Biden revokes Trump's "beautiful" architecture executive order
US president Joe Biden has officially undone Donald Trump's executive order requiring new federal buildings to be built in the classical style, 69 days after it was signed. More
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SOM to build supertall skyscraper on site of Trump's Grand Hyatt New York
Architecture firm Skidmore Owings and Merrill has unveiled plans to build an 83-storey supertall skyscraper on the site of Donald Trump's old Grand Hyatt hotel in New York. More
AIA pledges to undo Trump's "beautiful" architecture order after he leaves
The American Institute of Architects says it "unequivocally opposes" new architecture rules signed by outgoing US president Donald Trump and vows to undo them as soon as his successor takes office. More
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Trump orders new government buildings must be "beautiful"
President Donald Trump has passed an executive order stating new US government buildings must be "beautiful" just one month before Joe Biden takes office. More
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Edel Rodriguez creates "You're fired" graphic after Donald Trump loses 2020 US presidential election
Cuban-American artist Edel Rodriguez has created cartoons lampooning president Donald Trump as a toppling statue and a fired employee after he lost the 2020 US election to Joe Biden. More
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AIA "strongly opposes" Trump administration's rollback of fair housing rule
The American Institute of Architects has criticised the federal government's termination of a provision introduced to help dismantle racial segregation in housing. More
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Trump administration drops threat to deport foreign students studying online
The Trump administration has reversed its decision to strip international students taking online-only courses of their visas, which prompted a lawsuit from MIT and Harvard University. More
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Harvard and MIT sue Trump administration over directive to deport foreign students
Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have sued the Trump administration in federal court to block an order that would mean all international students not attending in-person classes would be stripped of visas. More
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Trump's Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again decries brutalist and deconstructivist architecture
Projects by HOK, Arquitectonica and Morphosis have been singled out for criticism in president Trump's draft executive order for federal buildings, which would outlaw brutalist and deconstructivist styles if it becomes law. More
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"Traditional architecture has frequently been leveraged to support violent political agendas"
A draft order by Donald Trump to make all new federal buildings classical is the latest example of how traditional architecture is used to disguise racist agendas, says Phineas Harper. More
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AIA opposes President Trump's draft rules for Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again
The American Institute of Architects has called on members to sign an open letter to the Trump Administration after a plan to introduce an order that all federal buildings should be built in the "classical architectural style" was discovered. More
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Trump unveils divisive logo for new Space Force military branch
The official logo of the US Space Force, revealed by Donald Trump on Twitter, has proven controversial on social media with some calling it a Star Trek knock-off. More
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AIA denounces Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement
The American Institute of Architects has called for Donald Trump to reverse his "shortsighted decision" to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement amid the global climate crisis. More
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Satirical Trumpcare IUD comes with hand extensions for extra protection
Donald Trump's head and hands adorn this IUD, which was created as a commentary on the US president's regulations of women's access to birth control services. More
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Five designs that challenge Trump's US-Mexico border wall
Following the installation of seesaws across the US-Mexico border wall, we've pulled together five examples of projects by architects and designers that respond to US president Donald Trump's plans to develop a wall between the two countries. More
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Rael San Fratello slots pink seesaws into US-Mexico border wall
Architectural studio Rael San Fratello has installed three pink seesaws between the metal slats of the US-Mexico border wall so that children on either side can play together. More
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Trump's New York towers face million dollar fines under Green New Deal
New York mayor Bill de Blasio has warned president Donald Trump that he could be fined up to $2.1 million if he doesn't retrofit his towers in the city to meet new environmental targets. More
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Trump Comb-over watch goes into production following April Fools prank
Swedish company TRIWA is selling a limited-edition watch that features the hair of US president Donald Trump as hands, after the success of an April Fools-day prank. More
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Tucker Viemeister's blacked-out US Flag criticises redacted Mueller Report
American industrial designer Tucker Viemeister has created a graphic that shows the US flag with portions blocked out, to critique the redacted release of the investigation into president Donald Trump's collusion with Russia. More
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Trump's border wall could sever Elon Musk's SpaceX Texas launchpad
The SpaceX port that Elon Musk is building in Boca Chica, Texas, for launching commercial rockets to Mars, is at risk of being cut in two by Donald Trump's US-Mexico border wall. More
