Posted in CITIES, GREEN ROOFS, HISTORIC LANDSCAPES, ONLINE ONLY, PARKS, PRESERVATION, SHORELINE, STREETS, UNIVERSITY, VIEWS, WATER, tagged Calvert Vaux, Chicago, Chicago El, Ernie Wong, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jackson Park, Lake Michigan, landscape architect, Landscape Architecture, landscape design, library, Living Habitats, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Museum, Obama Foundation, Obama Presidential Center, Public Access, Site Design Group, Southside, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, topography, University of Chicago, Washington Park on May 22, 2017| 2 Comments »
The most important question related to the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side doesn’t have that much to do with its architecture.
It is instead: What kind of landscape stewardship can a presidential museum and library offer? To be located in Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted’s Jackson Park, the project already has a heap of canonical landscape history to contend with. So can the Obama library make a great park greater?
The answer is… (more…)
