The Obama Foundation has released updated renderings of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s Jackson Park, but the project continues to draw sharp criticism from residents, architecture observers, and commentators. The latest complaints center on a large inscription wrapping around the museum tower, taken from President Barack Obama’s 2015 Selma speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the civil rights marches.
“I’m outside the Obama Center museum tower right now. The new letters — an excerpt from Obama’s Selma speech — are tough to read to me, giving off the lorem ipsum vibes,” Chicago Sun-Times architecture critic Lee Bey wrote on LinkedIn. He noted that the lettering appears poorly executed, with letters blending together and words becoming difficult to decipher.
