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Obama Center's Earthbound Tower Redefines Chicago Architecture

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Obama Center's Earthbound Tower Redefines Chicago Architecture
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Barack Obama steered the Obama Presidential Center’s design toward a solid, earthbound concrete tower clad in locally quarried stone, with two circulation cores, sunken courtyards, a library branch, and a Sky Room. The campus also features a forum and public plaza redesigned by landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, emphasizing daylight, public space and monumentality over conventional glass towers and creating a distinctive, textured architectural presence in Chicago's Jackson Park.

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  1. Edward Keegan: Barack Obama was the shadow architect of a Chicago-style treasure box museum  Chicago Tribune
  2. Museum of Science and Industry to close on opening day of Obama Presidential Center  NBC 5 Chicago
  3. A first look inside the $850 million Obama Presidential Center  CNN
  4. Obama Center’s Two Sides: A Lovely Park and a Forbidding Tower  The New York Times
  5. Black-owned construction firms bring Chicago's Obama Presidential Center to life  ABC7 Chicago

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