Trump order makes classical architecture default style for federal buildings
Source: The Hill
08/28/25 6:19 PM ET
President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order establishing classical architecture as the preferred and default style for federal buildings, the latest way Trump has sought to put his stamp on government structures. Trumps order, titled Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again, requires that he be notified 30 days in advance if government officials intend to approve a design for a federal building that veers into brutalist or deconstructive architecture.
Applicable Federal public buildings should uplift and beautify public spaces, inspire the human spirit, ennoble the United States, and command respect from the general public, the order states. They should also be visually identifiable as civic buildings and, as appropriate, respect regional architectural heritage.
In the District of Columbia, classical architecture shall be the preferred and default architecture for Federal public buildings absent exceptional factors necessitating another kind of architecture, the order adds.
Trump, who spent decades in the real estate business, has made various aesthetic changes to the White House and floated other changes to government buildings during his second term.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5476268-trump-order-federal-architecture-beautification/
Waste. Fraud. Abuse.

C_U_L8R
(48,168 posts)A lifetime in real estate and still clueless.
Botany
(75,384 posts)
Trueblue Texan
(3,794 posts)Neo whorehouse.
muriel_volestrangler
(104,844 posts)He might even insist on his one being in the current state of the original, "for authenticity". But that wouldn't support having Hunger Games there.
bucolic_frolic
(52,518 posts)Skyscraper Don becomes Pierre Charles L'Enfant and a Founding Father!
Prairie Gates
(6,359 posts)Oooooof.
Botany
(75,384 posts)
with models of his vision of what the new Berlin would look like.
But both Hitler and Trump are Fascists except Hitler is dead now and both are
or were batshit crazy. And both of them destroyed their nations and both of them
were race warriors for white people too.

FakeNoose
(38,773 posts)It's further proof that Chump has lived way too long already.
underpants
(193,256 posts)Lots of pillars and columns huh?
LPBBEAR
(575 posts)All must obey. Rome rises again.
EarthFirst
(3,834 posts)Rustoleum gold spray-painted polyurethane appliqués on every door, transom and blank wall space as far as the eye can see!
eppur_se_muova
(40,126 posts)He'd love to see everything frozen in the Sixties/Seventies, if not earlier -- in an idealized version of what things were, not as they actually were.
"Since 'tis Nature's way to change,
constancy alone is strange."
Walleye
(42,643 posts)enigmania
(371 posts)Scrivener7
(57,314 posts)No matter what he does with a Sharpie.
no_hypocrisy
(53,201 posts)As would Ayn Rand.
GiqueCee
(2,854 posts)... to bitch-slap Ayn Rand (real name, Alisa Rosenbaum), the black-hearted goddess of pathological selfishness. I met her once, back in '67 or '68, if only for a 2-second dead-fish hand-shake in a reception line after a vile speech I was forced to attend by my frothing-at-the-mouth "Objectivist" employers at the time.
She was a horrible person who screeched her hatred of altruism at every opportunity. She's long dead now, but her poisonous influence lives on in the sick and twisted soul of every Republican that Satan ever defecated.
The Blue Flower
(6,188 posts)The new thousand-year reich needs your patriotic heart!
JMCKUSICK
(4,018 posts)"Trump, who spent decades in the real estate business, has made various aesthetic changes to the White House..."
Aesthetic? Aesthetic? Are you fucking kidding me? Fucking aesthetic, he destroyed the place, its history, and every ounce of class that it ever had in its designs.
Aesthetic changes my ass.
johnnyfins
(2,966 posts)anymore. Their content(it used to be news) sucks ass.
Torchlight
(5,748 posts)He's turning into quite the little red of late.
GiqueCee
(2,854 posts)... architectural decor now, I'm buying stock in gold spray paint!
FakeNoose
(38,773 posts)What a waste of valuable resources. Why hasn't DOGE fired him yet?
AverageOldGuy
(3,002 posts)didnt Trump destroy a historic and architecturally significant building facade in NYC?
As I recall he purchased a historic building and agreed to preserve the art deco facade. He the proceeded to bring in a crew of undocumented workers, forced them to live in the empty building, and had them rip off the old, historic facade?
Someone needs to publicize that.
BumRushDaShow
(160,828 posts)He completely razed the original Bonwitt-Teller building that was there.
https://envisioningtheamericandream.com/2024/04/15/the-travesty-of-trump-tower-and-bonwit-teller/
It's been publicized for over 40 years but no one seems to care (except maybe architecture and art officiandos), and notably of no interest to people who don't live in NYC (or even who live there). People didn't seem to care about the "Access Hollywood" tapes so...
Bengus81
(9,457 posts)mwmisses4289
(2,320 posts)architecture to put up ugly glass and steel buildings.
Walleye
(42,643 posts)Eugene
(66,427 posts)Turd Reich with gold accents.