George W. Bush Presidential Center Dedicated

On April 25, the George W. Bush Presidential Center on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, was dedicated. It follows the model of presidential libraries built since Herbert Hoover, but goes beyond those by incorporating the Bush Institute, "a place of action, a results-oriented institute that will have an effect on our country and, we think, on the world," according to the 43rd President.

Robert A.M. Stern (dean of the School of Architecture at Yale University, from where Bush graduated) designed the building to fit in with SMU's Georgian red brick campus. Not surprisingly, Stern's design has received a fair share of negative criticism for its uninspiring and unadorned tradtionalism, perhaps a parallel of the man it portrays.