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Architect Shalom Baranes has presented an updated, “more-graceful” design of the proposed White House ballroom and suggested adding a storey to the West Wing for symmetry. Baranes explained that, after taking over the project from original architect McCrery Architects, his studio will build upon the previous scheme. Baranes’ plans include placing a 22,000-square-foot (2,043-square-metre) ballroom

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Researchers have found that buildings demolished during the 21st century in European cities had a shorter lifespan than those in US cities. A report titled Lifetimes of demolished buildings in US and European cities, published in the peer-reviewed Buildings & Cities journal, compared the ages of around 15,000 buildings demolished in nine US cities and

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National Capital Planning Commission chairman Will Scharf has suggested the planned stadium by architecture studio HKS for the NFL team Washington Commanders should have a “classical” design. According to reporting by Washington Business Journal, Scharf said the stadium should incorporate “architectural features in keeping with the capital more generally – classical, neoclassical elements that will align it

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Portuguese studio OODA has designed a training centre for Saudi football club Al Nassr, which will have a triangular-patterned facade informed by the country’s traditional architecture. Currently under construction beside the club’s existing Al-Awwal Park stadium in Riyadh, the 4,000-square-metre House of Nassr complex, will comprise two training pitches alongside indoor facilities. A pair of rectilinear volumes

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