David Pakman

Architects are looking at the plan and they are saying this makes no sense.

Now start with the basics.

And we have this funny image we have up on the screen that The New York Times put together with just a lot of the architectural and design problems here.

The design includes this giant portico with columns and stairs, which sounds impressive, except the stairs don't even lead into the ballroom.

It's stairs to nowhere.

You know, they talk about a bridge to nowhere.

The stairs go nowhere.

The columns will block views.

from inside the ballroom.

So you build this massive event space and then you obstruct the view with your own design.

The portico doesn't have doors into the ballroom.

So you go up this grand entrance and there's just no way in.

You have to go around the side to the side door.

It's like designing a house where the front door is decorative.

Now, it gets even worse.

The ballroom is massive.

It's much bigger than industry standards suggest for the number of people it's designed to hold.

Smaller events will feel really weird, kind of awkwardly empty.

But the real issues here, I would argue, are bigger than bad design.

Like with Trump, there's probably bad design lurking somewhere, but there's far bigger issues.