{"id":4731,"date":"2026-02-19T19:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/?p=4731"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:34:57","slug":"more-white-house-ballroom-renderings-revealed-as-cfa-approves-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/more-white-house-ballroom-renderings-revealed-as-cfa-approves-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"More White House ballroom renderings revealed as CFA approves designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"852\" height=\"852\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-homepage_article_featured size-homepage_article_featured lazyload\" alt=\"White House ballroom\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/east-wing-white-house-commission-of-fine-arts_dezeen_2364_sq-4-852x852-1.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Members of the advisory council Commission of Fine Arts unanimously voted to approve designs for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/white-house\/\">the White House<\/a> ballroom expansion, releasing new renderings of the controversial project. <span id=\"more-2298824\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfa.gov\/records-research\/record-cfa-actions\/2026\/02\/cfa-meeting\">Digitised drawings and rendering<\/a> by White House ballroom designer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbaranes.com\/\">Shalom Baranes Architects<\/a> were presented and approved in a Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) meeting on 19 February. The documents detail the 90,000-square-foot (8,360 square metre) project that is set to replace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2025\/10\/20\/demolition-white-house-east-wing-begins-ballroom-construction\/\">the now-demolished East Wing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2298841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2298841\" style=\"width: 2364px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2298841 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"2364\" height=\"1530\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/east-wing-white-house-commission-of-fine-arts_dezeen_2364_col_13.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2298841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Commission of Fine Arts has approved the White House ballroom plans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/02\/19\/trump-white-house-ballroom-fine-arts\/\">According to reporting by the Washington Post<\/a>, the committee voted unanimously to approve the designs proposed by Shalom Baranes Architects.<\/p>\n<p>With this unanimous vote, the project will move forward for further discussion on 5 March by <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/MqPmQ\/https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/12\/25\/trump-white-house-ballroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the National Capital Planning Commission<\/a> (NCPC), which &#8220;adopts, approves, or provides advice&#8221; on projects in the greater Washington DC area.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2298857\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2298857\" style=\"width: 2364px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2298857 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"White House ballroom renderings\" width=\"2364\" height=\"1530\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/east-wing-white-house-commission-of-fine-arts_dezeen_2364_col_14.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2298857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CFA vote advances the project towards a 5 March meeting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncpc.gov\/projects\/8733\/\">East Wing Modernization<\/a> project includes replacing the former East Wing of the White House with a two-storey building and an expanded colonnade that would attach it to the Executive Residence, which sits at the centre of the White House complex.<\/p>\n<p>The second storey will contain a 22,000 square foot ballroom (2,043 square metres), which was commissioned by President Trump as a space to host visiting dignitaries.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related-in-article-wrapper\" id=\"recommended-item-single-story\">\n<article class=\"related-in-article\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2025\/10\/24\/white-house-ballroom-everything-you-need-to-know\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Can this image be in the exclude lightbox list? --><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"191\" height=\"191\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"excludeLightbox wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"Render of White House east wing\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/white-house-east-wing-ballroom-mccrery-architects_dezeen_2364_col_3-1704x959-1-191x191-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-in-article-text\">\n<h1>Read:<\/h1>\n<h2>Everything you need to know about Trump&#8217;s White House plans<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The CFA is made up of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfa.gov\/about-cfa\/who-we-are\">seven members<\/a> appointed by the US president.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2025\/10\/29\/donald-trumps-fires-commission-of-fine-arts\/\">fired all of its previous members<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/national-international\/trump-appoints-commission-of-fine-arts-members\/4043945\/\">has been reappointing new members<\/a>, including former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2025\/08\/06\/trumps-white-house-architect-james-mccrery\/\">White House architect James McCrery<\/a>, this year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2298856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2298856\" style=\"width: 2364px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2298856 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"White House ballroom renderings\" width=\"2364\" height=\"1530\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/east-wing-ballroom-modernization_dezeen_2364_col_2.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2298856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renderings show the ballroom in relation to existing White House structures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>McCrery did not vote on the motion, as the architect proposed the ballroom&#8217;s initial designs before being fired from the job and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2025\/12\/05\/james-mccrery-dismissed-white-house-ballroom-architect\/\">replaced by Shalom Baranes Architects in December<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1910, the CFA reviews &#8220;matters of design and aesthetics&#8221; within the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/washington-dc\/\">Washington DC<\/a> area, and acts as an advisory board, but does not have approval in terms of the actual realisation of the White House expansion.<\/p>\n<p>If NCPC approval is granted, construction could begin as early as April, according to the Washington Post, although the project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/12\/us\/politics\/trump-white-house-ballroom-lawsuit-national-trust.html\">is currently being challenged in court<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/savingplaces.org\/\">the National Trust for Historic Preservation<\/a>, which is suing for lack of review.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2298855\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2298855\" style=\"width: 2364px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2298855 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"White house ballroom\" width=\"2364\" height=\"1530\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/east-wing-ballroom-modernization_dezeen_2364_col_1.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2298855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large colonnade lines one side of the ballroom design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a whole, the White House is largely exempt from the National Historic Preservation Act, which mandates review for projects on federal buildings, allowing for Trump&#8217;s expedited approval process for the project.<\/p>\n<p>Drawings of the East Wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2026\/02\/17\/drawings-white-house-ballroom-baranes\/\">were effectively leaked<\/a> recently by the NCPC ahead of the 5 March meeting. Although roughly similar, the PDF presented today included more detailed sections and floor plans than seen before.<\/p>\n<p><em>The images are via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfa.gov\/\">the Commission of Fine Arts\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2026\/02\/19\/commission-of-fine-arts-approves-white-house-ballroom-designs\/\">More White House ballroom renderings revealed as CFA approves designs<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\">Dezeen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the advisory council Commission of Fine Arts unanimously voted to approve designs for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4739,"href":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions\/4739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}