Egads, it’s ugly! Photo of Chicago’s Obama shrine gets BRUTAL reviews

Bizpac Review ^ | 4-18-25 | Tom Tillison

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A recent photo of the Obama Presidential Center Museum Building is getting brutal reviews, especially so considering it’s in Chicago, a city famous for its stunning architecture.

Still under construction, the building designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects features an exterior wrapped in granite panels. It is but one of a number of buildings on the massive 19-acre Obama Presidential Center campus, which has been priced at about $830 million by the Associated Press.

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Needs some hunter biden finger paintings to brighten it up.

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It looks like a climbing gym.

[Organic Panic]

Seeing how they decorated everything in the White House to look ghetto fab, no wonder this monstrosity was approved. I look forward to it losing tons of money for all the idiots backing that grifting commie.

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well climbing and swinging is in their genes...

[Responsibility2nd]

Last I heard this Library is years overdue, millions over budget, and the DIE contractors are suing each other. And now it’s ugly as hell.

It’s a total cluster bleep.

[SharpenedEdge]

A fitting monument to a communist usurper.

History will not be kind to Obamao.

[tet68]

Looks like a german flak tower from WW2.

[nwrep]

Modernist, brutalist, with an urbanized exterior, looking like a post-apocalyptic missile silo.

[Adder]

And leopard patterned drapes...

It does look like the concrete had too much slump...

[Responsibility2nd]

More here about the delays....

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-has-gone-wrong-with-the-c-rCFp07bSRROesTT5O2nF_Q

[chrisinoc]

That’s DEI architecture for you.

0bama obligated that a substantial amount of the contracts had to be given to minorities.

[sopo]

inspired by those walking robot blasters in the Empire Strikes Back

[TalBlack]

That’s so Soviet Union/East Germany it’s almost unbelievable!!

[BipolarBob]

What's up with the statue in the lobby?

[DouglasKC]

That’s so Soviet Union/East Germany it’s almost unbelievable!!

That's exactly how it impacted me as well.

[antidemoncrat]

I’m sure if this shrine’s location was up to Osama Obama he would have had it replace the White House.

[Leaning Right]

Obama’s library reminds of the flak towers built by the Germans during WW2. So much so that I’m beginning to wonder if the architect is following an old Nazi flak tower plan by mistake.

German flak tower:

[HombreSecreto]

Soviet chic?

[ConservativeMind]

That’s how I took it, as well.