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Construction Photos of Obama's 'Mosque' Receive Harsh Reviews: ‘Looks Like a Prison'
2025-04-22

[GatewayPundit] The shrine to Barack Obama
If you like your coverage you can keep it...
, aka the Obama library at the Obama Presidential Center (OPC), is still under construction in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
Photos of the building made the rounds on social media recently, and the building is receiving harsh criticism, with some suggesting the barren, characterless building looks more like a prison than a library.
Built with DEI concrete. Good luck.
Biz Pac Review notes that the building, designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, features an exterior wrapped in granite panels and is one of "numerous buildings on the massive 19-acre Obama Presidential Center campus, which has been priced at about $830 million by the News Agency that Dare Not be Named."
Related:
Obama Presidential Center 02/12/2025 The truth of Barack Obama's hopelessly-delayed $830 million DEI nightmare of a presidential library that may never be built
Obama Presidential Center 11/23/2021 Jeff Bezos donates $100MILLION to the Obama foundation and asks him to rename the plaza at his Chicago presidential center after late Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis
Obama Presidential Center 08/21/2021 Supreme Court refuses to block construction of the Obama Presidential Center


Posted by:Woodrow

#5  still a year or so before opening

first month or two they will probably get a lot of visitors, after that it will be mostly a ghost town
Posted by: lord garth   2025-04-22 19:47  

#4  Flack tower?

Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452   2025-04-22 17:30  

#3  Say what you will about Stalinist Architecture, it at least pretended to have design elements.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2025-04-22 12:49  

#2  I'm reminded of a black hole detector.
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-04-22 12:07  

#1  
Posted by: Besoeker   2025-04-22 06:39  

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