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Obama's $1 Billion Presidential Library Looks Like A Tower Of Doom
October 17, 2025, 03:16 PM
pbslingerObama's $1 Billion Presidential Library Looks Like A Tower Of Doom
That's the support structure for a giant dildo.
October 17, 2025, 03:17 PM
Biker_dude
October 17, 2025, 03:18 PM
Biker_dude
October 17, 2025, 03:19 PM
Biker_dude
October 17, 2025, 03:22 PM
Biker_dude
October 17, 2025, 04:20 PM
egregoreA billion with a B dollars? A portable outhouse in the desert costs just a few hundred.
"The Almighty, He put some livin' things on this earth so a man can eat." - Festus Haggen, Gunsmoke October 17, 2025, 04:27 PM
rscalzo
October 17, 2025, 04:33 PM
92fstechI've seen it in person. It's just as bad in real life.
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October 17, 2025, 04:49 PM
slosigKinda like the inDUHvidual it’s named after.
October 17, 2025, 04:54 PM
OgieOh jeez. The eye of Sauron.
October 17, 2025, 04:54 PM
armoredLooks like the inspiration for the design was not that far away, resembles the Metro Correctional Center in downtown Chicago.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/metro...ional-center-chicagoOctober 17, 2025, 06:20 PM
wrightdquote:
Originally posted by YooperSigs:
We in the Midwest call that a grain elevator.
Winner ! Grain elevators look better.
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Wile E. Coyote School of DIY Disaster October 17, 2025, 06:44 PM
mjlennonquote:
Originally posted by Rey HRH:
The Obama Presidential Center (often referred to as the Obama Presidential Library) was designed by the architectural firm Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners, led by the husband-and-wife duo Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.
The Architect firm has previously designed a very similar structure, The Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago. Seems they have a penchant for monolithic or Brutalist-adjacent aesthetic. Not sure how they sold the concept to the Obama's; it's different...
October 17, 2025, 07:20 PM
smlsigIt’s an OBAMANATION…
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Eddie
Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina
October 17, 2025, 07:33 PM
trapper189It’s only a short trip from LSD to see that building.
October 17, 2025, 07:58 PM
ZSMICHAELWhat a mess. Architects from around the country come to Chicago to study the grand architecture and now Obama has put the proverbial turd in the punch bowl.
October 17, 2025, 08:50 PM
Rey HRHquote:
Originally posted by mjlennon:
The Architect firm has previously designed a very similar structure, The Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago. Seems they have a penchant for monolithic or Brutalist-adjacent aesthetic. Not sure how they sold the concept to the Obama's; it's different...
I'm not piling on Obama's building as there's no need to. But that building has a certainly different and admirable look that the one they did for Obama.
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October 17, 2025, 09:02 PM
Rick LeeIs there any mention of what admission will cost? I went to the Nixon Library long ago, but they were a customer, so I didn't have to pay. But I think these are not cheap to visit. Is there any kind of business plan for the admission revenue to repay investors here?
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October 17, 2025, 09:18 PM
JoseyWales2It makes the German Flak Towers of WWII look like works of art in comparison.
It also reminds me of Soviet style apartment blocks built during the Cold War.
Flak Tower
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October 18, 2025, 06:56 AM
shovelheadWell there’s another reason to avoid Chicago….
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