What Is It?????????

[WazLady73]

Ok...Quiz Time Folks...

What is this??????

And bonus points for anyone that knows WHERE it is....

Good Luck! :Thumb

Hint: You can walk thru it. (Picture was taken inside) See it from the outside. And in a park that took about 5 years to complete....

[mach250]

looks like an aluminum room in a mall?

[Orangepeel]

Wow! Interesting picture, WazLady :Thumb!

It looks like a metal, but then maybe it's a glass structure. Not sure if it's a mirror image, or an image distorted thru glass. I tried googling around, but matches came up zippo.

Very neat, very intriguing...can't wait to find out what it is!

[Tazmanian Devil]

A baloon?
hmmmm....

[WazLady73]

Ok time for an update...

Many of you were on the right track....

This piece is at the new Millenium Park in Chicago. I was there yesterday and took some pic's. I didn't wal thru the whole place but covered good ground. This park was about 5 years in the making after Mayor Daley unveiled his plans in 1997. This area where the park is was an old train yard. This is prime piece of real estate smack dab in the heart of downtown Chicago. The Lake is right across the street almost. This park is beautiful. A great place for office workers to enjoy lunch, visitors, and most of all getting in is FREE! :thumb

Here are some pictures I took.

Ok for the pic I asked of you...here it is from the outside....

Many corporate sponsors donated money for each section. This one is call the SBC Plaza.

Here is some inf:

Kapoor Sculpture on SBC Plaza

The Cloud Gate sculpture will be covered for polishing on January 4 and will be uncovered when work is completed in early Spring.

A major feature of Millennium Park is the 110-ton elliptical sculpture designed by the celebrated British artist Anish Kapoor, one of the most prolific and respected sculptors in the world. "Cloud Gate," the monumental sculpture located on SBC Plaza was named by the artist on June 29 when the final panel of the ellptical sculpture was installed.

The sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly-polished stainless steel "plates" that create an elliptically-arched, highly reflective work with Chicago’s skyline and Millennium Park itself as a dramatic backdrop. Visitors will be able to fully experience the majestic nature of the work by literally walking through and around, as it was designed for public interaction. Inspired by liquid mercury, the sculpture is among the largest in the world, measuring 66-feet long by 33-feet high.

Anish Kapoor revealed his chosen title for the elliptical stainless steel sculpture – Cloud Gate. As is his custom, Kapoor waited until the sculpture was fully assembled to reveal its name. Now on view, the polishing of Cloud Gate will be complete by the fall. The sculpture is made possible by a gift from the SBC Corporation.

"What I wanted to do in Millennium Park is make something that would engage the Chicago skyline," says Kapoor. "So everything that’s white in this model would be ground, earth, and everything that isn’t white would be sky, so that one will see the clouds kind of floating in, with those very tall buildings reflected in the work.

"And then, since it is in the form of a gate, the participant, the viewer, will be able to enter into this very deep chamber that does in a way the same thing to one’s reflection as the exterior of the piece is doing to the reflection of the city around.

"It’s a multiple-layered experience of a kind of personal space that’s opened up in the stone and the city space that’s reflected on the exterior."

[WazLady73]

My first picture is taken inside of it. When you walk inside the interior is high so people were taking pictures. I love the results I got!

The whole thing is like a mirror of sorts....

Here is another WONDERFUL attraction from Millennium Park. The Crown Fountian!

This is awesome!

One of the most popular ones!

My friend Kelly and I just sat down near a wall that overlooked it and had lunch and people watched. Then we took off our shoes and got into the water. The water is about only 2 inches deep but felt good as the weather yesterday was perfect!

The bottom of the fountion has a specially made rubber floor. So you cannot slip while wading in the water. Since they knew children would love this part of the park...safety was a concern. And I will say that is true. You cannot slip while in it!

Here is some info:
Designed by Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa, The Crown Fountain features two 50-foot high glass block towers at each end of a shallow reflecting pool. The towers are activated with changing video images and lights, and water cascades from the top of each.

Anchoring the southwest corner of Millennium Park at Michigan Avenue and Monroe Streets, The Crown Fountain is a major addition to the city’s world-renowned public art collection. Inspired by the people of Chicago whose faces appear on the glass towers’ changing video images, this site-specific work creates both a unique meeting point and a dynamic space for silent reflection. Utilizing water, light, and glass, Plensa has created a bold statement that is sure to stimulate passers-by and invite them to enter and experience Millennium Park.

The fountain is a gift of the Crown and Goodman families of Chicago.

"I’m very proud obviously to do a piece in Chicago, because historically the city is a point of reference in architecture and public space," says Plensa. "There’s a tremendous possibility in this project to finally talk about the soul of the piece. I always believe that people give that soul by breathing life into the architecture. Real life. We are filming 1,000 faces for a large mosaic. One face appears for about 13 minutes on the screen. It’s a silent and quiet place, with only the sound of water. Then I did two long benches where people could just sit and relax.

"I have always maintained that sculpture has more to do with time than with such secondary problems as scale or space. Time being the sediment of experiences within a general memory where our recollections also fit. The finished work begins its own cycle, and just like another memory it becomes linked to the vaster memory, in which no chronology makes sense. Time is the substance of my work."

[WazLady73]

Here are some pic's I took.

One of them with the sun at the angle could not get a good picture of the person's face on it. They do change. Then every 5 mins water comes from the mouth for about 60 seconds. Then that stops then water gushes from the top down like a waterfall.

Really Neat!

[WazLady73]

Here is another one that didn't upload...

You can see the water coming from the mouth....

My friend Kelly got a kick out of this..while we were eating lunch someone was in front of the fountian and was getting a picture taken and the water started to come out and hit the poor guy in the behind by suprise....