Posted on 01/04/2018 3:38:36 PM PST by PBRCat
The federal government has invited comments on “adverse effects” the Obama Presidential Center may have on Jackson Park and a leading landscape advocacy group has big ones: the planned iconic high-rise tower... and not taking into account the historic Frederick Law Olmsted designs for the related Midway Plaisance and Washington Park.
Olmsted’s design “was intended to lead visitors on a choreographed journey through passages of landscape scenery. Neither the location nor the disposition of the roads were accidental,” wrote Charles Birnbaum, the president and CEO of the nonprofit Cultural Landscape Foundation in a submission for the federal review.
These South Side parks have a history stretching back to 1869, when the Illinois General Assembly carved out 1,055 acres for permanent open space. Olmsted and his partner, Calvert Vaux, already known for Central Park in New York, completed their designs for the Chicago parks in 1871. Jackson and Washington parks were connected via the Midway.
Jackson Park and the Midway were listed on the federal National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Washington Park was added to the register in 2004.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
O the irony.
Obama Center is going to do more damage to the Jackson Park area than Global Climate Change.
I always thought that dumping tons of raw sewage on the ground was against the law to start with.
Even though it is called “historic”, the park is really just one more example of the white-supremecist, patriarchy inherent in everything built in this country prior to 2008...
Ingrates!
After all he’s let them do for him and The Mooch this is the thanks he gets!
Obama should just tell these whiners to keep their park - that he is going to go build his presidential library in his own home country.
Here’s a link to ann image of the proposed building.
http://www.trbimg.com/img-595d8688/turbine/ct-obama-presidential-center-jackson-park-phot-004
Why does it need to be that big?
I can’t really think of anything of importance that would go in there, nor can I recall any of his accomplishments.
An apartment would cover most of it but, when Trump is through dismantling Obama’s legacy it should fit in a broom closet....
The cornerstone to the Obama Presidential Center ought to be inscribed as follows:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away
Right on!
As I recall, the Gerald Ford Library is just one floor.
Because the first design wasn't large enough to house his ego.
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Why are they mostly so damned ugly?
Reagan is designed as a mission and is as stunning as it is memorable....
The Boob Belt and Hideous Clothes exhibit in the Wookie Wing takes up a lot of room
...and don’t forget michael’s “tranny” hall.
Don’t forget the Tunnel of Reggie Love boat ride
This will never happen in this location.
Never.
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Hahah, the building kinda looks like a giant hut.
Kinda like when they made the statue of MLK on the National Mall, White.
Will probably kind of hard to differentiate from the Jarrett family slums!
Gotta say, that is one ugly sumbitch.
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