by Olivier Acuña Barba •Revealed: July 31, 2025•23:46•2 minutes learn
White Home Rendering Stateballroom Credit: McCrery Architects PLLC/The White Home Press Workplace
US President Donald Trump steadily expressed his want to construct an enormous, luxurious ballroom within the White Home. Effectively, his dream got here to mild when Washington’s presidential civil servant introduced plans to construct it for $200 million.
The brand new ballroom will probably be constructed proper subsequent to the “modernized” Eastwing within the White Home, the BBC reported on Thursday, July thirty first. That space of the presidential residence now homes the workplace of First Woman Melania Trump.
Building started in September and is designed to cowl 90,000 sq. ft (27,432 sq. meters) of house, his spokesman, Karoline Leavitt, mentioned. The White Home Ballroom is a 15-year ambition by the president to construct occasion house on the White Home grounds that develop the constructing’s attention-grabbing capabilities, nevertheless it additionally resembles the golden house of his personal membership.
“It’ll be an excellent legacy mission.”
“I’ve at all times mentioned I will do one thing in regards to the ballroom. “It’ll be an excellent legacy mission, and I believe it may be particular.”
Sustaining the “theme and architectural heritage” of neoclassical government residences, the brand new Ballroom has seating capability of 650 individuals, greater than 3 times as a lot house because the East Room, and is at present the biggest occasion house within the White Home.
“The president did not know methods to construct a ballroom,” Trump mentioned he met the President of the European Fee and his Turnberry Golf Resort at Scotland’s Turnberry Golf Resort final weekend. “I can take this and drop it immediately, and it is going to be stunning.”
The White Home is at present internet hosting occasions in “ugly” tents
Leavitt described the brand new building, which he mentioned could be funded by Trump and different personal donors, however she referred to as it “ugly” after the earlier white home was pressured to host a big occasion in a brief tent constructed on the south garden.
“For 150 years, the president, administration and White Home workers have longed for a big occasion house within the White Home advanced that may accommodate considerably extra company than is at present permitted,” Leavitt mentioned. “President Trump has expressed his dedication to fixing this situation on behalf of the longer term administration and the American individuals.”
McCrery Architects, an architect recognized for his “Traditional Structure Design,” was chosen to take the lead within the mission.
“We’re honored to reward President Trump for serving to us convey this stunning and obligatory renovation to individuals’s houses.