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Posted on 12/27/2025 9:34:25 AM PST by bitt
Before I started writing at PJ Media, I spent about 15 years as an architectural designer. I never really loved the work, mostly because I never worked at a firm that tackled the kind of big, ambitious projects that really excited me. But even if I had, there's one project I would've hated regardless: the Obama Presidential Center. And trust me, it’s not just because it's Obama's vanity project.
The building is hideous.
The Obama Presidential Center is a 225-foot-tall gray monstrosity rising on Chicago's South Side, and it looks more like a prison than a museum. The project has been divisive even before people knew how hideous it would be, and now Chicago residents will be stuck with a big, grey eyesore in their neighborhood. It may be the perfect metaphor for Obama’s presidency, but it’s architecturally offensive, and I almost have to think the Obamas can’t be happy with it, but are stuck pretending to love it.
Well, after all these years of people trashing the design, the Obama Center is speaking out against the backlash.
"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.
"There are not a lot of windows on the building, but that's intentional, because sunlight is just not a friend to the artwork and the artifacts that are going inside of the building," Patterson told CBS News
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“There are not a lot of windows on the building, but that’s intentional, because sunlight is just not a friend to”....the servants of Satan.
In fifty years or less, it will be converted into a prison.
Imprison Obama himself in it!!
Come on people. No need to not like the building just because we don’t like him.
Flakturm.
Flakturm were contructed out of about 15 feet of reinforced concrete. They would be incredably difficult to remove so they dot the German and Austrian landscape to the present day. Maybe they are a reminder of the folly of war.
If the Obama Library and Massage Parlor is built to Obama standards, the first high wind that hits Chicago (where it is never windy) will take it down.
It’s a statement about unifying the country, because it presents us something we can all agree on.
My liking or disliking the building has nothing to due with him. It is just a butt ugly slab of concrete.
The building is an eyesore. Even if it had been designed by Standford White, it was placed in middle of a beautiful and popular park. No one wanted it.
NO. Don't give him that much credit.
He had years to review the plans, and no doubt countless iterations were presented to him.
Also, imagine the narcissism of someone putting up such a huge, expensive, and controversial monument (especially such a hideous one) to oneself, while one is still very much alive and active.
Its truly a cult of personality.
One of the ugliest buildings ever built.
The Obama Center is ugly because it represents a president who was a lying, perverted, murdering traitor to the United States of America.
“sunlight is just not a friend”
Best summary of the Obama administration I’ve ever seen.
…who has privatized all his documents
one big fire trap.........
Well, hey, I got to see both Monticello (Thomas Jefferson) and Highland (James Monroe) in one day during a trip to Virginia. Both very nice places needless to say.
It is a massive tomb. It is a symbol of death.He can fill it up with all his cronies. There will never be any artwork. He hates black people it is a huge FU to Chicago. He knew nobody would ever visit so now it is the building not him personally they are rejecting.
U.G.L.Y. we don’t need no alibi, it’s ugly, yeah it is a friggin’ architectural boil. A cancer in a very dangerous city, peopled by crooks, gangs and drug addicts.
It is A perfect metaphor for how Obama sees himself. An example to people too imperfect to see that he is THE perfect President for all time.
Agreed, and intentionally so. Kinda like the rebuild of the De Young Museum in San Francisco...
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