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41. Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, May 27, 2004 Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, May 27, 2004 Steel; Tents; Construction workers; Hoisting machinery; A worker installs a steel plate onto the sculpture with a close-up of cables and rigging in the foreground.
42. Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, June 1, 2004 Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, June 1, 2004 Steel; Construction workers; Reflections; Welding; Plywood; Scaffolding; A worker prepares to weld steel plates onto the sculpture.
43. Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, June 5, 2004 Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, June 5, 2004 Steel; Trusses; Structural systems; Tents; Construction workers; Pails; Inside view of the partially completed sculpture showing the structure of iron trusses, cables and rigging, that temporarily held the steel plates in place while the sculpture was assembled. A worker is...
44. Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, June 10, 2004 Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, June 10, 2004 Steel; Trusses; Structural systems; Tents; Construction workers; Reflections; A worker smiles between steel plates on the partially completed sculpture.
45. Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, June 10, 2004 Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, June 10, 2004 Steel; Tents; Construction workers; Dollies (Moving equipment); Blankets; Marks (Symbols); A worker moves a cradle bearing a steel plate.
46. Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, June 10, 2004 Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, June 10, 2004 Steel; Trusses; Tents; Construction workers; Reflections; A worker's face is visible between steel plates on the partially completed sculpture.
47. Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, June 10, 2004 Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, June 10, 2004 Steel; Trusses; Construction workers; Reflections; A worker's face is visible between steel plates on the partially completed sculpture.
48. Cloud Gate, attaching the final plate, June 28, 2004 Cloud Gate, attaching the final plate, June 28, 2004 Steel; Hoisting machinery; Construction workers; Tents; Flags; Ethan Silva, president of Performance Structures, Inc. (PSI) (left), and artist Anish Kapoor (right) look on as a worker gestures to the crane operator, out of view, to lower the last plate into place....
49. Cloud Gate, polishing, May 19, 2005 Cloud Gate, polishing, May 19, 2005 Steel; Scaffolding; Ladders; Tents; Construction workers; Reflections; Grinding; A worker grinds the surface of the sculpture using a 15 pound air-driven belt sander (sometimes referred to as a road grader). Workers wore respirators and polyethylene jumpsuits for protection while polishing...
50. Cloud Gate, polishing, May 19, 2005 Cloud Gate, polishing, May 19, 2005 Steel; Grinding; Scaffolding; Ladders; Construction workers; Tents; Reflections; A worker grinds the surface of the sculpture using a 15 pound air-driven belt sander (sometimes referred to as a road grader). Workers wore respirators and polyethylene jumpsuits for protection while polishing...
51. Cloud Gate, polishing, May 19, 2005 Cloud Gate, polishing, May 19, 2005 Steel; Scaffolding; Construction workers; Grinding; Tents; Reflections; Marks (Symbols); A worker grinds the sculpture using a platen sander (a.k.a an air-driven ten pound belt sander). After being ground with 40-grit sandpaper disks, the road grader was applied to the sculpture's surface,...
52. Cloud Gate, grinding, May 19, 2005 Cloud Gate, grinding, May 19, 2005 Steel; Scaffolding; Construction workers; Grinding; Ladders; Marks (Symbols); A worker grinds the sculpture using a platen sander (a.k.a an air-driven ten pound belt sander). In addition to grinding and polishing the seams where the plates were welded, a two to three feet wide area...
53. Cloud Gate, polishing, May 19, 2005 Cloud Gate, polishing, May 19, 2005 Steel; Scaffolding; Construction workers; Grinding; Tents; Plywood; Reflections; A worker grinds the sculpture using a platen sander (a.k.a an air-driven ten pound belt sander).
54. Cloud Gate, polishing, May 19, 2005 Cloud Gate, polishing, May 19, 2005 Steel; Scaffolding; Construction workers; Grinding; Ladders; Reflections; A worker grinds the sculpture using a platen sander (a.k.a an air-driven ten pound belt sander).
55. Cloud Gate, polishing, May 19, 2005 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...
56. Cloud Gate, polishing, May 19, 2005 Cloud Gate, polishing, May 19, 2005 Steel; Scaffolding; Construction workers; Ladders; Reflections; Sand; A worker refines the surface of the sculpture using a double action disk sander, rubbing out the fine scratches left from the platen sander.
57. Crown Fountain, fabricating the glass bricks, May 21, 2003 Crown Fountain, fabricating the glass bricks, May 21, 2003 Glass industry; Industrial facilities; Glassworking; Glassworkers; A glass worker at the L.E. Smith Glass Company in Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, the company that made over 22,000 glass bricks for the Crown Fountain. At the height of production L.E. Smith was able to make...
58. Crown Fountain, fabricating the glass bricks, May 21, 2003 Crown Fountain, fabricating the glass bricks, May 21, 2003 Industrial facilities; Glass industry; Molds (Shaping tools); A mold for casting the glass bricks at the L.E. Smith Glass Company in Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania. To obtain the clearest possible glass brick, the bricks were cast in these molds using a pressed-glass...
59. 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; Ladders; Lighting; A worker makes adjustments to 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...
60. Crown Fountain, excavation and construction of reservoir, September 19, 2003 Crown Fountain, excavation and construction of reservoir, September 19, 2003 Excavation; Skyscrapers; Construction workers; Retaining walls; Pipes (Conduits); Trees; Surveying equipment; A worker checks progress during construction of the concrete retaining walls surrounding the reservoir of Crown Fountain.
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