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“Making Heimat. Germany, Arrival Country” is a response to the fact that over a million refugees arrived in Germany during 2015. The expectations for 2016 are similar. The need for housing is urgent, but just as urgent is the need for new ideas and reliable approaches to integration. The exhibition therefore consists of three parts: the first part surveys physical refugee shelters – the actual solutions that have been built to cope with the acute need. The second part seeks to define the conditions that must be present in an Arrival City in order to turn refugees into immigrants. The third part of the exhibition is the spatial design concept of the German Pavilion, which will make a statement about the contemporary political situation. Something Fantastic will plan and stage the architectural presentation and graphic design. 

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An overview of the three sections of Making Heimat:

1. Launched on 10 March 2016, the website makingheimat.de documents some 35 refugee housing projects that have been gathered by DAM through a Call for Projects since October 2015. The spectrum ranges from temporary lightweight structures that house 300 people, whose interiors have been designed by an architect, to low-cost long-term housing projects, not only intended to house refugees. An emphasis has been laid on wooden modular structures. Yet the scope of the database also ranges from projects initiated by citizen groups to the efforts of a private benefactor to create an estate-like complex for artists and refugees. 

The projects on makingheimat.de depict the reality of Germany’s current situation. They are grouped according to size, cost and number of occupants per square metre, material and construction. The database is not a best-of collection nor is it an architecture prize—instead, it’s meant to provoke discussion. It aims to help us compare current solutions and provide a foundation for local and regional policymakers. 

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Eight theses on the Arrival City were developed in close collaboration with Doug Saunders, author of Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World. DAM intends the theses to address the following question: what conditions must be met in Arrival Cities, from an urban planning and architectural perspective, for immigrants to integrate successfully into Germany?

Many of the current refugees and migrants will remain in Germany, as a swift resolution of the war and persecution in their homelands seems unlikely. Together with immigrants who have arrived in Germany by other means, they’re effectively turning Germany into a popular country of immigrants. Yet if we hope to avoid the mistakes of the 1960s and 1970s, it’s essential that these new citizens are not treated as guests, who can be “sent home” at any moment. These immigrants must be given the chance to make Germany into their second home. This is what the title of the exhibition is meant to convey: Making Heimat implies that the stay in Germany will be a permanent one.

Immigrants tend to gravitate towards people in similar situations. This results, unplanned, in the formation of many different Arrival Cities. Doug Saunders defines them in the following terms: “The Arrival City is a City within a City”. Saunders has based his observations about Arrival Cities on his time spent in slums and favelas around the world. Such areas are poor and remain poor, but their turnover rate is high. Many people arrive, but don’t stay permanently. Arrival Cities emerge in urban zones—not through the proportionate distribution of asylum seekers, or under the terms stipulated in a “Residenzpflicht” (residence requirement), a subject currently back under discussion. They offer cheap rent, access to work, and ethnic networks that adopt new arrivals and facilitates their social advancement. In Making Heimat, this model is applied to the situation in Germany. One of the examples that will be investigated is the city centre of Offenbach; another is the Dong Xuan Center in Berlin-Lichtenberg – a Vietnamese supermarket in which everything functions a little differently than what Germans are accustomed to.

The current refugee situation and the demands for an Arrival City converge on an important point: the housing crisis in Germany. We’ve been talking about the issue of low-cost housing for many years; now, it’s time to develop concrete solutions. The situation demands it. We need housing for everyone – and that includes (but isn’t limited to) refugees and migrants. 

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The Berlin-based team Something Fantastic was responsible for the overall presentation in the German Pavilion. Its three partners Elena Schütz, Julian Schubert and Leo Streich are trained architects. They were chosen by DAM because of their intensive engagement with Arrival Cities, both in their teaching capacity at ETH Zürich and in their work around the world. Their extensive architectural studies of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Addis Abeba and Cairo have been published in book form. Something Fantastic work as architects, exhibition designers, researchers, curators and graphic designers. For the German Pavilion, they have created the spatial concept, and will design the exhibition and catalogue. The design refers to the immediacy and pragmatic visual communication in the Arrival City. 

