Posted on 11/28/2019 10:58:30 AM PST by Libloather
While promoting his book “Southern Exposure” about architectural design on the South Side, former Sun-Times architecture critic Lee Bey questioned both the design of the Obama Presidential Center and its proposed placement in Jackson Park.
“The design of the library, I do not like. I think that that tower is foolishness. I think the design is foolishness,” Bey said. “It’s clad in limestone or granite; it’s shoved in this park. If it’s going to be in a park, I think I say in the book, it needs to be a more organic and alive building.”
He further questioned the necessity of establishing it in a park at all, suggesting a site in Washington Park near the Garfield Green Line station would be a better option as a “vertical, modern, transit-oriented asset to the neighborhood,” spurring applause from attendees of his Nov. 26 talk at the Silver Room, 1506 E. 53rd St.
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Good eye. It looks like “I’m not a Muslim,” repeated.
I wonder, has there ever been a MAJOR competition where architects had to submit to blind testing, where their names were not used, but only their drawings were displayed? I’d really like to know.
It looks like the type of “modern” building they would put up in the former East Germany. Or maybe it looks like Darth Vader’s summer home.
Exactly! the very first thing I thought when I saw it was Star Wars.
Obama has been hiding those records....nothing there for his 8 years.
The TOWER is to go along with the “Greek Columns’ used by the DNC when he was presented in Denver.
The Kenyan usurper still thinks he can walk on water....
ALso- His multiple passport records-—all of them-—and the records of his multiple trips in & out of the Middle East when he was a ‘student’.
“””””””Notice that it’s not being called a “Library” any more since they found out that there was no book to put in it.””””
Of course they have books to put in it ......but they have all been colored in already.
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