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Everything We Know About The New East Wing Construction
Business & Networking
- When:
- December 22, 2025 · 8:00 AM
- Where:
- City Cast DC
- Source:
- City Cast DC
Shalom Baranes is one of Washington’s most prolific architects and the designer behind a lot of the most prominent modern buildings of the past few decades. So how did he wind up as the new architect of Donald Trump’s White House ballroom? After all, Trump has promised classical beauty and old-school design. Douglas Fruehling from the Washington Business Journal has covered Baranes for years and explains what this all means — about the ballroom, and, more generally, about the work of erecting bu