"The Blingpire Strikes Back"
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/sep/14/washington-dc-arch-bunker-ballroom-trump-blingfest-achitectural-atrocity
![The Guardian
Architecture
The desecration of DC: from a giant arch to a nuke-proof bunker, Trump’s legacy-building blingfest is an architectural atrocity
[image: A lust for supersizing … the plan for Trump’s triumphal arch. Illustration: US Commission on Fine Arts/Reuters]
A bloated ballroom, a six-storey military HQ, a helipad-cum-cocktail patio, a gilded angel on a giant arch honouring himself … our architecture critic deplores the decorator-in-chief’s mutilation of Washington
Oliver Wainwright
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