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The Eisenhower Office Building is ugly. I’m sorry, but it is. The French Empire style is over the top and while I’ll take French Empire over the Stalinist architecture that government buildings embraced in the twentieth century, the Eisenhower doesn’t work. It might be less of an eyesore away from the White House, but the whole point was to provide a space away from the cramped White House quarters. None of this stuff is really architecturally solvable because we have a massive government and a White House intended for a much smaller one, and the Eisenhower Office Building might be at home in Paris, but really doesn’t fit into D.C. and clashes massively with the usual federal style.
President Trump has proposed painting it white. I don’t think that’s going to fix anything, but may perhaps make it less ugly. Painting it white is not going to significantly alter anything but if you expected a freakout, you were right.
Preservationists concerned by President Donald Trump’s public musings this week about painting a 137-year-old building next to the White House completely white sued him Friday to halt the work, arguing that he could not unilaterally alter “one of the most architecturally significant and historic structures in the Nation’s Capital.”
The DC Preservation League and Cultural Heritage Partners, a law firm focused on historic preservation, took Trump seriously and scrambled to slow down any plans, given his recent demolition of the East Wing of the White House. On Friday, the groups asked a federal court to issue an emergency injunction prohibiting Trump and other federal officials from altering the building unless they complete legally required reviews. In a 35-page complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the plaintiffs accused Trump of trying to end-run legally-mandated public input into changes to historic buildings — echoing a complaint lodged by critics of his East Wing teardown.
“The Eisenhower Executive Office Building is one of our nation’s most significant architectural landmarks,” Greg Werkheiser, founding partner of the Cultural Heritage Partners law firm, said in a statement. “Any plan to alter that … like the President revealed this week, especially an irreversible action like painting it all white, must be preceded by a transparent public process that includes expert consultation and a full hard look at potential harms.”
No, no it’s not. Most people outside D.C. aren’t even aware that the Eisenhower exists. When they go on tour, they’re baffled by its existence. Painting it white is a paint job.
But the real question is where was Greg when BLM mobs were tearing down statues? Or when Hamas, afterward, carried out its own vandalism spree in D.C.? Or when leftist ‘environmentalists’ started vandalizing document displays in the National Archives?
If you guessed that Greg and ‘DC Preservation League and Cultural Heritage Partners’ were on Team Destroyers, well…
As our nation continues to contend with racial and social justice issues, the meaning and fate of monuments that fail to represent our American ideals are being debated throughout the country. Our firm has been deeply engaged in several matters involving Confederate “Lost Cause” monuments. We proudly represent clients who seek to have monuments removed from public lands, relocated, or recontextualized in order to be able to tell fully truthful history and create a more inclusive future.
Following social justice protests after the death of George Floyd, and fearful that protests surrounding the monuments would lead to another deadly confrontation by white supremacists, Mayor Levar Stoney sought a strategy for immediate removal of Lost Cause statues on Monument Avenue and through the city. CHP advised Mayor Stoney in the removal of thirteen city-owned Confederate monuments, recommending that he invoke his emergency powers to quickly take down the monuments in the interest of public safety.
Cultural Heritage Partners next represented a group of more than 50 neighbors whose homes have direct lines of sight to the Robert E. Lee Monument, formerly prominently located in what was known as Lee Circle on Monument Avenue in Richmond. Circle Neighbors supported Governor Ralph Northam’s order to immediately remove the monument, an action then challenged in the Supreme Court of Virginia. On behalf the Circle Neighbors, CHP filed an amicus brief arguing that as a matter of US historic preservation policy, the arguments for removal were sound.
The very people fighting to remove monuments are shrieking that painting the Eisenhower Office Building is vandalism.
The vandals are screaming about the importance of ‘preserving’ an office building’s color. They’re not preservationists. They’re leftist radicals and their view on preserving historical sites is contingent entirely on political narratives, not history.
Trump can’t be working very hard if he has time to enact such a pointless daydream.
You’ve just described Sleepy Joe perfectly – taking 577 vacation days, setting a record.
