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1. 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.
2. Cloud Gate, trial assembly in Oakland, California, September 18, 2003 Cloud Gate, trial assembly in Oakland, California, September 18, 2003 Steel; Reflections; Trusses; Industrial facilities; View from below of the partially assembled sculpture, during the trial fit-up in Oakland, California.
3. Cloud Gate, SBC Plaza, March 10, 2004 Cloud Gate, SBC Plaza, March 10, 2004 Construction equipment; Construction workers; Hoisting machinery; Poly-foam blocks in the northeast corner of SBC Plaza. Pritzker Pavilion is under construction in the background.
4. Cloud Gate, SBC Plaza, March 16, 2004 Cloud Gate, SBC Plaza, March 16, 2004 Construction workers; Trees; Lampposts; Construction equipment; Snow; Workers prepare for concrete to be pumped into SBC Plaza. The Chicago Cultural Center, formerly the Chicago Public Library, is visible in the background.
5. Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, April 23, 2004 Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, April 23, 2004 Steel; Structural systems; Trusses; Dollies (Moving equipment); Tents; Scaffolding; Plywood Looking northwest toward the partially assembled sculpture.
6. Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, April 29, 2004 Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, April 29, 2004 Steel; Construction workers; Structural systems; Trusses; Hoisting machinery; Plywood; Scaffolding; Tents; Pails; Workers guide a steel plate into position on the partially assembled sculpture.
7. Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, May 3, 2004 Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, May 3, 2004 Steel; Structural systems; Trusses; Plywood; Tents; Construction workers; Hoisting machinery; Ladders; Pails; Wood blocks; Workers guide a steel plate into place on the sculpture as it is hoisted from above by a crane.
8. Cloud Gate, attaching the final plate, June 28, 2004 Cloud Gate, attaching the final plate, June 28, 2004 Steel; Hoisting machinery; Construction workers; Tents; I-beams; Flags; Reflections Artist Anish Kapoor (right) and others look on as workers fit the final steel plate into place on the sculpture.
9. Cloud Gate, assembly complete, July 12, 2004 Cloud Gate, assembly complete, July 12, 2004 Public sculpture; Reflections; Skyscrapers; Plazas; Looking west toward Cloud Gate. This photograph was taken less than a week before Millennium Park opened. The ongoing construction of SBC Plaza is visible in the sculpture's reflection. The sculpture was...
10. Crown Fountain, meeting in Chicago, May 13, 2002 Crown Fountain, meeting in Chicago, May 13, 2002 Glass blocks; Lighting; Close-up view of an LED test panel during a meeting in Chicago at the offices of Krueck + Sexton Architects.
11. Crown Fountain, fabricating the glass bricks, May 21, 2003 Crown Fountain, fabricating the glass bricks, May 21, 2003 Glass industry; Shelving; Molds (Shaping tools); Ladders; Shelves of molds at L.E. Smith Glass Company in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. L.E. Smith Glass Company, a pressed-glass fabricating company that specializes in decorative objects, fabricated 22,000 five-...
12. Crown Fountain, testing in Melbourne, Florida, January 17, 2003 Crown Fountain, testing in Melbourne, Florida, January 17, 2003 Industrial facilities; Glass blocks; Structural frames; Mock-ups; Lighting; Cameras; A glass brick panel mock-up in front of an LED screen at the headquarters of Circle Redmont Inc. in Melbourne, Florida. The mock-up was created to test a possible steel support structure for the tower...
13. Crown Fountain, testing in Melbourne, Florida, January 17, 2003 Crown Fountain, testing in Melbourne, Florida, January 17, 2003 Industrial facilities; Glass blocks; Structural frames; Mock-ups; Interior view of a glass brick panel mock-up at the headquarters of Circle Redmont Inc. in Melbourne, Florida, created to test a possible steel support structure for the tower walls of Crown Fountain.
14. Crown Fountain, testing in Melbourne, Florida, May 20, 2003 Crown Fountain, testing in Melbourne, Florida, May 20, 2003 Industrial facilities; Automobiles; A forklift is used to move an LED screen outside the headquarters of Circle Redmont Inc. in Melbourne, Florida.
15. Crown Fountain, assembly in Melbourne, Florida, ca. March 24, 2004 Crown Fountain, assembly in Melbourne, Florida, ca. March 24, 2004 Industrial facilities; Structural frames; Glass blocks; Fans (Machinery); Pails; Shelving; Once the glass bricks were made by L.E. Smith in Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, they were sent to the offices of Circle Redmont, Inc., to be assembled into steel grids, shown here.

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16. Crown Fountain, full scale LED mock-up in Logan, Utah, November 16, 2003 Crown Fountain, full scale LED mock-up in Logan, Utah, November 16, 2003 Office buildings; Parking lots; Mountains; Cameras; Lampposts; Roark Frankel of U.S. Equities Realty (left) and artist Jaume Plensa during a viewing of a full scale mock-up of the LED component of Crown Fountain at Barco's Logan, Utah offices. U.S. Equities Realty...
17. Crown Fountain, full scale LED mock-up in Logan, Utah, December 17, 2003 Crown Fountain, full scale LED mock-up in Logan, Utah, December 17, 2003 Mock-ups; Structural systems; Office buildings; Lighting; Mountains; Concrete; Lampposts; Fences; A full scale mock-up of the LED component of Crown Fountain at Barco's Logan, Utah offices. Barco manufactured the LED screens for Crown Fountain and supplied the software to operate the system.
18. Crown Fountain, tower interior, May 27, 2004 Crown Fountain, tower interior, May 27, 2004 Structural systems; Glass blocks; Structural frames; Interior view of one of Crown Fountain's towers.
19. Crown Fountain, LED screen test in blue, south tower, April 1, 2004 Crown Fountain, LED screen test in blue, south tower, April 1, 2004 Lighting; Construction workers; Testing; Automobiles; Construction equipment; Skyscrapers; Looking south toward the south tower as its newly installed LED screen is lit up in blue. The last LED tile, behind the "gargoyle" nozzle, has yet to be installed.
20. Crown Fountain, video test run, north tower, May 19, 2004 Crown Fountain, video test run, north tower, May 19, 2004 Lighting; Testing; Faces; Trees; Skyscrapers; Looking northwest toward the north tower of Crown Fountain during a video test run. An image of a face is visible on the LED screen. The Michigan Avenue street wall is visible in the background.
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