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这项计划中的9万平方英尺项目将是白宫场地数十年来最重大的变革，尽管面临法庭质疑和国会质询，该项目仍在推进中。
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唐纳德·特朗普总统提议的白宫宴会厅扩建项目效果图。（Shalom Baranes Associates）
作者：丹·戴蒙德、乔纳森·爱德华兹和艾伦·斯泰克伯格
周五公布的新效果图首次清晰展示了唐纳德·特朗普总统提议的白宫宴会厅扩建项目——尽管该项目在法庭上面临质疑，在国会受到质询，但其推进工作仍在继续。
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负责该项目的Shalom Baranes Associates事务所向国会设立的国家首都规划委员会（National Capital Planning Commission）提交了这些效果图。这些效果图包括宴会厅建筑的多个角度，该建筑约9万平方英尺，还将包含白宫工作人员的办公室。白宫将该项目称为“东翼现代化改造”。
这些图像显示出与早期设计相比的至少一项重大改动：移除了宴会厅南侧门廊上方的大型三角形山墙。特朗普任命的联邦艺术委员会（Commission of Fine Arts）主席小罗德尼·库克（Rodney Cook Jr.）在1月份曾警告称，这座山墙“规模庞大”，并向建筑师施压，询问是否可以缩小。
山墙对比图
- 南侧门廊上方的山墙
原计划：山墙存在
更新计划：无山墙
来源：Shalom Baranes Associates
艾伦·斯泰克伯格/《华盛顿邮报》
- 南侧门廊上方的山墙
原计划：山墙存在
更新计划：无山墙
来源：Shalom Baranes Associates
艾伦·斯泰克伯格/《华盛顿邮报》
- 南侧门廊上方的山墙
原计划：山墙存在
更新计划：无山墙
来源：Shalom Baranes Associates
艾伦·斯泰克伯格/《华盛顿邮报》
尽管进行了修改，拟议中的扩建部分在最高点的高度仍将与白宫相同——这是特朗普的优先事项，也是外部建筑师和历史保护主义者的主要关切。批评者警告称，该项目可能会使标志性的主建筑黯然失色，并改变该建筑群长期受到保护的景观。根据周五分享的设计图，新效果图表明，从某些角度（例如西北区15街的位置），该建筑可能会遮挡白宫住宅的视野。
布鲁斯·雷德曼·贝克尔（Bruce Redman Becker）是一位由前总统乔·拜登任命、去年被特朗普罢免的建筑师，他表示，这些效果图显示“一座比例糟糕的伪新古典主义结构，与白宫完全不成比例。”他还指出，效果图中的图像不符合美国国家公园管理局数十年来为白宫及其周边公园的建筑项目制定的指导方针，该方针要求新建筑与历史建筑兼容。
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“设计团队显然忽视了这些指导方针，应被要求修改并重新提交符合指导方针的计划，”贝克尔表示。
Shalom Baranes Associates未立即回电就该项目问题置评。白宫为宴会厅项目的设计进行了辩护，称其将与历史悠久的主楼相协调。
这些项目效果图在周五傍晚短暂移除后，已在国家首都规划委员会的网站上公布。
联邦艺术委员会秘书托马斯·吕布克（Thomas Luebke）在上个月的公开会议上表示，委员会收到了数十条“某种程度上”批评该计划项目的公众评论。吕布克称，有一位评论者表示，拟议中的建筑“主导了白宫的主建筑”。
白宫表示，希望在下个月的计划听证会上获得国家首都规划委员会和联邦艺术委员会的批准。这两个委员会目前均由特朗普任命的成员领导，他们已表明对该项目的支持。
施工人员已花约五个月时间准备建造该建筑，其中包括10月份对东翼的颇具争议的拆除，尽管政府曾承诺施工不会“干扰”现有建筑。特朗普政府官员表示，地面以上的施工最早可能在4月开始。
该项目面临法律挑战，美国地区法官理查德·利昂（Richard Leon）预计本月底将作出裁决，他正在权衡政府依赖私人捐赠的计划是否使其能够绕过国会批准。国会民主党人和监督组织对这种融资安排提出质疑。
该项目部分由与联邦政府有业务往来的企业捐赠资助，资金通过一家非营利中介机构流转，该机构有望收取数百万美元的费用。其中包括亚马逊公司，其创始人是《华盛顿邮报》所有者杰夫·贝佐斯。
特朗普辩称，这种方式为纳税人节省了开支。他为该项目辩护称，这是白宫场地长期以来急需的扩建，是总统接待贵宾的必要设施。
“项目在预算内，且提前于计划进度！”特朗普周二在其Truth Social平台上写道。
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New images of White House ballroom show clearest look yet at Trump project
2026-02-14T00:02:10.850Z / The Washington Post
The planned 90,000-square-foot project would represent the most significant change to the White House grounds in decades and is advancing even as it is challenged in court and questioned on Capitol Hill.
