Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Friday, July 1, 2016. Have a wonderful Fourth of July weekend!
The Obama Presidential Library now has two architecture firms working on its design
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, a small New York-based architectural firm, and Interactive Design Architects, a Chicago-based studio, have been chosen to design the Obama Presidential Library. They will be working together on the reportedly $500 million project. Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, which designed the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago, is known for “big, airy, modernist structures with expansive courtyards,” according to Wired, while IDA collaborated with another firm on the Art Institute’s Modern Wing. It has not yet been revealed whether the library will be located in Washington Park or Jackson Park, but it will be one of the two. [Crain’s Chicago Business] [Wired]