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• Architects: DVVD Engineers Architects Designers
• Location: 12th arrondissement, 75012 Paris, France
• Project Directors: Vincent Dominguez and Daniel Vaniche
• Team: Paula Castro, Céline Cerisier, Vincent Dominguez, Toma Dryjski, Bertrand Potel, Louis Ratajczak, Daniel Vaniche
• Area: 62000.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Courtesy of DVVD Engineers Architects Designers

• Contracting Authority: POPB operating company
• General Contractor: Bouygues Bâtiment Île-de-France

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The challenge posed to the DVVD agency was huge, primarily involving the skilful management, with no overrun, of 17 months of works, divided into two phases. A rst phase of 7 months, for the renovation of the ice rink and the start of works on the main hall, with a 2-month interruption in works for an interim reopening to host the BNP Paribas Masters tennis tournament and some thirty concerts. The second phase of 10 months, to be executed at a brisk pace, was to involve the reconstruction of the concert hall, the ting-out of reception rooms, dressing rooms, public spaces, sports facilities, press rooms and show production facilities, the reworking of technical premises and the acoustic and thermal treatment of the outer shell of the building. All this was to be done without the slightest adjustment to due dates and costs, there being no possibility of an extension to the works budget of 110 million euros, and the Masters tennis tournament being an annual event. A just-in-time schedule, with an extremely precise sequencing of phases, was devised as a result. 

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“The redevelopment scheme was technical, functional and safety- related. What we have attempted to do is to go beyond this scheme by delivering a sensitive architecture which is emblematic of one of the greatest arenas in the world, and even influencing urban development by opening the building out onto the street, providing spaces and walking facilities for local residents.” Daniel Vaniche 

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Works supervisors were to operate zone-by-zone; design analyses were completed to an extreme degree of detail, in order to avoid any change in design in the course of works. At the peak period, nearly 1,200 people were working on-site under extreme demands in order to ensure the on-time o cial delivery of the project on 18th October 2015. The venue has also changed its name: the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy has made way for the AccorHotels Arena, following a naming operation which forms part of the economic model for the nancing of schemes with no public subsidy. In this major achievement, praise is due to the disparity between the economy of resources and the resulting quality of spaces and ambiances, unparalleled in modern arenas. 

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• Architects: Vector Architects
• Location: Beidaihe, Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China
• Principal Architect: Gong Dong
• Design Team: Dongping Sun , Yi Chi Wang, Jiahe ZhangClient
• Client: Beijing Rocfly Investment (Group) CO., LTD
• Area: 270.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: 陈颢 Chen Hao

• Site Architect: Dongping Sun
• Structural & Mep Engineering: Beijing Yanhuang International Architecture & Engineering Co.,Ltd.
• Structural Consultant: Lixin Ji, Zhongyu Liu

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We imagine the Seashore Chapel as an old boat drifting on the ocean long time ago. The ocean receded through time and left an empty structure behind, which is still lying on the beach.

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The space is thus divided vertically. The covered outdoor space naturally becomes a resting place for people on the beach. It is also a space connecting religious space to the mundane life. When the tide rises, this space will be submerged by water. At that moment, the imagery of the drifting boat emerges out of the chapel.

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The atmosphere on upper floor is intensely divine and religious. The spatial experience begins on the 30 meters path leading to the chapel. When people gradually approach, the cue emerges indicating the suspending space on the other side through the 600mm wide gap in the middle of the grand staircases. With a glimpse of ocean in distance, they walk up the stairs, go through the gate, and make a turn around the screen wall into the space with unblocking ocean view. The relationship between space and the ocean is closer due to the elevated position. The view is isolated from the beach and people, leaving the outstretched ocean the only view in sight.

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There are limited openings on the chapel. The only large horizontal ocean-view window is on the east facade. Its 2.7m height helps to avoid the interruption of excessive light to the interior, and also frames the view to the ocean. A few narrow gaps in between the walls also bring in natural lighting. Lighting is carefully controlled with the 10-meter tall interior space misting diffused light. On the east facade, a triangle opening gently illuminates the cross from both bottom and up. There is another light channel on top of the pitched roof allows the natural light streaming into the space which is a 300mm gap between the bended wall on north and the pitched roof. At the noon of spring, summer and fall, when the solar altitude is almost perpendicular, the light projects directly onto the wall on north, generating vivid lighting effect. Although the lights does not stay for long, the texture of the stucco wall is emphasized and celebrated by the light at the moment, and becomes a touchable skin. On the north side, there is a cantilevered space of meditation. The space can merely fit in one person where the walls wrap your body tightly, and one curvy wall extends the sight towards the distant ocean.

