A recent photo of the Obama Presidential Center Museum Building is getting brutal reviews, especially so considering it’s in Chicago, a city famous for its stunning architecture.
Still under construction, the building designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects features an exterior wrapped in granite panels. It is but one of a number of buildings on the massive 19-acre Obama Presidential Center campus, which has been priced at about $830 million by the Associated Press.
“Good god, it’s ugly! The Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, Chicago looks a giant concrete cremation urn,” Alexander Lacherbauer post on X, while sharing the photo.
Good god, it’s ugly! The Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, Chicago looks a giant concrete cremation urn. https://t.co/guqhskJwB2
— Alexander Lacherbauer (@lacherbauer) April 16, 2025
“Designed to resemble ‘four hands coming together’, the building topped out in June 2024 and is currently receiving its outermost shell, as seen in images shared by the Obama Foundation,” reported the trade magazine Dezeen. “Grey granite siding largely covers the exterior, while in other areas – such as in cutaway sections on its upper and lower levels – insulating and protective layers are still exposed.”
There was a common theme in the responses to the story, as seen on X — see if you can pick up on what that theme is:
Shit, it looks like the jail downtown!
— Renee (@eeners) April 17, 2025
First I am seeing it. Holy shit! That’s the Obama center⁉️
— Commissioner Sean Morrison (@SeanMMorrison) April 16, 2025
Hideous brutalist post modern mausoleum devoid of any hope, color or inspiration. The bureaucrats who co-signed on this Neo-liberal Death Star must have been rewarded handsomely for selling out the South Side.
— Chi_LastRespondr (@ChiLastRespondr) April 17, 2025
Soviet Brutalist architecture.
— adl0107 (@adl0107) April 17, 2025
It looks straight out of the Soviet Era, which is appropriate.
— Cacciatore (@JonnyCacciatore) April 17, 2025
Literally looks like a prison. Like the Meteopolitan Correctional Center on VanBuren in the south Loop. pic.twitter.com/8yfhMpVcmq
— Aaron (@ltdmstr) April 16, 2025
Communist “architecture” from the 1950s. Perfect.
— Commie Dearest (@CommieDearest1) April 17, 2025
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