[4k] Walking Tour of Millennium Park (Cloud Gate, Bean Sculpture) Chicago Illinois USA
Millennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and managed by MB Real Estate. The park was originally intended to celebrate the third millennium and is a prominent civic center near the city's Lake Michigan shoreline that covers a 24.5-acre (99,000 m2) section of northwestern Grant Park. The area was previously occupied by parkland, Illinois Central's rail yards, and parking lots.[1] The park, which is bounded by Michigan Avenue, Randolph Street, Columbus Drive and East Monroe Drive, features a variety of public art. As of 2009, Millennium Park trailed only Navy Pier as a Chicago tourist attraction and by 2017 it had become the number one tourist attraction in the Midwestern United States. In 2015, the park became the location of the city's annual Christmas tree lighting.
Planning of the park began in October 1997. Construction began in October 1998, and Millennium Park was opened in a ceremony on July 16, 2004, four years behind schedule. The three-day opening celebrations were attended by some 300,000 people and included an inaugural concert by the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus. The park has received awards for its accessibility and green design.[2] Millennium Park has free admission,[3] and features the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Cloud Gate, the Crown Fountain, the Lurie Garden, and various other attractions. The park is connected by the BP Pedestrian Bridge and the Nichols Bridgeway to other parts of Grant Park. Because the park sits atop a parking garage and the commuter rail Millennium Station, it is considered the world's largest rooftop garden.
Some observers consider Millennium Park the city's most important project since the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.[3][4] It far exceeded its originally proposed budget of $150 million. The final cost of $475 million was borne by Chicago taxpayers and private donors. The city paid $270 million; private donors paid the rest,[5] and assumed roughly half of the financial responsibility for the cost overruns.[6] The construction delays and cost overruns were attributed to poor planning, many design changes, and cronyism. Many critics have praised the completed park.
In 2017, Millennium Park was the top tourist destination in Chicago and the Midwest, and placed among the top ten in the United States with 25 million annual visitors.[7]
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Cloud Gate in Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Visiting Cloud Gate, Sculpture in Chicago, Illinois, United States
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- ... One of the highlights for me was the Cloud Gate in Millenium Park which is also know as the bean ...
- ... sculptures there, like 2 huge block fountains with video of people on the front of each, and the coolest and most recognisable The Cloud Gate , or the Bean as everyone calls it (see the cool pictures) The next day we walked back through the Loop to the ...
- ... Probably the biggest attraction to millenium park is the cloud gate sculpture better known as the big bean ...
- ... We visited the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Cloud Gate or 'the bean' as it's known, which is a wicked sculpture made of stainless steel in Millennium Park that gives a ...
- ... In the park we spent ages looking at the Cloud Gate, a really shiny stainless steal sculpture by Anish Kapoor that the Chicagoans have called 'the bean' ...
- ... Between the amphitheatre and Michigan Drive is a sculpture park and the celebrated monument called Cloud Gate , or as Chicagoans call it, The Bean, due to its shape ...
- ... My Fave was the silver bean, which is actaully called the Cloud Gate ...
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- Our reflection on the Cloud Gate by Jimandlaura from a blog titled Bikes and (high)lights...
- The silver bean (Cloud Gate) by Shaneandsam from a blog titled Chicago
- Our reflection in Cloud Gate by Tjhart258 from a blog titled Chicago Marathon
- Cloud Gate, Millennium Park by Fun333 from a blog titled Saabumine Chicagosse
- Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate by Tjhart258 from a blog titled Chicago Marathon
- Cloud Gate (The Bean) by Mmbcross from a blog titled Back to Millennium Park
- The Cloud Gate by Jimandlaura from a blog titled Bikes and (high)lights...
- Cloud gate 2 by Silverfox41 from a blog titled Chicago
- Cloud Gate 1 by Silverfox41 from a blog titled Chicago
- Cloud gate 3 by Silverfox41 from a blog titled Chicago
- Cloud Gate by Doerty_die from a blog titled the windy city of chicago
Cloud Gate - Chicago, Illinois, United States
Cloud Gate - Chicago, Illinois, United States
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CHICAGO - Millennium Park, Cloud Gate, Crown Fountain, Chicago, Illinois,
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Millennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and managed by MB Real Estate. The park was originally intended to celebrate the third millennium and is a prominent civic center near the city's Lake Michigan shoreline that covers a 24.5-acre (99,000 m2) section of northwestern Grant Park. The area was previously occupied by parkland, Illinois Central's rail yards, and parking lots. The park, which is bounded by Michigan Avenue, Randolph Street, Columbus Drive and East Monroe Drive, features a variety of public art. As of 2009, Millennium Park trailed only Navy Pier as a Chicago tourist attraction and by 2017 it had become the number one tourist attraction in the Midwestern United States. In 2015, the park became the location of the city's annual Christmas tree lighting.
Planning of the park began in October 1997. Construction began in October 1998, and Millennium Park was opened in a ceremony on July 16, 2004, four years behind schedule. The three-day opening celebrations were attended by some 300,000 people and included an inaugural concert by the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus. The park has received awards for its accessibility and green design. Millennium Park has free admission, and features the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Cloud Gate, the Crown Fountain, the Lurie Garden, and various other attractions. The park is connected by the BP Pedestrian Bridge and the Nichols Bridgeway to other parts of Grant Park. Because the park sits atop a parking garage and the commuter rail Millennium Station, it is considered the world's largest rooftop garden.
