Chicago lands the Obama center
Michael Strautmanis, vice president of civic engagement for the Obama Foundation, stands at their new headquarters on the South Side in Chicago on March 18, 2016.
In selecting the renowned, husband-wife team of Williams and Tsien, the Obamas cast a vote in favor of architecture that values craft. “We’re not interested in making a building that is an object,” Tsien once told an interviewer.
