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Nick Thorn
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i’m an architect. fayetteville, arkansas. everyone deserves good design.
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Going to do the same here in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

“How would you prefer to see Northwest Arkansas developed?”

Sadly, we’re overrun with folks who want single family houses and to protect the natural beauty of the city. Can’t have both, folks.

DENSITY SAVES NATURE
Making a yard sign of this
That Voyager is choice. 🥹
Looks like an 80s Ioniq 5 - probably the same size, too.
It’s also clearly been replaced in the original renderings released this summer.

Even though during his previous comments Trump promised the East Wing would remain in tact, anyone who closely studied these renderings should have known it was all getting demolished.
Likely needed for the support spaces and large restrooms. Any sensible architect would’ve found a way to keep it and found a better location for those spaces, but Trump’s team just demolished everything. bsky.app/profile/arch...
The floor plan accompanying the latest Times story (gift link) on the Trump ballroom labels it as 1,350 seats or 2,225 standing room capacity. That is quite a cozy seating layout! I never worked food service, but I imagine that would be hell to serve at full capacity.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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yes you can 3-d print a house

no, it is not going to address the housing crisis

and when it comes to climate - it's a terrible solution.

concrete is not an insulator, folks

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/r...
‘Can You Print a House?’: God, Robots and the U.S. Housing Crisis
www.nytimes.com
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JUST A LITTLE MORE SPRAWL BRO
PLEASE BRO
BRO THIS IS DIFFERENT
JUST A LITTLE MORE SPRAWL BRO
I SWEAR BRO JUST A LITTLE MORE SPRAWL, I SWEAR WE'LL SOLVE THE HOUSING CRISIS
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SNAP benefits expire in one week.
Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
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A blaring red warning signal for the rule of law; a President declaring “we’re just gonna kill people” without a trial or even a shred of due process.
Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."
So, the column portico at the east facade isn't centered on the entry rotunda?

Are you f*cking kidding me? This is some sh*t classical design from some complete amateurs.
The floor plan accompanying the latest Times story (gift link) on the Trump ballroom labels it as 1,350 seats or 2,225 standing room capacity. That is quite a cozy seating layout! I never worked food service, but I imagine that would be hell to serve at full capacity.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Came here to say the same thing! 😂🫠😩
They started designing this during his last administration or during the Biden administration, didn't they?

Even the biggest architecture and engineering firms would struggle to arrive at this level of design resolution in 7 months.
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But it has marble columns so they're ok with it
Destroying a humble Jeffersonian structure, making an American and classicist icon asymmetrical, to build an ungainly asymmetrical vanity project—it’s everything classicists accuse modernists of doing, except it’s one of their own.
He’s going to tear down and rebuild the West Wing next, isn’t he? 🤦‍♂️
That graphic from the WaPo grossly underrepresents the size of this thing.

Also, the original renderings did not suggest any portion of the East Wing remaining.

We’ve been bamboozled.
Probably a handful of dates from the Reagan administration would help fill out the bracket. Lol.
Also a good pick. 👍
June 16, 2015 should be considered. A lower seeded date, but definitely helped accelerate the American Century of Humiliation.
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Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
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most destructive president in US history (literally, figuratively)
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
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What gets me is that NONE of the examples given "such as the failed toilet valve that flooded the mayor’s office in May", old electrical panels, or various leaks aren't "demolish the building" problems.

Northpark Center leaks. They aren't going to demolish that any time soon.
Dallas Observer also posted a story. A cynic would say all the CMs
are either on Team Ray W (tear down) or Team Ray H (arena on his land). B_G Real Estate is doing terrible things to downtown. www.dallasobserver.com/news/fix-or-...
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
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Yeah, this sums it up.
the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
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The destruction of the East Wing really bums me out in a way that I wasn't expecting.

I guess some of it is about the destruction of history. But I think it's mostly about the feeling of helplessness. There's nothing we can do to stop him.

Nobody is coming to save us. And it's going to get worse.