‘Like a Klingon prison’: inside Barack Obama’s audacious, near-windowless, $850m presidential library – The Guardian

"Beyond the neighbouring public housing, you can also see a clutch of new luxury apartment towers that have shot up in the last decade – a result of the Obama gentrification effect that local residents accurately feared the new centre would bring. ... Just like his presidency, the Obama campus was no doubt conceived with the best of intentions. And, as with his time in office, the impact of this mighty stone monument to hope looks set to be equally mixed."
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