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| Title | Crown Fountain, installation of pedestals and granite tiles, March 11, 2004 |
| Description | A worker begins to build the surface of the reflecting pool. The surface is made of tiles of black, African granite that are 3 feet square and weigh around 250 pounds each. They sit almost 2 feet above the floor of the reservoir, but just below the surface of the water. They are held up by screw-jack pedestals and as you can see from the levels being used in the photograph, each tile had to be absolutely level. More than that, each tile had to be perfectly aligned with its neighbors on each side to achieve the glass-like reflection Jaume Plensa designed. |
| Neighborhood | Loop (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Subject.TGM | Pedestals
Tiles
Pipes (Conduits)
Construction workers
Pails
Chisels & mallets
Skyscrapers
Concrete
Trees
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| Subject.LCSH | Crown Fountain (Chicago, Ill.) -- Design and construction
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| Subject.AAT | LEDs
chain link fences
boards (flat objects)
cinder block
polypropylene
levels (tools)
carpenters' squares
granite (rock)
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| Photographer | Unknown
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| Artists | Plensa, Jaume, 1955-
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| Contributors | Courtesy of U.S. Equities Realty and the men and women who built Millennium Park
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| Date Of Download | 3/11/2004 |
| Time Period | 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004; 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008; 2009 |
| Repository Number | SPE-MP USER Crown 2004.3.11.9 |
| Repository Name | Chicago Public Library Special Collections and Preservation Division
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| Collection | Millennium Park, U.S. Equities Realty Collection
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| Rights | http://www.chipublib.org/aboutcpl/cplpolicies/policies/photo_reproduct.php |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Image
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| Original Format | jpeg
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| Genre | Portrait photographs
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| Original Size | 781 KB |
| Original Resolution (dpi) | 72 |
| Original Dimension (Pixels) | 2048x1360 |
| Camera Specifications | Sony CD MAVICA
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| Book | Crown Fountain
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| Chapter | Chapter 8: Excavation and construction of reservoir and reflecting pool
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| Highlight | highlight
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