Hear From the Architects Behind the Obama Presidential Center
Geoffrey Baer
Thu, 06/18/2026 - 18:39
Laura Chavez
At the end of the Obama presidency a question was posed to architects around the world: Who wants to design the Obama Presidential Center on the South Side of Chicago?
More than 140 architecture firms applied, but only one got the proverbial golden ticket.
WTTW News sat down with the principal architects of TWBTA to discuss the creati…