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Trump wants all federal buildings to 'look like the White House'

President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring new federal government buildings in the United States to be “beautiful” and preferably designed in a classicist style influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, he writes. Air force.

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The order, published on the official White House website, condemns the fact that some new government buildings have recently been erected in the Brutalist style. As the decree states, this architectural movement "grew out of the modernist movement of the early 20th century" and is "characterized by a heavy appearance (...) with a bulky geometric style and extensive use of exposed concrete."

One of the most famous examples of the brutalist style that Trump writes about is the Barbican development in London, built in the 1960s and 1970s.

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As stated in the decree, new government offices in the United States should look completely different and resemble “favorite” American architectural monuments such as the White House.

The executive order, titled “Supporting Beautiful Federal Buildings,” also calls for the creation of a new council that will advise the president on the construction of new government buildings.

"Lifting the Spirit of the USA"

“Designs for new federal buildings should enhance public spaces, just like beloved American landmarks. They must inspire the people, uplift the spirit of the United States, command the respect of the people, and give due respect to the architectural heritage of the region,” the document says.

Trump also notes that the federal buildings that have been erected in Washington in recent years have led to the appearance of “a discordant mixture of classical and modernist projects” in the capital. With rare exceptions, the government has “virtually stopped building beautiful objects,” the decree said.

As the president notes, “the use of classical and other more traditional architecture should be encouraged, not opposed.”

“[Authorities] often chose designs by famous architects, paying little attention to local aesthetic preferences,” the document says. “As a result, federal architecture was sometimes very popular with the architectural elite, but not with the American people, for whom these federal buildings were supposed to be built.”

Proponents of traditional directions in architecture welcomed the Trump decree, but the American Institute of Architects opposed it. According to the head of this organization, the initial draft of the document, released in February this year, contained even more stringent recommendations on what exactly should be federal buildings.

“We are extremely concerned about the administration's decision to issue an executive order on architectural projects, but we are pleased that it goes as far as previously thought,” said Robert Ivey, head of the institute.

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According to the organization, local communities “should have the rights and responsibility to determine for themselves which projects best meet their needs.”

Donald Trump, who was in the real estate business before being elected president, is due to leave the White House on January 20. Democratic candidate Joe Biden won the presidential election in November, though Trump refuses to admit defeat.

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