the fact they built it in a low income neighborhood and spent 850m on it is just so fucking American.
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Don't ask, but it won't be a low income neighborhood for long. 
They stole their public park to build it too. It's so fucked.
University of Chicago was the birthplace of neo liberalism, the Obamalisk is it's tombstone.
Tagline please
Fuck it, let's go see the Obamalisk
Kid you not, you can park in the Nancy Pelosi Parking Lot.
It's actually called the Barack Obama Presidential Center because his Presidential Library is digital. (The physical copies of his documents will be preserved in a National Archives and Records Administration facility elsewhere.)
So it has no use at all, just a monument to his ego?
Just like his presidency so it's at least fitting.
Obama.org says it is a place "where people from around the world come to get inspired and bring change home"
You can read more about it here: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/02/klingon-prison-barack-obamas-presidential-library-chicago
oh thanks, i skimmed a bit of that article and now i'm in terrible pain.
If there ever was a testiment to 
presidency, i suppose a massive wasteful brutalist building would be fitting.
The hubris needed to have a .org website of your last name.
Edit: bush.org is available. Somebody get it so we can have it redirect to here or make a forum dedicated to different trim styles for your pubes
I get that its supposed to be quoting something, but that building is hard to read. It looks like a word scramble
The obamalisk contains a library full of all of the books Barack and Michelle have had written for them, as well as a few of those of their advisors. You cannot check out the books though, only read them in the "library".
That part in itself is such a massive insight into Obama and a wonderful microcosm of the world he sought to create.
It's "look on my works* ye Mighty, and despair" not "check out my works and take them home"
*The gentrification is part of the works
The obamalisk contains a library full of all of the books Barack and Michelle have had written for them, as well as a few of those of their advisors. You cannot check out the books though, only read them in the "library".
It doesnt. Those are in the separate nearby public library.
Uh let me read here
The obungleisk
Listening to the Chapo pod about this. They got a great guest speaker.
kate wagner is great in it and in general
They privatized a public park for this.
Most progressive president of the 21st century!
They wanted it to look like a drone factory and command center to secure his true legacy.
Also gives Dark Tower vibes
I just finished that series
Oh nice! It's one of my all time favorites. Still hoping it someday gets a proper adaptation. I think an animated series would be the best way to go given it's packed full of so much wild high strangeness and shit that would be incredibly difficult to film.
the lava is an inspired choice, very nice
The actual building manages to look even more sinister. What the fuck was he thinking?
If the risks of lava could be mitigated would an active volcano be a decent olace to store books? Low humidity, no insects, etc...
Loads of particulates in the air though. And sulfur is used in the production of paper but I dont know if that means its good for books. (Sulfuric acid is definitely bad for books though)
Should have just gone with the family guy gag design
and of course presidential libraries entire existence is owed to the forever-tax-breaks they get to do as a shady tax haven for "philanthropic donations"
It looks like a giant Cybertruck pointed skyward when seen from the correct angle.
Eye of sauron but woke