They are starting to demolish part of the White House to build Trump’s ballroom

Washington.- Works to build the ballroom commissioned by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, at the White House began this Monday with the demolition of a part of the presidential residence, despite the fact that the president said that the new enclosure would be an annex and that the original structure of the building would not be changed. Some correspondents made public the first images of the demolition machines working on the east wing of the US Executive headquarters. According to the Trump Administration a few weeks ago – in a statement – the new facility was going to be “substantially separated” from the main building, however, as several journalists present today could see, the original structure of the White House will be affected. A White House official confirmed to The Washington Post, on condition of anonymity, that the demolitions seen this Monday are to build the hall and pointed out that it will replace the east wing.

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Trump has ordered the construction of a ballroom in the White House with a surface area of about 8,000 square meters and a capacity for up to 900 people, as specified last week to the NBC network. The project has an estimated cost of two hundred million dollars, which, according to the White House, will be covered by donations from the president himself and other “patriots”. The company in charge of the works is the construction company Clark, based in the state of Virginia and responsible for emblematic projects in the American capital such as the Capital One Arena stadium and L’Enfant Plaza park. The design corresponds in turn to the firm McCrery Architects, which will preserve the American neoclassical style that prevails in the White House.