There is an end in sight for a pair of years-long federal reviews of the Obama Presidential Center, and based on a Thursday briefing we now know City Hall will not insist on replacement land outside of Jackson Park to make up for the 19.3 acres the complex will occupy. — Chicago Sun Times
President Obama chose to build his presidential center in Jackson Park, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was designed by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. This is what sparked the series of reviews around the project. Lyn Sweet of the Chicago Sun Times writes that, "the debate over the use of a historic park has over the years...exposed race and class fault lines in Chicago when it comes to the questions of whose voices should prevail in the fate of a historic park."
City Hall held a webinar to work through preservation concerns around the park, and Sweet reports that the reviews could be done soon.
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What sane people go to libraries anymore . What a waste of resources.
Congrats on earning my first ever thumbs down on this website.
Where can all the academics go once they're defunded, if not to the library ;-)
The Obama Center is not a presidential library (seriously). The documents from the Administration are to be stored elsewhere. It is a learning center for teaching political viewpoints.
viewpoints?
Viewpoint. US taxpayer dollars are used in portions of the scheme. Many of the south side residents (black 'folks', as Obama would say) want nothing to do with it. They want their Olmstead-designed park left alone. God knows they deserve that.
You're conflating your own opinions of the project with the views of others.
Lol at all of you snowflakes are up in arms. What can you learn here that you couldn’t online? Libraries are dinosaurs. Don’t you think this is a huge waste? A chunk of nature has to be taken out because of this useless building. I used to go to libraries, but want to give homeless people space to watch porn. The Southside needs to focus on c
urbing shootings anyway. Love my down likes because I want to think differently than your awful points of view.
ignorance is a contrary point of view, true.
i hope, in my lifetime, to see an end to these goddamn landscape renders where you just pack the fuck out of the frame with program and activity. i also feel for the overworked mvva staff (usually visa workers) who get abused as "render monkeys" (exact words i've heard from michael) then spat out after two years, while the near 100% white project management staff gets allllll the credit
yes - they're themed images that give no understanding of the design at all. and this one has a particularly jarring broken perspective where the horizon line is at different levels on the left and right side of the image.
never mind.
unnecessary trapezoid
It's a 235 foot tall mid-rise, on top of (what used to be) a beautiful old Park. Further road revisions will pave even more of the Park. Between 800 to 1,000 trees will have to be removed. I'm not sure what happened to the lakefront protection ordinance, or urban planning. The library was added as a ruse - no study supports it. The design is windowless, looms over the Park. Clad in more grey limestone, It is in conflict with the natural setting. There are vacant lots, across Stony Island and 60th St., that could easily accommodate the OPC. The Park would be their front yard.
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