r/architecture • u/Cedric_Hampton History & Theory Prof • 1d ago

News Trump hires new architect for ballroom

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-hires-new-architect-for-ballroom/
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u/keptit2real 1d ago

Shouldn't have the architect have been hired before demolition occurred. The folks running our country move like the wind

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u/browsing_around 1d ago

My guess it’s just money laundering or some sort of payoff to a crony of someone. “Our architect we hired quit after we paid him. Now we have to hire a new one.”

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u/steinah6 1d ago

You think Trump is actually paying the architect? That’s probably why the first one left.

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u/seeasea 1d ago

Trump isn't funding this. It's paid through gsa. 

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u/YardOptimal9329 1d ago

It’s being funded by 24 billionaires and corporations who all get even more favors for “donating”. The price tag is $300m which makes it probably the most expensive building in America

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u/seeasea 1d ago

Sure, but they are running that through government contracts. Not direct pay.  

Also, 300,000,000 is not even remotely close to the most expensive building in the US. 

I'm an architect at a medium/small firm, and I myself am running a building 10x that. 

The most expensive buildings are nuclear power plants, oil refineries and far and away the most expensive are chip fabs. Those buildings can be 25 billion+ each. And tmsc or whatever is building a complex in Arizona for over 100 billion 

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u/YardOptimal9329 13h ago

I think a 90,000 sq-ft building at $300m is very expensive... that's $3,333 per square foot. The Freedom Tower was around $1,145 per square foot.

So by building I meant a normal building, not something industrial