Tour of Obama Presidential Center showcases playgrounds, gardens, among other attractions – CBS2 (Chicago)

obama-presidential-center-canvas.jpg "The shape of the building was actually meant to mimic four hands coming together to show the importance of our collective action," said tour guide Kim Patterson, who grew up in the nearby South Shore community.
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Fullbladder
5 months ago

It’s perfect employment location for “restorative justice” individuals to turn their lives around.

Bob
5 months ago

Like his administration . Gaslighting the citizens. Architect was smoking weed when designing it !!

Frankns
5 months ago

Unbelievably ugly … It mocks us all.

Irish Patriot
5 months ago

The Obama Presidential Center embodies a stark, monolithic aesthetic that screams Putin/Communist architecture, with its gray granite-clad tower rising like a windowless sentinel straight out of Moscow’s brutalist-heavy Ostankino District, where drab concrete monoliths dominate the skyline and stifle any sense of openness. Operated by the private Obama Foundation under his direct influence rather than the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which traditionally oversees presidential libraries for public accountability, this setup centralizes control in the hands of one elite figure, bypassing government oversight in true authoritarian fashion, much as authoritarians like Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev, Khrushchev and now Putin with… Read more »

anna
5 months ago

“There are not a lot of windows on the building, but that’s intentional because sunlight
is not a friend to the artwork and the artifacts that are going inside of the building” said Obama Foundation Director Kim Patterson.

So that makes sense.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant so you can’t have that.
It might actually shed some light on how truly bad the Obama administration was.

Chaos In My Brain
5 months ago

Playground? Little kids? SloJoe biden will visit often

failed jogger
5 months ago

It looks like a grain elevator in the ghetto.

Pat S.
5 months ago

Ugly building – likely designed to be riot resistant – definitely not designed to be esthetically pleasing.

Brian Jones
5 months ago

I can kinda see the 4 hands thing. If all four hands are cut off at the wists.

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