demolished with the old East Wing<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sources: Nearmap (2025 aerial image); Shalom Baranes Associates. <\/p>\n
Renderings show a grand staircase from the new East Colonnade to the garden. Stone-paved paths connect the garden to the first floor of the new East Wing.<\/p>\n
According to the plans, the new garden is larger than the old one, and will include a circular brick area and trees replanted from the old garden. The fountain from the old garden will also be brought back.<\/p>\n
Asymmetrical pathway<\/p>\n
To accommodate the massive size of the proposed East Wing, the main pathway around the South Lawn has been altered and is no longer symmetrical, renderings show.<\/p>\n
Sources: Nearmap (2025 aerial image); Shalom Baranes Associates. <\/p>\n
The final designs submitted last week have the same overall footprint as the plans from January, making clear Mr. Trump has rejected calls to make the building smaller.<\/p>\n
The architects said last month that the White House was considering adding a \u201cmodest one-story addition\u201d to the West Colonnade, to \u201crestore a sense of symmetry to the original central pavilion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump\u2019s latest plans for the East Wing ballroom reveal new details and a few notable changes from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12616,4074,2822,1452,58284,9,11,10,1069,1876,58283,9233],"class_list":{"0":"post-137072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-building-construction","9":"tag-dc","10":"tag-demolition","11":"tag-donald-j","12":"tag-east-wing","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-trump","17":"tag-united-states-politics-and-government","18":"tag-white-house-ballroom","19":"tag-white-house-building-washington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}