If you've ever been to Chicago, I hope you were able to visit Millenium Park. It is an amazing accomplishment of vision and labor. Its one of the many things that makes me proud to call Chicago home.
the starting point from the 1970's
ground breaking and paving the way
construction start-up for Pritzker Pavilion
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
designed by Frank Gehry
construction on BP Bridge
BP Bridge
If you want to build yourself a giant metal bean, then you gotta start with something like this.
and keep adding on to it like this.
Cloud Gate AKA The Bean
by Anish Kapoor
but I heard he doesn't like for it to be called the Bean, but in the true Modernist convention of the viewers' relationship with the object, I don't think it should matter what he likes anymore... so the Bean it is!
construction of Crown Fountain
Two images of Crown Fountain
Millenium Park. A triumph in urban planning and one of the greatest urban parks in the world!
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