{"id":274332,"date":"2026-06-22T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/274332\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:30:10","slug":"brooklyn-firms-contributed-to-design-of-obama-presidential-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/274332\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn firms contributed to design of Obama Presidential Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOROUGHWIDE \u2014 THE OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL CENTER that was dedicated last Thursday in Chicago incorporates designs by two Brooklyn firms and one from a Manhattan company.<\/p>\n

The center on Chicago\u2019s South Side, which was opened the day before Juneteenth, celebrates America\u2019s first Black president, complete with high-tech and interactive exhibits. It is part of a 20-acre campus that incorporates a museum with life-sized recreation of the Oval Office and a garden designed by Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n

StudioEIS<\/a> of Industry City designed the sculpture of the Obamas that greets visitors. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc<\/a>. was the landscape architect, creating a space to blend in with the building that Manhattan-based Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects<\/a> designed. The landscape design features a series of planted gathering spaces that rise from the ground to the higher levels, and smaller gardens that reach rooftops.<\/p>\n

According to Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the center\u2019s campus offers programming for children and adults, and it incorporates a community vegetable garden and a renovation of the Historic Women\u2019s Garden, among other features.<\/p>\n

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