The new space will house offices for the first lady, kitchen space, a double-decker colonnade and upgrades to a secure underground military complex.
—
Arden Farhi,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
The prospective renovations, rendered by architect Shalom Baranes, include a ballroom that amounts to a 90,000 square foot addition to the executive mansion, a two-story colonnade (a row of columns supporting a roof) and office space.
But what has resonated most, the words that adorn hundreds of monuments erected in plazas, streets, and playgrounds across the world, is his prophecy that someday the grandes alamedas, the great avenues lined with trees, would open for the free people of tomorrow to walk through.
—
Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
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