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Zach Mortice

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Chicago design critic and journalist.

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Oddly primal and cave-like! Uptown Theater, Rapp & Rapp, 1925 by @zachmortice

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11 hours ago

No data center is ever gonna look this good in decay. @steelstacks_pa @wrtdesign by @zachmortice

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13 days ago

Rust and nostalgia, bb! @steelstacks_pa @wrtdesign by @zachmortice

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13 days ago

Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church is a very thorough and beautiful essay on the history of North Lawndale. Joseph W. Cohen & Co., 1926. taken in The Historic Stone Temple Church by @zachmortice

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20 days ago

Landscape by @mvva.inc @sitedesigngroup @livinghabitats is the best thing going at the Obama Presidential Center by @zachmortice

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a month ago

First in, last out. I’ve been writing about the @obamafoundation’s Obama Presidential Center for almost a decade, and my review in @thearchitecturalreview is the last to join the critical pile-on taking aim at a building that perfectly represents the ego and cynicism of the 44th president. by @zachmortice

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‘The campus is a reflection of Obama’s presidency: possessed by the urge to retreat into aphorisms of hope and change,’ writes @zachmortice on the recently inaugurated Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, Illinois, United States designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects.

The Obama Presidential Center covers a campus of over 19 acre, on land that was formerly part of the publicly owned Jackson Park, features a 70m-tall granite museum tower, public plaza, library branch and basketball court. Designed to last 500 years, the project cost $850 million, funded entirely by billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Marc Benioff – with no public money. The museum's exhibition floors cost $30 to visit, making it the most expensive presidential library.

‘The OPC is a mirror to Obama's victory lap and the ensuing demobilisation of his own activist base,’ writes Mortice. The campus’ opening has accelerated gentrification. Median home prices in the area have multiplied 4.6 times since 2016, and South Shore has become the city’s most evicted neighbourhood. ‘There's no universe where people can benefit from the centre if they can't afford to live next to it,’ says community organiser Dixon Romeo.

Read the full building study, featuring exclusive images for the AR, at the link in our bio.

📸 @angiemcmonigal for The Architectural Review by @zachmortice

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a month ago

Obviously we are pro-Brutalist college basketball arenas. State Farm Center @illinois1867, Harrison and Abramovitz, 1963 by @zachmortice

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2 months ago

@lmnarchitects and @boothhansen getting brutalism to chill out a bit @thisisuic Computer Design, Research and Learning Center. by @zachmortice

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6 months ago

Quite the month for archives in all their structural expressionism. Timber beams at @michaelgravesarchitecture’s @denverlibrary reading room. by @zachmortice

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7 months ago

A perfect in-between at @vamuseum by @zachmortice

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7 months ago

FLW-designed Office for Edgar Kaufmann, storied client for Fallingwater at @vam_east by @zachmortice

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7 months ago