Caption by Ashmar Mandou

New renderings of the upcoming Obama Presidential Center were released on Tuesday which included several tweaks to the South Side development. The latest renderings show additional exterior facets, textures, and stacks of windows on the stone-clad building, which the Obama Foundation says was “inspired by the idea of four hands coming together.” A portion of the facade will be screened behind three-dimensional letters lifted from one of President Obama’s speeches. The signature structure is now more detailed and less monolithic than the slab-sided iteration first revealed by New York-based Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects in spring 2017.

Photos Courtesy of The Obama Foundation