NYT Visualizes Trump’s White House Ballroom and 1 Triumphal Arch Proposal

1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 4

Months of reporting by Haeyoun Park and Junho Lee turned President Trump’s Washington building plans into visual investigations, detailing an evolving White House ballroom and a proposed triumphal arch.
The project aimed to answer basic public questions about the scope, design and approval process after crews tore down the White House East Wing in October to make way for the ballroom.
Park and Lee gathered plans, interviewed officials and built 3-D models to show how the new structures might look and whether they would fit their surroundings.
Their work extends beyond the White House to Trump’s proposal for a giant arch at one end of Arlington Memorial Bridge, underscoring a broader effort to remake symbolic federal spaces in Washington.