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The design of this chapel considers natural ventilation comprehensively. In order to maintain the uniform and continuous exterior appearance, all the windows are hidden in the gaps between the main envelope and several pieces of paralleled sliding-out walls.

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Seashore Chapel serves the resort community on its west side. It is the artificial space that is the closest to the ocean in the community. Apart from religious programs, many public and community events are planned in Seashore Chapel. Together with Seashore Library, they provide spiritual spaces at ocean front, where people can slow down their pace, experience the nature and examine their inner state.

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• Architects: 5pA
• Location: Seoul, South Korea
• Architect In Charge: Seowon Oh
• Design Team: Seokhong Go, Younggu Kang, Jiwon Lee, Uihun Kim, Yeonhong Ju, Geonwoo Koo, Haein Park
• Area: 7130.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Youngchae Park

• Structural Engineering: Yigun+Fostec
• Façade Engineering: KBM
• Mechanical Engineering: HANA Consulting Engineers Co.,Ltd.
• Lighting Design: Mavericks
• Concert Hall Design : Jakky

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Soorim Arts Center is located at Hongneung, Seoul, once the royal grave site of Empress Myeonseong(1851-1895). We renovated the former head office of the Korean Film Council at Hongneung into what is now Soorim Arts Center, complete with a memorial hall, an art gallery, and a concert hall. Much of the former structure was built underground; it did not have enough natural light and air. Our main goal for the renovation was to expose the space to more natural light and air, and to enlarge the main hall. The main entrance hall of the existing structure was 1.2 meter above the street level; one could only access it through a narrow stairway, which in turn was obstructed by another staircase. 

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We thus demolished the extra staircase, adjusted the floor levels, and created a bridge to connect the space to an open area, which we turned into Heesoo Kim Memorial Hall, in honor of the founder of Soorim Arts Center. Formerly, the main floor in the space was a closed area with a lack of ventilation and natural light. In order to make the space more three-dimensional, we opened a section of the floor slab to introduce natural light and fresh air. Also, we installed an additional elevator in the main hall to facilitate access to the rooftop. The spacious film development room with a 5.5 meter-high ceiling was converted into an art gallery. We took advantage of the different floor levels, introduced light by opening up the southern wall with the use of Kalwall and created flexible exhibition walls with the use of two layered moving walls. We increased the parking and art storage area by efficiently reducing the size of the maintenance area. 

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A skylight box was created to introduce light into the garden, and art gallery also functions as a sculptural element in the garden. The office sits on the first floor; the triangular patterned glass and aluminum walls were each designed differently based on their direction and exposure to sun light. The water tank on the rooftop was converted into an observatory and is open to public. 

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• Architects: Parametr Architecture
• Location: Bintaro, Pesanggrahan, South Jakarta City, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia
• Design Principal: Ario Andito, Harun Wisaksono, Joffi Febriando
• Project Architect: Supar
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Lindung Soemahardi

• Interior Designer : Yessi Natalia
• General Contractor: Tripilar Artchipta
• Drafter : Adam Riyandi
• Graphic Illustration : Danang Setawijaya , Yuni Annisa
• Text Article : Kanoasa Akbar , Elisa Kristiani

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From the architect. Every corner in a house owns its respective functions that makes up a braid of atmosphere, Spouse house, presented in a different way.

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Located in a residential area of Bintaro, this house looks different from the other houses in the vicinity that have similar facade. This house was built with an area of 200 square meters, which is interesting in this site is due to have two main streets on the front and back side of the site, it will affect the shape and the program of the function in the home.

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The presence of two entrances on the front and back of the site results in a potential cross circulation problem in the house, for that there should be a ‘breakpoint’, in which an architect uses krowakisme philosophy (krowak = hole); such krowakisme is translated with the presence of inner court, void and bridge on the second floor.

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Inner court is provided to accommodate the living entities such as fresh air, sunlight and wind can freely enter the house; thus, it enhances the quality of life for residents become better and healthier. Meanwhile, a void is to create the atmosphere between space of each floor more ‘fluid’ and the Bridge is to create a sense of space is more enjoyed.

