The Gateway Arch vs. Obama’s Arch
The St. Louis Gateway Arch honors the pioneers and the westward expansion of the United States. It rises 630 ft in the sky. Confident, gleaming, heroic..
And then there's the arch at the Obama Presidential Center.
A crooked, broken deformity that looks like it was built by a crackhead and it stands in front of what resembles a brutalist upside-down trash can.
Cold and depressing — and that's the point.
Great architecture inspires people. It tells them they are part of something glorious.
Brutalism crushes people. It tells them to keep their heads down and submit.
One side wants you to look up at the heavens.
The other wants you to stare at the concrete.
Photos have leaked of Barack Obama's Statue at his Presidential Library, it looks EXACTLY like you'd expect 🤣
He reportedly also requested it be built by a black sculptor — look how that turned out.
The entire Presidential Center has been a DEI nightmare:
-Gave contracts to "diverse suppliers"
-Hired DEI construction workers
-Costs exploded from $350M to $830M
-Fighting a $40M racial discrimination lawsuit — filed by one of his own DEI hires
You really can’t make this stuff up.