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Crown Fountain, Millennium Park, Chicago

mgerwing — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:38:44 +0000

Millennium Park in Chicago has become a very interesting foil to the Art Institute. The band shell/amphitheater by Frank Gehry is a bit disappointing (too 2-dimensional), but the Crown Fountain is one of the best pieces of public art in the city. Designed by Jaume Plensa, the fountain is two 50 foot high glass block towers with video projections on their facing sides. The projections are faces of people from the wide spectrum of citizens of Chicago.

In warm weather the fountains ’spit’ a stream onto a slate plaza, usually filled with kids playing in the stream.

On a recent trip to Chicago, the Midwestern rain had the fountains turned off, but the reflection in the plaza doubled each image, making a kind of visual skyscraper to join the others in the city.

north tower

south tower

photos by Mark Gerwing

A Big Brother From Another Planet Odyssey

Rick — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:43:27 +0000

Early morning at the Crown Fountain in Millennium Park, Chicago, IL, USA.

Cool Fountains

dailyintake — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:33:43 +0000

Crown Fountain Interactive work of public art featured in Millennium Park, which is in the Loop comm

Chicago - Crown Fountain

Heather Poole — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:53:26 +0000

Explore Chicago – Millennium Park

Theater Blog — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:32:14 +0000

Besides our great theatre, there’s so much more to do in the great world-class city of Chicago. One of my favorite places in the city is Millennium Park. Check it out:

Millennium Park is an award-winning center for art, music, architecture and landscape design. From free concerts in the Frank Gehry-designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion, to Jaume Plensa’s interactive Crown Fountain, Millennium Park has something for everyone. Tour the Lurie Garden; or have your photo taken by Anish Kapoor’s hugely popular Cloud Gate sculpture. Admission is FREE. For more information, visit http://www.millenniumpark.org.

Dancing on Glassy Water

Evan — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:14:53 +0000

Kathleen Rae Thielhelm of the Joffrey Ballet is featured in the latest video from 30 Seconds of Dance. Filmed in Chicago’s Crown Fountain at Millennium Park and set to the heavenly opening from Philip Glass’s “In the Upper Room”, the beauty of this film speaks for itself.

Phun Phridays: Chicago

Adrian Salgado — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:50:56 +0000

Water Tower Place & John Hancock Center

Northwestern University School of Law

The Modern Wing (Art Institute of Chicago)

Chicago River

Crown Fountain (Millennium Park)

Cloud Gate (Millennium Park)

Wrigley Building

Trump International Hotel & Tower

Wicker Park

American Gothic (Art Institute of Chicago)

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What I Do When I Have an Empty Apartment

Amy — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:46:41 +0000

It was another non-busy weekend. Which I’m finally starting to get used to. Being as how March

block head

thereseflanagan — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:34:40 +0000

block head, originally uploaded by therese flanagan.

Chicago . Millenium Park .

C.J. Scott — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:36:09 +0000

Millenium Park (four years behind schedule finally opening in 2004…lol) is really amazing. There never seems to be a lack of things to see and do there and we were fortunate enough to visit it quite a few times.

The-really-cool-thing-that-every-person-with-a-camera-flocked-to…Cloud Gate aka The Bean

A trippy photo from directly underneath The Bean…

Interactive public art…

My most favourite thing that we saw on our trip to Chicago…the totally awesome Crown Fountain!!

okay so i FINALLY put up a new videoblog

mcdayjob — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:38:09 +0000

and you can watch it HERE or THERE. im sure you will enjoy it regardless to where you chose to watch it at. now that im done nursing this hangover imma walk my netflix to the mailbox and see about getting a new innertube to fix this flat tire on my bike….

Random Shots: Staying cool in Chi-Town

Andre — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:51:27 +0000

So Bets and I are currently in the Second City, Chicago, IL. We’re up here visiting with friends we haven’t had a chance to see since we’ve moved to Birmingham. We’ve scattered throughout the Southeast now and have come together for a wedding reception for two of them. We’ve also been wandering throughout the city. There are many that claim that while Pittsburgh is our sister U.S. city, that the Magic City can also be compared to Chicago. After looking around yesterday (and plans to do so today), I don’t see why that can’t be true.

Of course, we also chose one of the hottest times of the year to visit… in the midst of some of the hottest weather this part of the country has seen in decades. I plan to post an entry talking about the similarities (both in the present environment and future potential) early this week. Right now I leave you with these great images of the Crown Fountain in Millennium Park in downtown Chicago, one of the ways that the cities may be quite similar very soon. Enjoy the day.

BTW: Check out Charles’ most recent post. It would be a great addition to the Neon series if it’s true!

Cheers.