and of course Paris's Arc de Triomphe. It would have a gold winged angel and two white eagles. Its tentative site is Memorial Circlea traffic roundabout across the Arlington Memorial Bridge from the Lincoln Memorial."
"Eric Jenkins, an architect and former educator at the University of Maryland and Catholic University, said the arch stands to disrupt a symbolic connection between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington House and Arlington National Cemetery's most hallowed ground.' Jenkins, who has taught studios in Rome, and recognizes the virtue and importance of learning from Greco-Roman architectural history, called contemporary classical architecture an oxymoron if there ever was one."
A presidential post showed an artist's rendering of a proposed triumphal arch and followed a photograph of a desk model in the Oval Office. The proposed arch would echo historic monuments such as Brooklyn's Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch and Paris's Arc de Triomphe, and would include a gold winged angel and two white eagles. The tentative site is Memorial Circle, a traffic roundabout across the Arlington Memorial Bridge from the Lincoln Memorial. The project drew comparisons to Albert Speer's unbuilt German Arch of Triumph and criticism that the arch could disrupt symbolic connections with Arlington's hallowed ground.
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