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Posted on 11/14/2025 1:30:15 AM PST by Libloather
Anger is brewing over former President Barack Obama’s decision to build his presidential library in the heart of a historic Chicago park.
Costing $850 million, the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in Jackson Park began in 2021 and will conclude next spring.
The problem is that many locals do not care for the odd-looking building that is his library, invading their community.
“Obama, of all people, should not be building a palace for himself, a fortress in the middle of a public park,” famous Chicago-area architect Grahm Balkany, a left-winger, told the New York Post. “It’s just contrary to what I thought he believed in.”
“So many people in Chicago, unfortunately, didn’t want to speak truth to power — especially when that power was Obama,” he added.
Balkany wasn’t wrong. Obama is worshipped so much by the left that criticizing the former president in any way is unfathomable to them.
That said, Balkany isn’t entirely alone in his public criticisms.
“I always see it as a cenotaph, a tombstone, a crusader fortress in brutalist style,” W.J.T. Mitchell, a University of Chicago art historian, told the Post, describing Obama’s stone library.
“It’s not a beautiful building. Its monumentality violates the spirit of the democratic urban park,” he added, referencing park-designer Fredrick Law Olmsted’s vision for the space.
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“rebar spacing”
There was a 15-story building in Seattle. Somebody forgot to coat the rebar ends (or perhaps it was coated cables) where they cut it. And I guess numerous inspectors forgot to check.
A few years in they noticed the rust. Millions of dollars of repairs couldn’t fix it. They had to tear down the 5(?) year old building.
Looks like a concrete outhouse
It looks like Squidward s house from SpongeBob.
It belongs in Mecca, not Chicago.
The new Northwestern university football stadium cost the same $850 million.
No doubt hundreds of millions of bribes & payoffs for obamatollah's masterpiece.
It doesn’t matter what the critics think. Much ado about nothing. Building will go up and the worshipers will visit-build it and they will come.
Some people have too much time on their hands.
Will the hundreds of millions of bribes & payoffs for obamatollah’s masterpiece ever be exposed?
Highly doubtful...
It would be a shame if Shauni Rae Kerkhoff planted one of her “toys” at that monstrosity.
“But muh ballroom!”
Destroying beauty is what communists do.
The Brutal-style architecture that came into America was no accident.
I think Obama will be surprised how modest the number of worshipers he actually has. They will come for a few years, but I doubt there will be much of a second generation.
The next mayoral candidate has to promise that if elected, h/she will demolish the building as a litmus test.
Beautiful Temple, stopped there many times driving to/from Chicago while my dad was stationed at Ft Sheridan. Thanks for the remembrance.
Looks like a monument to Communism; something one would see in the former Soviet Union. But, then, it’s Zero’s dream, so...
“It’s just contrary to what I thought he believed in.”
This statement pretty much sums up what most of us here on FR already knew.
The Kenyan born, Indonesian “Foreign Student” was a facade, thrust into the US political scene from nowhere, after being groomed by evil forces.
Stupid liberals fawned over, and were mesmerized by the slick looking half Negro, and voted for “what they thought he believed in”.
He was a total scam, and they were total fools.
“It’s not a beautiful building. Its monumentality violates the spirit of the democratic urban park,”
How Dare the left wing nut question a monument to King Obama!
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