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21.	Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, April 14, 2004	Structural frames; Structural systems; Steel; Trusses; Hoisting machinery; Skyscrapers; Construction workers; I-beams;	Looking north toward the partially completed sculpture over which a weatherproof tent is being constructed. The tent provided shelter for the workers during cold weather, and added a cloak of secrecy as...

22.	Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, April 14, 2004	Structural systems; Structural frames; Trusses; Steel; Hoisting machinery; Skyscrapers; Construction workers; Pickup trucks; I-beams;	Looking northwest toward the partially completed sculpture over which a weatherproof tent is being constructed. Buildings visible in the background include the Smurfit-Stone Building, and Millennium Park...

23.	Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, April 14, 2004	Structural frames; Structural systems; Trusses; Steel; Hoisting machinery; Construction workers; Skyscrapers;	Looking north toward the partially completed sculpture over which a weatherproof tent is being constructed. The tent provided shelter for the workers during cold weather, and added a cloak of secrecy as...

24.	Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, April 15, 2004	Structural frames; Structural systems; Steel; Trusses; Construction workers; Hoisting machinery; Skyscrapers; I-beams;	Looking north toward the partially completed sculpture over which a weatherproof tent is being constructed. The tent provided shelter for the workers during cold weather, and added a cloak of secrecy as...

25.	Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, April 15, 2004	Structural frames; Structural systems; Steel; Trusses; Hoisting machinery; Construction workers; Skyscrapers; I-beams;	Looking north toward the partially completed sculpture over which a weatherproof tent is being constructed. The tent provided shelter for the workers during cold weather, and added a cloak of secrecy as...

26.	Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, April 15, 2004	Structural frames; Structural systems; Steel; Trusses; Hoisting machinery; Skyscrapers; I-beams;	Looking north toward the partially completed sculpture over which a weatherproof tent is being constructed.

27.	Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, April 23, 2004	Tents; Structural frames; Structural systems; Automobiles; Skyscrapers; Construction workers; Construction equipment; I-beams; Plywood;	Looking northwest toward the site of the partially completed sculpture over which a weatherproof tent has been erected.

28.	Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, April 23, 2004	Tents; Structural frames; Structural systems; Automobiles; I-beams; Construction workers; Construction equipment; Skyscrapers; Plywood;	Looking northwest toward the site of the partially completed sculpture over which a weatherproof tent has been erected.

29.	Cloud Gate, fabrication, model of Cloud Gate, December 17, 2002	Models; Dolls	Close-up view of a foam model of Cloud Gate next to an E.T. doll. Several foam models were created by Performance Structures Inc. (PSI) to resolve slight differences in shape between the computer rendering...

30.	Cloud Gate, polishing, May 19, 2005	Steel; Scaffolding; Construction workers; Ladders; Reflections; Plywood;	A worker refines the surface of the sculpture using a double action disk sander, rubbing out the fine scratches left from the platen sander. The official dedication ceremony for Cloud Gate occurred May...

31.	Cloud Gate, sander, May 25, 2005	Equipment	Once the seams had been ground, the sculpture's surface was treated with a 15 pound air-driven belt sander (sometimes referred to as a road grader), pictured here. All of the tools used in grinding and...

32.	Cloud Gate, SBC Plaza, ca. March 3, 2004	Concrete; I-beams; Structural systems; Trusses; Scaffolding; Skyscrapers; Marks (Symbols);	Looking northwest toward I-beams below the base of the sculpture. The sculpture is located on a load-bearing wall which separates two rooftops of different heights.

33.	Cloud Gate, trial assembly in Oakland, California, steel plate, September 18, 2003	Steel; Dollies (Moving equipment); Hoisting machinery; Structural systems; Structural frames;	An individual steel plate atop a cradle before its attachment to the structural steel during a trial assembly at Performance Structures, Inc. (PSI) in Oakland, California. PSI developed a procedure in...

34.	Cloud Gate, trial assembly in Oakland, California, structural steel, April 21, 2003	Steel; Structural systems; Hoisting machinery; Industrial facilities;	The structural steel of the sculpture (later named Cloud Gate) during a trial assembly at Performance Structures, Inc. (PSI) in Oakland, California. Before shipping the parts of the sculpture to Chicago,...

35.	Crown Fountain, assembly in Melbourne, Florida, ca. January 29, 2004	Industrial facilities; Structural frames; Glass blocks; Fans (Machinery); Pails;	A glass brick panel fabricated and assembled by Circle Redmont Inc., in Melbourne, Florida. The panel is made up of a steel grid with glass bricks in each of the openings. The bricks were adhered to their...

36.	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. In Plensa’s...

37.	Crown Fountain, checking clarity of glass brick panels, April 6, 2004	Glass blocks; Structural frames; Construction workers; Ladders; Pipes (Conduits); Faces; Skyscrapers;	Artist Jaume Plensa checks the clarity of newly installed glass brick panels on Crown Fountain's north tower. The north tower has been fitted with all but the last LED panel which will go behind the gargoyle...

38.	Crown Fountain, computer rendering, ca. November 15, 2002	Specifications; Fountains;	An image from a report by Krueck & Sexton Architects in which text is superimposed over a rendering of the fountain. Krueck + Sexton Architects was tasked with making Jaume Plensa's fountain concept a...

39.	Crown Fountain, dentist chair, video production, July 30, 2003	Motion picture studios; Stuffed animals (Toys);	The dentist’s chair that Chicagoans sat in to be filmed while making Crown Fountain’s videos. The camera that was used to film the subjects was a high definition camcorder, the same kind...

40.	Crown Fountain, east perimeter of site, test of reservoir, March 4, 2004	Reservoirs; Testing; Construction equipment; Construction workers; Skyscrapers; Concrete; Trees; Reflections; Structural systems;	Looking south along the east perimeter of the construction site during a test of the reservoir. The towers have been fitted with all but the last LED panels which will go behind the "gargoyle" nozzles....

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