Trump issues order to demand new US federal buildings be 'beautiful'

Long-expected executive order disparages architectural modernism but critics say Trump's decree mostly symbolic'

Donald Trump decreed on Monday that all new US federal buildings should be beautiful", in a long-expected executive order which excoriated architectural modernism but stopped short of demanding that all such projects should be in the classical style.

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