I still think it looks like a public trash can…
The Obama Presidential Center is breaking its silence after years of criticism over its unconventional design, with an Obama Foundation official now addressing public questions about the project.
Construction began in 2021, and Chicagoans have had mixed reviews about the design for the 225-foot-tall structure. The gray, mostly windowless building is on Chicago’s South Side and will serve as a presidential center and museum.
Obama Foundation Deputy Director Kim Patterson said the design of the building was a specific choice, including its lack of windows.
Full article, HERE from Fox News.
In addition to being well over budget, it’s also butt ugly. But that’s just ‘my’ opinion.
Over the years there have been a number of ‘questionable’ decisions apparently made by various folks involved with the foundation, including some interesting disbursements of funds and the lack of certain supposedly inviolate funds to back the whole mess.
And since it’s in Chiraq, I won’t ever be visiting in, so let them do what they want, I don’t care…
“In addition to being well over budget, it’s also butt ugly.”
Could be a metaphor for the eight years of Obama’s presidency.
Never mind. The Biden Presidential Bookshelf presumably will be too small to cause much trouble.
The Library project was a way to pay back some of those who helped him gain power in the earlier years before he became a Senator and them president.
Lots of opportunities for Graft in that building, and exceptionally high profit margins too.
It’s the Chicago Way.
Trash can or beefed up fire training structure. Agree with Nuke.
Obama Foundation Deputy Director Kim Patterson said the design of the building was a specific choice, including its lack of transparency.
Fixed it for you Kim
Garbage in, garbage out.
To me, it looks like a large concrete termite mound like those found in Africa. If that is the inspiration for the design, it makes sense.
It’s as ugly as Obozo’s husband Michael
Call it what it is , a giant buttplug . A fitting tribute to Barry & Mike.
X2
Here is another place with no windows.
https://mohmuseum.org/
I believe if Fearless Reader attempted entry, he might spontaneously burst into flame. I’d pay to see that. Wife and I have been to the museum. It is so much more than just another museum. It is outstanding.
It would be a shame if the building collapsed and innocent people were killed.
The artistic choices are one thing. The structurally relevant choices pushed by racewar ideologues are another.
(There were disputes about some of the concrete work, with certain contractors accusing other contractors of being racist.)
My basic feeling is that it should not be replaced if the building project fails or if the building has to be torn down. Any historically important documents can probably be stored in some other library, like Bush’s, or something.
Most hilarious would be if the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library acquires all unique Biden regime and Obama regime documents.
And, come on, Michelle is an actual woman, it is simply that the evidence for that is not flattering to Barack.
When she met him, she stopped smiling, he sucked the joy from her life.
He’s a hateful ideologue who makes people around him who share his thinking miserable.
Wait for the Graffiti. It will be epic.
So much for “transparency”. The irony of no windows is not lost on me. More like a Soviet communist building. Meh.
All- You DO raise some interesting points… just sayin
It reminds me of the German flak towers built around Berlin and other targets in WWII.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Wien_-_Flakturm_Augarten_%281%29.JPG/1280px-Wien_-_Flakturm_Augarten_%281%29.JPG
But the German flak towers looked much Better
Trashcan? NFO, you’re being polite.
It looks like a bad copy of the monolith at the start of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Brutalist architects are shaking their heads and muttering, “Now THAT’s taking things a bit far.”
Funnily enough, back before I knew enough about construction science, I identified with the big concrete box school of architecture.
Basically, big concrete box tries to capture the cosmetics of engineering, but has nothing really to do with the essence of engineering. (Maybe like the scrapbooking method of creating cinema does cosmetics but not essence of industrial engineering.)
That buildings are experienced by many humans during the building’s life is a bit important compared to the experiences of the people who design and build them. A pretty building that people like and think fits the artistic environment of the surroundings is inherently neither very much of a construction cost nor very much of a design cost.
This is basically like a lot of other left art, a deliberate choice of ugly or evil to offend the senses of the more conventional thinkers outside of the party.
VOGON Construction Fleet ship from “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” series
As a kid, I used to visit that area for the Museum of Science and Industry. Post college, I moved to the Left coast, but had family near Chicago, so I’d visit. Wanted to fit in another trip to MoS&I, but by the time I actually had enough time in the visit, the neighborhood was way too sketchy for a white boy like me. (I also figured that out-of-state license plates would have increased the target on the car.)
With the addition of the Concrete Mess*, I have more reasons to avoid that visit. Shame, growing up I didn’t have the pocket money to visit the U-boat.
(*) It reminds me of the Imperial walkers in The Empire Strikes Back, though they looked better.
All- Thanks, and some more good points!