Obamas unveil design of presidential center in Chicago
Source: Chicago Tribune
Former first couple Barack and Michelle Obama on Wednesday offered the first look at the design of the planned Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park — a campus of three buildings highlighted by an eye-catching museum, whose height and splaying walls would make a bold architectural statement.
The design appears to call for closing Cornell Drive, a major thoroughfare that runs through Jackson Park, to create a campus-like setting for the presidential center. That is likely to draw fire from thousands of drivers who each day use Cornell, which links South Lake Shore Drive, Stony Island Boulevard and the Chicago Skyway.
The museum, which will house exhibition space as well as education and meeting rooms, will be the tallest of the three structures. It will be clad in a light-colored stone and will serve as a "lantern" for the complex, though a news release did not specify its height.
To its south would be the forum, which will house an auditorium, restaurant and public garden, and the library, which will contain a trove of documents, emails, photos and artifacts from Obama's eight years in office.
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Something new to visit in the city. A Presidential Library in my own backyard!
