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1. Millennium Monument at Wrigley Square, column, ca. March 14, 2002 Millennium Monument at Wrigley Square, column, ca. March 14, 2002 Columns; Scaffolding; Close-up of a column and scaffolding at the Millennium Monument at Wrigley Square. Each column is made up of five 2200 pound segments carved from 300 million year old limestone from the quarries of northwest...
2. Cloud Gate, photograph of a computer rendering by Performance Structures, Inc. (PSI), December 16, 2002 Cloud Gate, photograph of a computer rendering by Performance Structures, Inc. (PSI), December 16, 2002 Computer graphics; Public sculpture; A photograph of a computer rendering by PSI showing the internal structure of the sculpture. Ethan Silva of PSI created the digitized computer model of the sculpture, and divided the shape into 168 plates....
3. Cloud Gate, fabrication, December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, December 17, 2002 Industrial facilities; Machinery; Machine shops Interior view of the fabrication shop at Performance Structures Inc. (PSI) facility in Oakland, California. Some of the steel plates for the sculpture are visible in the background.
4. Cloud Gate, fabrication, December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, December 17, 2002 Industrial facilities; Machinery; Machine shops Interior view of the fabrication shop at Performance Structures Inc. (PSI) facility in Oakland, California. Some of the steel plates for the sculpture are visible in the background.
5. Cloud Gate, fabrication, December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, December 17, 2002 Structural frames; Metalworking; Close-up of a section of the sub-frame structure during fabrication. The sub-frame sections were attached directly to the back of each of the curved plates that later would form the mirror-like "skin"...
6. Cloud Gate, fabrication, ca. December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, ca. December 17, 2002 Industrial facilities; Machinery; Steel; Machine shops View from above of workers shaping a curved steel plate in the fabrication shop at Performance Structures Inc. (PSI). After plasma cutting the steel plates, a custom made roller, similar to an English...
7. Cloud Gate, fabrication, December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, December 17, 2002 Machinery; Industrial facilities; Machine shops; Steel Close up of a steel plate beneath a precision measuring device called a Faro arm. In order for the plates to fit together, the dimensions and curvature of each plate had to be accurate to within one-thousandth...
8. Cloud Gate, fabrication, December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, December 17, 2002 Machinery; Steel; Industrial facilities; Machine shops A steel plate beneath a precision measuring device called a Faro arm. A Faro arm is an automated scanning device that checks measurements against computer models and calculates whether they are within...
9. Cloud Gate, fabrication, heating equipment, December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, heating equipment, December 17, 2002 Machinery; Close-up view of heating equipment at the Oakland, California offices of Performance Structures Inc. (PSI), where the steel plates for the sculpture were fabricated.
10. Cloud Gate, fabrication, heating equipment, December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, heating equipment, December 17, 2002 Machinery; Industrial facilities; Heating equipment at the Oakland, California offices of Performance Structures Inc. (PSI), where the steel plates for the sculpture were fabricated.
11. Cloud Gate, fabrication, view of outdoor lot, December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, view of outdoor lot, December 17, 2002 Industrial facilities; Hoisting machinery; Looking through a window at an outdoor lot where the curved steel plates of the sculpture are stored under tarps.
12. Cloud Gate, fabrication, view of outdoor lot, December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, view of outdoor lot, December 17, 2002 Industrial facilities; Hoisting machinery; Windows; Looking through a window at an outdoor lot where the curved steel plates of the sculpture are stored under tarps.
13. Cloud Gate, fabrication, view of outdoor lot, December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, view of outdoor lot, December 17, 2002 Industrial facilities; Hoisting machinery; Windows; Looking through a window at an outdoor lot where the curved steel plates of the sculpture are stored under tarps.
14. Cloud Gate, fabrication, exterior view of Performance Structures Inc. (PSI), December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, exterior view of Performance Structures Inc. (PSI), December 17, 2002 Industrial facilities; Dollies (Moving equipment); Steel; Exterior of Performance Structures Inc. (PSI) in Oakland, California. Visible on the left are some of the curved steel plates that would later form part of the mirrorlike "skin" of Anish Kapoor's sculpture...
15. Cloud Gate, fabrication, steel plates, December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, steel plates, December 17, 2002 Steel; Dollies (Moving equipment); An outdoor lot where the curved steel plates of the sculpture are stored under tarps.
16. Cloud Gate, fabrication, steel plates, December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, steel plates, December 17, 2002 Steel; Dollies (Moving equipment); An outdoor lot where the curved steel plates of the sculpture are stored under tarps.
17. Cloud Gate, fabrication, milling, April 21, 2003 Cloud Gate, fabrication, milling, April 21, 2003 Steel; Milling machines; Machine shops; Structural frames; Industrial facilities; A milling machine is used to remove excess material from a steel plate. In order for the steel plates forming the sculpture to fit together, the dimensions and curvature of each plate had to be exact to...
18. Cloud Gate, fabrication, sub-frame grid, April 22, 2003 Cloud Gate, fabrication, sub-frame grid, April 22, 2003 Structural frames; Dollies (Moving equipment); Industrial facilities; A section of the steel sub-frame during fabrication. The sections of the sub-frame were attached directly to the back of each of the curved plates that would form the mirror-like "skin" of the sculpture....
19. Cloud Gate, fabrication, close-up of sub-frame grid, April 22, 2003 Cloud Gate, fabrication, close-up of sub-frame grid, April 22, 2003 Structural frames; Close up of the sub-frame grid for one of the 168 plates that make up the mirror-like "skin" of the sculpture.
20. Cloud Gate, fabrication, rolling, April 22, 2003 Cloud Gate, fabrication, rolling, April 22, 2003 Steel; Machinery; Machine shops; Industrial facilities; A worker positioning a flat steel plate into a roller. A custom made roller, similar to an English roller, was built by PSI to roll the steel plates into their curved shapes. The plates are shaped by moving...
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