>>9863442 Expanding the White House grounds into a series of venues and gardens containing more statues

1. Primarily, the White House should be about the current President and the policy goals he was elected to implement

1. Consider an organic and integrated gallery of sculptures, not a mishmash junkyard or stoic, overpowering parade of sculptures that would dominate the White House grounds.

1. Greatly expand the White House grounds, annexing Lafayette Square, The Ellipse, entire contiguous Federal District streets and perhaps half of all outside boundary streets. Reduce the outside boundary streets to one-way streets to better restrict traffic flows and provide enhanced security.

1. Recent foreign-funded riots show the secure corridor around the White House is too small and provides an opportunity for foreign intelligence services and militaries to exploit. I would remove all White House grounds surface parking to better protect the polar ice caps or something. Hairless moles. Himalayan Salmon streams.

1. There is no reason Lafayette Square could not have 5+ levels of staff parking underneath it AND be incorporated as the top half of the North Lawn. A removable interior fence could allow the park to continue as daytime public space, while entirely available for large White House events. Consider 500 lb. removable block foundations with locks for each interior fence post.

1. The Ellipse, if annexed, is so large that it could house both massive underground parking and a deep underground White House Welcome Center – similar to Nancy Pelosi’s $1 billion Capital Hill food court. There could be large underground parking garages beneath the eastern and western quarters of The Ellipse, leave the central half for an underground welcome center. Create a more imaginative name that evokes some grandeur for the welcome center. It could be or contain a White House museum.

1. The Ellipse could have an interior fencing system – put Chad Wolf in charge – could be similarly modular and removable as the one bordering Lafayette Square/North Lawn interior.

1. Consider Pershing Square to be replaced by a grand entrance to the White House, The Pennsylvania Avenue Gate. Four or Five gates around the grounds, including onto The Ellipse from the Mall, would provide more of a sense of an event for visitors. Reframing The Ellipse and Lafayette Square as White House grounds, would mean daytime tourists could say they were on the White House grounds while visiting those parks – when they weren’t being used for White House events.

1. Consider a monumental outdoor pavilion on the expanded grounds, but out of frame of the central view from the Mall, the Ellipse or Lafayette Square. Twenty feet until the first beam, complicated gabled copper roof. Sequoia columns. Something to celebrate western and southern state culture. A great rock wall could be constructed facing the exterior of the grounds that could have a relief sculpture on both sides, or have a huge fireplace on the interior.

1. While not EO approved styles, a large banqueting space designed in either Beaux Arts or modified Romanesque Revival could be constructed on the grounds opposite an open air pavilion, with the main entrance from the exterior of the grounds. A flamboyant entrance but muted design facing the interior White House grounds, so as not to overshadow the Executive Mansion. The large hall could be used for state dinners, other events and be a gallery when not in use for the Smithsonian art collection or interior sculptures. A banquet hall and event center for the White House and a museum for tourists.

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1. Consider using the real estate beneath any new buildings, as it is wasted otherwise. A tennis court, a pool, office space, smaller banquet halls, etc.

1. A children’s sculpture garden could be considered. This could be a fun mess, even with shallow fountains. It could be literary characters, but perhaps should rather be historical figures when they were children. Interactive, something to take pictures with.

1. Consider impermanent sculpture placements. Use the grounds as a gallery. Design the spaces and new venues in such a way that each can house portraits or sculptures and those collections can be rotated. Consider 1, 2, 3, 5 or 10 year placements for different categories of figures. Founding fathers perhaps longer rotations, military figures rotated more frequently, civil and social figures more frequently. Each rotation creates a press event and another reason for citizens to visit the White House.

1. Consider fewer statues on pedestals and more designs that are interactive and solicit pictures from visiting citizens and families. Taking a photo home or posting online with one’s family next to a statue is more useful to the republic than looking up at a guy on a horse, yawning and leaving.

1. Each new venue can have statues or a collection of them that rotates over time or for historical anniversaries. The venues themselves can have general themes. Modularize the grounds into themed venues, while maintain northern and southern views of the White House. Many tribute statues to fill bitchy ethnic quotas could be indoor statues under a pavilion or inside a new banquet hall.

1. Try and find at least one Mexican-American to include to shut everyone up. Set aside space specifically for military ceremonies and sculptures.

1. Please don’t line up a bunch of statues in rows like a cemetery or soviet statue junk yard.

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>>9937019

Consider borrowing some statues from private collections or other countries for rotations.

Carlos Slim Helu, for instance, owns Rodin's The Thinker.

Generate press, promote international relationships, increase visitor and citizen traffic to the expanded grounds.