Chicago Picture Post (3): More to see

[franceslievens]

There's more to see in Chicago than simple buildings. Let's collect some other things I gawked at, but not everything there is to see.


[Trains]

Wicker Park pays tribute to L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by placing the main characters of the book at main entrances of the park.


[Dorothy & Toto] [Scarecrow] [Tin Man] [The Cowardly Lion]


[Fountain in Millennium Park designed by Jaime Plense]


[Pedestrian bridge by Frank Gehry in Millennium Park]


[Navy Pier]


[Skyline seen from Navy Pier]


[Printer's Row]


[Skeleton of T-Rex Sue at The Field Museum]


[The Darwin Exhibition]


[Rooftop bleachers outside Wrigley Field]

Comments

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing.

Is the face part of the fountain? And how was it done? Tiles?

We've got a couple of Gehry houses and we're very proud of them (though the builders messed up and after about a year or so some of them needed to be repaired).

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

From The Rough Guide to Chicago: "In the southwest corner of the park, two 50ft-glass towers facing one another across a granite plaza form Crown Fountain (http://images.google.be/images?q=crown%20fountain&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:nl:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi), the work of renowned Spanish architect Jaime Plense. Kaleidoscopic video images project one thousand Chicagoans from digital LED screens enclosed within the towers, and intermittently, water spurts from the puckered lips of the pixilated image to the glee of the frolicking children."

I saw loads of water, but it only came down from the towers, not from the lips of the digital people. When you're standing there you can see the images change, but not too often, so you get the time to take a nice picture of one. I thought it wouldn't come out very well, but was surprised by the result.

Gehry also designed an open-air concert hall for Millennium Park, the Jay Pritzker Pavilion (http://images.google.be/images?q=pritzker%20pavilion&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:nl:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi), but my pictures of that one didn't come out very well.

(Both links to pictures.)

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

I like that fountain, very inventive and the water spurts are fun (though I don't quite get their point apart from amusing children).

At some point I'll do a picture post of our Gehry houses. I've got one pic up where you can spot them in the distance if you know where they are, but it doesn't showcase them at all.

[lijability.livejournal.com]

Dangit.... It doesn't want to show me Sue or the Darwin Exhibit. Maybve after I post this it will on refresh.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Hmm, maybe if I give you the direct link, so you can open them in anothe window...

For Sue: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/frances_lievens/Chicago_2007/SueatFieldMuseum.jpg

For the Darwin exhibit: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/frances_lievens/Chicago_2007/TheDarwinExhibitionatFieldMuseum.jpg

Does that work?

[lijability.livejournal.com]

I saw them... neat!