His delusional daydream was to make history by ending a 20 year war in Afghanistan on the anniversary of 9/11.
Too bad his botched retreat made such disaster of it, and inadvertently gave Putin confidence to start another war. (Putin saw Biden’s feckless incompetence – we all did.)
Biden still gave a rambling 9/11 speech. It just wasn’t historic or cared about. (Most aren’t even aware of it, including Biden himself.)
Trump literally works 20 hours a day, 7 days a week, and it only takes a few seconds to say “Hey, why don’t we paint that building white.” Lazy people can’t comprehend the productivity levels of an industrious person.
Most of what makes the building “French is exterior wallpaper that could be removed and replaced withe neoclassical trim. But accepting it for what it is would be the mature thing to do.
When I first saw that photo above, I thought “what a beautiful building. I’d like to live there on the top floor.”
Who knew I was such a boor?
The afflicted person is always the last one to know. I guess I’ll have to look at some photos of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings. Maybe that’s safe. Or God help me, maybe the Empire State building is still safe. It was good enough for King fucking Kong.
Sorry I think the building is quite nice looking. Reminds me a little of some places in Paris, even if a bad knock-off.
Nothing quite winds me up as much as when the slimes and liberals trash art and the cultural inheritance of societies… The slimes destroy Buddha statues, archaeological antiquities, museums, any inconvenient history. The left does it constantly. I just go black.
We were taught as kids to never have any food or drink around library books. To have reverence for them, no expectation to use them if the books weren’t left pristine after use and protected as if they were a rare fragile treasure. Art and music were also elevated to this pedestal of near worship. Destroying or vandalizing works of art, books is beneath contempt.
It is funny how liberal cretins are given absolute credence as moral centers on every subject even with switching sides as constantly as the wind changes direction. People who rave about supporting a philosophy where a country’s’ leader kills 120 million of his own people need to examine themselves. People who use children and are anti-science, who demand that medicine be twisted, that children are mutilated for a power grab instead of improvement of their health should not ever be taken serious and frankly only pitied and reviled. Liberals support and vote for child trafficking, believe the state can forcefully take minors from their parents, be placed in conversion therapy, and unlike gays, because they are children and powerless and these are liberals, tortured and mutilated. Liberals should never moralize to anyone about anything or be taken seriously.
The ironic thing is if it were given a rainbow paint job there would be nothing but kudos.
Maybe paint it black?
With a red door?
Rainbow colors have already been suggested by world@70,
but anyone watching new homes being built recently,
or remodels in since the plandemic
Know.
The Rainbow people at Homo & Gay TV
prefer prison gray with accents of black and white.
With an oversize garage in front for oversize cars for oversize people.
Even the crackerjack boxes I helped build in the 70’s looked better.
And that’s a very low bar.
Those morons should return to their gloomy Estates and beat their brains out on the wall
Wasn”t this building used on the set of The Addams Family?
Will Gomez, Morticia and butler Lurch meet you at the door?
Since it’s Washington DC, it would definitely be Uncle Fester. (That would be a good nickname for Biden.)
Regardless of the architecture, the reason for the leftist tantrum is not about the painting of a building. It’s about the colour of the paint: WHITE. Trump wants to paint a building WHITE. This is the trigger: White and Trump in the same sentence. Drives leftists insane especially if they’re white. White leftists hate white people almost as much as Michelle Obama.
“White leftists hate white people almost as much as Michelle Obama.”
Perfectly put.
Fuck. I hate white lefties. They’re the scum of the Earth. And most of them are ugly chicks.
Uncle Fester, Grandmama Wednesday, Pugsley Thing and Cousin Itt and their Lion Kitty Cat
It must be nice when you whole job is worrying about what color a building is. Do you think all these people should be fired?
Paint it red. MAGA red. And when you look at it from different angles, there’s different holograms of President Trump in the oval office or doing the YMCA dance
Paint it electric blue with glitter!
I don’t find it ugly at all. A little overdone maybe, but it’s an interesting piece of architecture all in all. There’s certainly a lot uglier buildings around.
The real answer is to shrink the government so it’s no longer needed.