Balloture Awards

Oct 20–23, 2025 East Wing teardown documentation

Visual packaging of irreversible demolition as modernization optics—the image is the argument.

Timestamped YouTube evidence is embedded below for public review. Rights attestation and caption/transcript status remain on the nomination packet.

Washington Post YouTube short

Fair-use / press documentation; editorial review

Lead credit: East Wing demolition optics
Work title: Teardown documentation
Category discipline: Design
Program year: 2026
Evidence: public YouTube record with start-time deep link
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Rights: public-record / press navigation; satire of public statements uses public clips

Public evidence stills

Public YouTube evidence still at the cited start time. Not official photography pool; stills are captured frames from the public record.

Associated years: 2026