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A rendering of President Donald Trump’s proposed White House ballroom addition. (Shalom Baranes Associates)
By Dan Diamond
,
Jonathan Edwards
and
Aaron Steckelberg
New renderings shared Friday offer the clearest look yet at President Donald Trump’s proposed White House ballroom addition — a project advancing even as it is challenged in court and questioned on Capitol Hill.
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Shalom Baranes Associates, the firm handling the project, shared the renderings with the National Capital Planning Commission, a committee charged by Congress with overseeing major federal construction projects in the region. The renderings include various angles of the ballroom building, an approximately 90,000-square-foot addition that would also include offices for White House staff. The White House has dubbed the project its “East Wing Modernization.”
The images reveal at least one significant change from earlier designs: the removal of a large triangular pediment above the ballroom’s southern portico. Rodney Cook Jr. — a Trump appointee who chairs the Commission of Fine Arts, another federal panel reviewing the project — had warned in January that the pediment was “immense” and pressed the architects about whether it could be reduced.
Pediment
above portico
Previous plan
White House
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SOUTH SIDE OF PROPOSED BALLROOM
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Updated plan
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White House
SOUTH SIDE OF PROPOSED BALLROOM
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SOURCES: Shalom Baranes Associates
AARON STECKELBERG/THE WASHINGTON POST
Previous plan
Pediment
above portico
White
House
SOUTH SIDE OF PROPOSED BALLROOM
WEST
EAST
No pediment
Updated plan
White
House
SOUTH SIDE OF PROPOSED BALLROOM
WEST
EAST
SOURCES: Shalom Baranes Associates
AARON STECKELBERG/THE WASHINGTON POST
Pediment
above portico
Previous plan
White
House
SOUTH SIDE OF PROPOSED BALLROOM
WEST
EAST
Updated plan
No pediment
White
House
SOUTH SIDE OF PROPOSED BALLROOM
WEST
EAST
SOURCES: Shalom Baranes Associates
AARON STECKELBERG/THE WASHINGTON POST
Despite the revisions, the proposed addition would remain the same height as the White House at its highest point — a priority for Trump and a major concern for outside architects and historical preservationists. Critics have warned the project could overshadow the iconic main mansion and alter long-protected sightliness around the complex. The new renderings indicate the building could block views of the White House residence from certain viewpoints, such as locations on 15th Street NW, according to the designs shared Friday.
Bruce Redman Becker, an architect who was appointed to the Commission of Fine Arts by former president Joe Biden and removed by Trump last year, said the renderings show “a poorly proportioned pseudo-neoclassical structure that is completely out of scale with the White House.” He also said that the images shown in the renderings did not comply with decades-old guidelines developed by the National Park Service for construction projects at the White House and its neighboring park, which call for new additions to be compatible with the historic structure.
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“The design team clearly ignored these guidelines, and should be asked to revise and resubmit plans that follow the guidelines,” Becker said.
Shalom Baranes Associates did not immediately respond to a voicemail with questions about the project. The White House has defended the ballroom project’s design, saying it will comport with the historic mansion.
The project renderings were available on the National Capital Planning Commission’s website on Friday evening after being briefly removed.
The Commission of Fine Arts also received several dozen public comments that were “in some way critical” of the planned project, Thomas Luebke, the commission’s secretary, said at its public meeting last month. One commenter said the proposed building dominated the White House’s main mansion, Luebke said.
The White House has said that it hopes to win approval for the project from the National Capital Planning Commission and the Commission of Fine Arts at planned hearings next month. Both commissions are now led by Trump appointees who have signaled their support for the project.
Crews have spent roughly five months preparing to erect the building, which included a controversial teardown of the East Wing in October despite promises from the administration that construction wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing building. Trump officials have said aboveground construction could begin as soon as April.
The project is subject to a legal challenge with a ruling expected as soon as this month from U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, who is weighing whether the administration’s plan to rely on private donations allows it to bypass congressional approval. Congressional Democrats and watchdog groups have questioned the financing arrangement.
The project is being underwritten in part by donations from corporations with business before the federal government, funneled through a nonprofit intermediary that stands to collect millions of dollars in fees. Among the companies is Amazon, founded by Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos.
Trump has argued that the approach spares taxpayers the expense. He has defended the project, calling it an overdue addition to the White House grounds and a necessary feature for presidents seeking to entertain VIP guests.
“It is on budget, and ahead of schedule!” Trump wrote Tuesday on his Truth Social platform.
Aaron Schaffer contributed to this report.
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