President Donald Trump’s proposed $400 million White House ballroom is too big, ahistorical, and may violate federal law, according to a prominent architect.
“Everything here feels inflated,” David Scott Parker, a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, told the Associate Press of the plans, which call for a 22,000-square-foot ballroom. “The net effect of this is to adversely impact what is the most important historic — the most identifiable historic — house in the entire United States. This is permanent, what it will do to the White House.”