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The house is divided into two floors. Taking the middle-aged owner into consideration, the master bedroom and the common room are situated on the first floor, while in the second floor there are two bedrooms for children and supporting room. Each room is adjoining the void and / or inner court, so every room gets lighting and natural atmosphere.

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The facade of the house is separated into two parts, so that from outside the facade looks like to have two integrating houses. It is also based on the consideration of the facade of the house leading to the west side where being frontally exposed by the sunlight. Therefore, the division of the two masses serves to reduce exposure to direct sunlight on the facade of the house and reduce the impression that the house is too closed. On the left side there is a daughter’s room and on the right side there is a boy’s room. Because they have a couple of kids, a Spouse House name is given that means a couple. Then the pattern of those two facades is made consistent with the character of both. The pattern is made of a three-meter iron plate and in white color to match the surrounding houses. 

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• Architects: People's Architecture
• Location: Dong Shan Ma Lu, Xinghualing Qu, Taiyuan Shi, Shanxi Sheng, China
• Principals: He Zhe, James Shen, Zang Feng
• Project Team: Zhang Minghui, Amy Song, Zhang Zhen
• Area: 307.3 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Courtesy of People’s Architecture Office

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Shipping containers stacked and shifted in plan and layered in elevation maximize rooftop views and shaded public areas on the ground at the Container Stack Pavilion. A 7.5 meter cantilevered box is the point of entrance to the building’s upper level roof, while the pavilion itself seems to extend out toward bordering streets, showcasing its interior activities. The ends of each container are capped with full height windows, allowing sightlines throughout the entire building. Inside, a double height central atrium is carved out where the two levels of shipping containers overlap. The Container Stack Pavilion is a temporary structure that can be disassembled and moved to other locations.

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• Architects: Open Studio Pty Ltd
• Location: Western Port Bay, Victoria, Australia
• Area: 170.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Open Studio Pty Ltd

• Architecture & Interior Design: Open Studio Pty Ltd
• Structural & Civil Engineer: Perrett Simpson Pty Ltd
• Contractor / Builder: MRC Constructions

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The clients’ brief was clear and simple: a semi-permanent residence – something more than a weekender – for a couple, their dog and sporadic visitors. The site, located in Somers and virtually on the beach, offers panoramic views across Western Port Bay. Somers is a small beachside town established in the 1920s, stretching from the Coolart Wetlands to the Cerberus Naval Base on the Mornington Peninsula. Although just one hour’s drive from Melbourne, the area is still a relatively low key holiday place, characterised by elevated modernist fibro houses, unfenced gardens and native bushland vegetation.

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Early concepts exploring the possibility of a single storey building were soon abandoned in favour of an elevated two-storey scheme to achieve a modest footprint and minimise the disruption to vegetation and topography. The majority of the site remains untouched, maintaining a continuous and informal landscape stretching from the street to the creek’s embankment. The entry approach is subtle and indirect. The house is placed on the highest point of the site, making the most of the spectacular outlook.

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The building form is an arrangement of stacked boxes that extend to create protected balconies and decks. Fully glazed ends are oriented towards the ever-changing sea views (to the South) or filtered sun through treetops (to the North). Custom-made windows with substantial hardwood frames are used throughout the house. Their configuration varies according to the room’s function. External materials and colours have been selected both to blend in with the natural vegetation and for pragmatic reasons (low maintenance, sustainability, bush-fire protection…)

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The program has been organised in three zones, a flexible and open living space on the upper floor, the main bedroom and guests’ bedrooms on the lower floor. A central core of circulation and services links yet separates the different zones

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Internally, materials and finishes are kept to a simple two-tone colour scheme. White walls and minimal joinery contrast with dark stained and waxed timber elements (hardwood floor, window frames, fireplace unit…). Frameless pivot doors and flush skirtings are used throughout to heighten the sense of space and openness.

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BIG’s unzipped wall for the 2016 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion has been a critic and fan favorite so far this summer. Its simple parametric design has inspired the array of captivating photos and even a virtual model that allows you to adjust the parameters of the structure in your browser window. Now you can play with its design wherever you go, thanks to a new app by Studioclam.

