"The center will include three buildings in geometric shapes made of slate-colored stone. The museum is the dominant building. It stands at 180-feet tall and is in a neo-Brutalist architectural style. The center of it is wider than the top and bottom. It perhaps resembles the alien spacecraft from the 2016 film Arrival. Large parts of it are devoid of windows, but there are cutaway holes as well as integrated text from a speech Obama delivered on the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches.
"The two other buildings, the library and the forum building, are flat, rectangular buildings in a barebones modern style.
"Obama has grandiose ambitions that the center will be a monument with imbibed meaning.
"He said of the center, “We want them to go through the exhibits, the stories of my presidency, and say, ‘Oh, this is a part of me. This belongs to me.’”. . .
If there were to be another government shutdown, would a Democrat President block access to this place in hopes of "making it hurt"? That was an Obama order at the last shutdown, you know?
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