Truman Balcony House. Truman Balcony The Truman Balcony is the second-floor balcony of the Executive Residence of the White House, which overlooks the south lawn. It was completed in March 1948, during the presidency of Harry S. Truman. Truman's plans to build a balcony off the Yellow Oval Room were controversial. Truman argued that the addition of a balcony would provide shade for the first floor portico, avoiding the need for awnings, and would balance the White House's south face by breaking up the long verticals created by the columns. Critics of the proposal, including members of the Commission of Fine Arts,
Club of the factory named after Peter Alekseev club was converted into housing for workers. The club of the factory in its architecture is very different from most other Moscow houses of culture of that period. Since this is essentially a country club building, the architect was not limited to the small size of the site. For this reason, the club was made not of high-rise, but rather stretched in length. The second floor was originally only a small part of the building. On the first floor there is an auditorium and associated rooms. The foyer of the first floor is quite spacious. It continues into a wide