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Comment | The Obama Presidential Center aims high, like a Gothic cathedral
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The Chicago architecture critic Anjuli Rao wrote that it looked like a monolith from the television show Ancient Aliens.
Marie Watt and Nick Cave, This Land, Shared Sky, at the Obama Presidential Center Courtesy The Obama FoundationAll three of these works span multiple floors, which has a powerful effect.
Visitors are encouraged by signage and docents to start their journey at the bottom of the museum building and work their way up.
Several visitors have likened this work to a cascading waterfall, where only the closest drops are legible as words.
Former president Barack Obama explores the Obama Presidential Center's Sky Room Courtesy The Obama FoundationExcerpts from the same “You are America” speech (such as “the single most important word in our democracy is ‘we’”) also appear in Pentagram’s large-scale typographic intervention, which wraps around one corner of the building façade.