This week president Trump unveiled White House expansion plans

This week on Dezeen, president Donald Trump revealed plans to add a neoclassical ballroom to the White House in Washington DC.

Trump commissioned architecture firm McCrery Architects to design the neoclassical ballroom, which will be built on the side of the East Wing.

In Saudi Arabia, mega project Neom is reportedly planning widespread staff redundancies and relocations as part of a wide-ranging strategic review.

According to a report by news website Semafor, Neom is “considering significantly cutting its workforce” with 1,000 employees planned to be made redundant and another 1,000 set to be relocated.

Also in architecture news, car brand Tesla unveiled a “classic American diner” in Los Angeles.

Designed by architecture studio Stantec, the “retro-futuristic” eatery serves meals in Cybertruck packaging and has parking reserved for electric vehicles only.

Elsewhere in the US, the Eames Institute announced plans to create a design museum within a former 1960s warehouse in California.

Set to be developed by architecture studios Herzog & de Meuron and EHDD, the “world-class art and design museum” will occupy a concrete building designed by modernist architect John Savage Bolles, which was most recently owned by Birkenstock.

Popular projects this week included a former barn near Florence converted into a compact house, a US consulate at the Arizona-Mexico border and a stone and concrete Greek holiday home.

Our latest lookbook focused on residential interiors skewed by striking mirrored accents.

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