Obama's $1 Billion Presidential Library Looks Like A Tower Of Doom

That's the support structure for a giant dildo.

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A billion with a B dollars? A portable outhouse in the desert costs just a few hundred.

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I've seen it in person. It's just as bad in real life.

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Kinda like the inDUHvidual it’s named after.

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Oh jeez. The eye of Sauron.

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Looks like the inspiration for the design was not that far away, resembles the Metro Correctional Center in downtown Chicago.

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We in the Midwest call that a grain elevator.

Winner ! Grain elevators look better.

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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...

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It’s an OBAMANATION…

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It’s only a short trip from LSD to see that building.

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What 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.

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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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Is 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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It 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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Well there’s another reason to avoid Chicago….

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