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Crown Fountain
 Michigan Avenue at Randolph, Chicago, Illinois, Millennium Park 60601 United States Print this page • 
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One of the most interesting pieces of interactive art in Chicago, the Crown Fountain at first mystifies, then embraces, and then (if you don't mind getting a little wet) immerses the viewer in art. Two 50-foot towers flank an ever-so-slightly sunken plaza. From the tower pour a continuous shower of water that fills the plaza to a depth of one-eighth of an inch -- enough to be fun, but not enough to ruin your clothes should you choose to walk through it, which is encouraged. The water pours down the towers glass block exterior in a cascade on three sides. The fourth side features banks of red, green, and blue LEDs that when viewed from a respectable distance give the illusion of projected video. During daylight hours, the faces of one-thousand Chicagoans are displayed on the towers one at a time. Each persists for 13 minutes, and during the final minute, their lips purse and a spout of water shoots from their mouths. A cascade of water falls over the faces, and a new one is revealed. These people were selected and filmed by students from the Art Institute of Chicago. They were not told they would be part of a fountain. Instead, they were instructed to act as if they were blowing a kiss. Whatever works. At night, the water does not shoot out of the mouths, and the image is not of Chicagoans, but of pastoral waterfalls and streams while the towers other surfaces glow in changing colors. Sponsored by: Chicago Spire Condo Information Quick Facts
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» Each tower is made with 10,000 glass bricks. Rate This Monument method='post' action='/Building.php?ID=640#Rate'>Current rating:  80% name='Rating' id='Rating' value='Praise' class='Plain'> name='Rating' id='Rating' value='Raze' class='Plain'>Your Thoughts There are five comments.
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I´m a student of Interior design, and my Volume teacher just introduded us this today. I´m impressed, I really think it´s amazing architectonically as emotionaly... I would really like to experiment that in a summer day or night :) 
Way too big. Idea "cute" but who need cute that large? About i5" tall would make people GO there and paticipate--too distracting on such a large scale. I am a portrait artist and I like this use of a human face, but--too late I say CUT!