Studioclam created the iPad app as a way of showing an architectural project through interaction rather than static images. Use your fingers to explore the pavilion’s interlocking geometries, learning how the wall has been pulled open to accommodate for a bench and bar. Zoom in on the boxes’ sliding mechanism, or rotate around to capture the structure’s different appearances from different angles. The app walks you through the design process to show the construction of the idea, how it operates, and its relationship with the environment.

Check out the video for a look at how the app works, or visit Studioclam’s website here.

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• Architects: Núcleo de Arquitetura Experimental
• Location: Guaíba, RS, Brazil
• Architects In Charge: Núcleo de Arquitetura Experimental
• Author: Arq. Alexandre Rögelin Prass
• Area: 74.91 sqm
• Project Year: 2011
• Photographs: Alexandre Prass

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From the architect. In 2010 a young couple with two children dreamed of building their own house, and for that, they enrolled in the Brazilian Programme, Minha Casa Minha Vida, (My house, My life). They wanted   to live near their parents and not far from the city centre.

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Furthermore, they wanted to help actively in the house design process and not only have a common standard ready-made house, as the available houses of the programme are most of the time. The solution was to get financial assistance. However, their income only allowed a maximum of R$ 80.000,00, which should include the  purchase of the land and the construction price. A very challenging task.

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After choosing the site, the big challenge was to overcome the limitations of the Brazilian Programme, Minha Casa Minha Vida, and so, provide the opportunity of living in a house with contemporary architectural  concepts with its functional, technical and aesthetic qualities. The low amount of money available to build the house demanded dexterity to optimise the interior spaces and for choosing building materials and construction techniques.

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Functionally, the house is developed   along a generous concrete gutter, raised 2.10m above the floor and located in the central axis of the house. It connects all the rooms of the house. This strategy is intended to:

• Simplify the construction by structuring all the different roofs with a view to collecting the rain water.
• Eliminate the necessity of interior beams above the doors, because all of them are located under the gutter.
• Facilitate the future enlargement process of the house as all future rooms can be easily built along the concrete gutter.

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The fact that the clients would prefer  an inward facing  house with no openings to the street demanded the design process to develop itself around the gardens, which not only are part of all the activities that might happen in the house, but also give the house the sense of amplified spaces, even being small ones. The rooms, as large and well integrated as possible, change the perception of isolated functions, transforming them into a set of great living spaces.

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The use of low cost and easily available materials, combined with local labour and creative ways of arrangements and finishing, made it possible to achieve some sofisticated design results. The extensive work involved with the detailing of the project made it possible to eliminate some unnecessary costs and to achieve satisfying results through custom solutions executed at the site.

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In the pictures we can observe the house already in occupation by the residents, with their furniture and the stamp of their personality. At the back of the house, some provisory and necessary   contributions to their daily life have already appeared.  Using the reserved space, the residents added a roof to the laundry as well a wood made shelter for the car.

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The  Brazilian Programme, Minha Casa Minha Vida, which offers private financial initiative to buy the land and build the house, ends up limiting the possibilities of invention during the design process because of the conditioning and legal demands. We, therefore, consider that this low cost urban house is distinguished by   the quality of its created spaces. Examples such as this one can disseminate a range of possibilities to create   low cost architecture without being obliged to have recourse to standard solutions.

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The Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. Image © Tom Rossiter

The Obama Foundation has selected Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (TWBTA) with partner Interactive Design Architects (IDEA) to lead the design of the Obama Presidential Center for Chicago‘s South Side. Chosen from a shortlist including Diller Scofidio + Renfro, John Ronan Architects, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, SHoP Architects, Snøhetta and Adjaye Associates, TWBTA stood out for their “commitment to explore the best ways of creating an innovative center for action that inspires communities and individuals to take on our biggest challenges.”

“We are deeply moved by the mission of the Obama Foundation and the role the Center can play in empowering that mission. It is a joy, an honor, and a responsibility to create a place that reflects the optimism and integrity of the President and the First Lady. This has been a transformative presidency and we will work to make a Center that embodies and expands the Obamas’ vision. We look forward to collaborating with our partners, Interactive Design Architects, and to working with the South Side community,” said TWBTA in a statement.

The Obama Foundation anticipates the the building could potentially be finished by 2020.   

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