A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Kennedy Center to give 30 days' notice before making any major physical changes to the building, including demolishing it as President Donald Trump has threatened.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said his ruling would “avoid any confusion on that score given more recent events,” including the abrupt closure of the building to the public on Wednesday.

Matt Floca, the Kennedy Center's executive director and chief operating officer, said he temporarily closed the iconic performing arts center due to "acute risks to public safety resulting from continued structural deterioration" of the aging building.

The building will be closed for at least seven days to "assess existing safety risks in those portions of the main building exhibiting severe structural deterioration," Floca said.

The unannounced temporary closure is distinct from a Tuesday vote by the Kennedy Center’s board to shut the performing arts center indefinitely for repairs, according to Floca and other officials.

Floca stated that the closure was prompted by an inspection of the roof terrace canopy and a partial ceiling collapse earlier this month.

He added that the closure may be extended pending an evaluation next week.

Trump, whom board loyalists named the Kennedy Center's chairman last year, said on Wednesday that his efforts to restore the aging building deserved recognition, "because frankly, if we don't do that, it's going to close.

It'll end up being ripped down.

It's in very, very bad shape, very dangerous shape."

The closure announcement followed a court case filed by a Democratic congresswoman who is a trustee and who sought an emergency court hearing to prevent what she called the building's "unlawful closing."

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Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat and an ex-officio member of the Kennedy Center board, has spearheaded efforts to prevent Trump's name from being affixed to the building.

On Tuesday, during a virtual board meeting, Beatty engaged in a verbal confrontation with the Republican president.

In a court filing on Thursday, Beatty’s lawyers asserted that the board members’ “rationale that they are only temporarily closing the Kennedy Center is a plain pretext to justify shutting down the Center permanently.

The facts before the Court are deeply concerning.”

Cooper turned down a request from Beatty’s legal team to hold a hearing to clarify the board’s actions and intent.

But he agreed to their request “to make crystal clear” that his order prohibits demolition of the building without 30 days’ notice.

The board aligned with Trump, chaired by the president, voted to close the center after Cooper blocked the institution from restoring Trump's name to the building.

Congress has allocated $257 million to cover the repairs, but Trump said they would only happen if the board was allowed to move forward with plans to add his name to the building.

On Thursday, Barbra Streisand, who was honored by the Kennedy Center in 2008, questioned the decision to close the center for repairs and described the controversy surrounding its operation as “galling and painful to witness.”

Regarding Trump's attempts to add his name to the center, she said in a statement to Reporters: “You can easily imagine my indignation at seeing this revered institution become the subject of such a bitter struggle over one man's name and unchecked ego.”

In August, the Kennedy Center board voted to inscribe Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center’s facade, so that it would read “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Restored and Renovated By President Donald J. Trump.”

If the Trump Kennedy Center Fund reached $100 million, another inscription would be added, reading “Endowed by the Trump Kennedy Center Fund.”

The plaza situated in front of the Kennedy Center would likewise have been renamed in Trump's honor.

Cooper summarily dismissed all of those proposals on Tuesday, ruling that nothing could proceed “without Congress’s blessing.”

In May, Cooper ruled that the Kennedy Center had unlawfully appended Trump’s name to the building, ordering its removal.

The institution’s leadership complied in June, yet left a tarp and scaffolding in place where Trump’s name had once been displayed.

Streisand told AP she felt deeply honored to be part of the 31st annual class of Kennedy Center Honorees, adding, “for me, and for so many artists, that honor represented something larger than a career recognition.

It represented a belief in the importance of art to the life of a democracy.”