crown fountain summer - a photo on Flickriver

            When Millennium Park opened last year the NYT wrote:

Jaume Plensa's high-tech fountain consists of two 50-foot towers of glass blocks facing each other across a black granite plaza. 

The plaza becomes a one-eighth-inch-deep pool, allowing visitors to "walk on water," Mr. Plensa said. Inside the towers, more than one million L.E.D.'s form vast TV screens, on which Mr. Plensa chose to show images of ordinary Chicagoans. (His assistants researched census data, then worked with community organizations to make sure they were photographing a cross section of the city.) 

Faces on the two facing towers are "having a conversation," Mr. Plensa said, adding, "My work is about duality." Each face appears for precisely five minutes; for one of those minutes, its lips purse and spit out a huge stream of water. "It's the gargoyle effect," said Mr. Plensa, who places his creation squarely in the tradition of European fountains in which human forms spout water, suggesting "the giving of life." 

(Yeah. And the kids like it too.)

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Taken on: June 15, 2005

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