A piece of the Kennedy Center's Grand Foyer ceiling collapsed Friday evening during a storm that battered the Washington, D.C. area, tearing a large hole in the space and scattering debris across the red-carpeted hallway that connects the center's three main theaters.

No one was injured, but the Grand Foyer — the marble-floored hall famous for its Robert Berks bust of John F. Kennedy and river-facing windows — has remained closed to the public and nonessential staff through the week, according to ABC News' reporting on the collapse.

"Decades of neglect"

Kennedy Center vice president Roma Daravi said the structural failure "stems from decades of neglect and deferred maintenance by the previous leadership," laying blame on the arts complex's management before the Trump-aligned board took control earlier this year, per The Hill's coverage of the statement.

DECADES OF NEGLECT, ONE STORM, A HOLE IN THE CEILING

The timing hands ammunition to the center's board, which has been fighting in court to move ahead with a $250 million renovation plan that would add Trump's name to the building's facade and close the center's stages for roughly two years during construction. Critics of the plan have accused the board of manufacturing urgency around the center's physical condition to justify a project that would upend its programming, a tension NBC News detailed in its report on the renewed shutdown push.

What's next

The board's push for the two-year closure and renovation remains before the courts, and Friday's collapse is expected to feature prominently in that fight. In the meantime, performances in the center's theaters have continued on schedule even as the Grand Foyer itself stays roped off, with officials saying a full engineering assessment of the historic building is now underway.