Some observers consider Millennium Park the city's most important project since the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. It far exceeded its originally proposed budget of $150 million. The final cost of $475 million was borne by Chicago taxpayers and private donors. The city paid $270 million; private donors paid the rest, and assumed roughly half of the financial responsibility for the cost overruns. The construction delays and cost overruns were attributed to poor planning, many design changes, and cronyism. Many critics have praised the completed park.
In 2017, Millennium Park was the top tourist destination in Chicago and the Midwest, and placed among the top ten in the United States with 25 million annual visitors.
Millennium Park and Cloud Gate in Chicago, Illinois
Millennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, US, and originally intended to celebrate the millennium. It is a prominent civic center near the city's Lake Michigan shoreline that covers a 24.5-acre (99,000 m2) section of northwestern Grant Park. The area was previously occupied by parkland, Illinois Central rail yards, and parking lots. The park, which is bounded by Michigan Avenue, Randolph Street, Columbus Drive and East Monroe Drive, features a variety of public art. As of 2009, Millennium Park trailed only Navy Pier as a Chicago tourist attraction.
Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, that is the centerpiece of AT&T Plaza at Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture and AT&T Plaza are located on top of Park Grill, between the Chase Promenade and McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink. Constructed between 2004 and 2006, the sculpture is nicknamed The Bean because of its legume-like shape. Made up of 168 stainless steel plates welded together, its highly polished exterior has no visible seams. It measures 33 by 66 by 42 feet (10 by 20 by 13 m), and weighs 110 short tons (100 t; 98 long tons).
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Cloud Gate aka The Bean Monument (Millenium Park, Downtown Chicago, Illinois)
Cloud Gate aka The Bean Monument is a very large and very unique... erm... Bean, in Millenium Park, Downtown Chicago! They have some food vendors in the area, and a great place to chill in the day. I also have a night time video of this on my channel! The nearby downtown buildings light up different colors!
Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, that is the centerpiece of AT&T Plaza at Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture and AT&T Plaza are located on top of Park Grill, between the Chase Promenade and McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink. Constructed between 2004 and 2006, the sculpture is nicknamed The Bean because of its bean-like shape. Made up of 168 stainless steel plates welded together, its highly polished exterior has no visible seams. It measures 33 by 66 by 42 feet (10 by 20 by 13 m), and weighs 110 short tons (100 t; 98 long tons).
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Cloud Gate, Chicago
Cloud Gate, a public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, is the centerpiece of the AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park within the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Kapoor's design was inspired by liquid mercury and the sculpture's surface reflects and distorts the city's skyline. Visitors are able to walk around and under Cloud Gate's 12-foot (3.7 m) high arch. On the underside is the omphalos (Greek for navel), a concave chamber that warps and multiplies reflections. The sculpture builds upon many of Kapoor's artistic themes, and is popular with tourists as a photo-taking opportunity for its unique reflective properties.
Cloud Gate, Chicago, USA
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The sculpture is nicknamed The Bean because of its bean-like shape
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Porte des Nuages, sculpture étonnante du Millennium park Chicago amazing sculpture
Cloud Gate, a public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, is the centerpiece of the AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park within the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The sculpture and AT&T Plaza are located on top of Park Grill, between the Chase Promenade and McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink. Constructed between 2004 and 2006, the sculpture is nicknamed The Bean because of its bean-like shape. Made up of 168 stainless steel plates welded together, its highly polished exterior has no visible seams. It is 33 by 66 by 42 feet (10 by 20 by 13 m), and weighs 110 short tons (100 t; 98 long tons).
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뉴욕 메트로폴리탄 미술관 다음으로 큰 이 곳에는 26만 점의 작품이 전시돼있다. 개인이나 기관이 기부한 작품이 많아 1층에 기부자 명단이 빼곡히 붙어있다. 미 중서부의 보수성을 표현했다는 명작, 그랜트 우드의 아메리칸 고딕. 이 작품은 도심에서도 만날 수 있다. 시골에서 갓 상경한 부부가 처음 보는 대도시의 웅장함에 잔뜩 긴장한 모습 같다.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where a large following of this work has gotta 260,000 dots display. Private donors roster or work on a lot donated by the agency first floor are attached tightly. That expresses the conservatism of the Midwest Classic, Grant Wood's American Gothic. This work can find in the city. The freshly married couple to Tokyo look like a bunch of nervous as the first time to see the magnificent metropolis in the country.
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■클립명 :아메리카017-미국11-07 아트 인스티튜트 미술관, 아메리칸 고딕/Art Institute Museum/American Gothic/Grant wood
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Millennium park Chicago Illinois | Cloud Gate | Bean Tour | Downtown News | Vlog 4 | Okesh Sharma
Millennium park in Chicago downtown Illinois is famous for cloud gate tour and bean. as per local news this is best place to visit in chicago. this vieo is in hindi.
Millennium park Chicago Illinois | Cloud Gate | Bean Tour | Downtown News | Vlog 4 | Okesh Sharma
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미시건 호숫가, 일명 연필과 지우개라는 별명을 갖고 있는 건물 옆으로 밀레니엄파크가 있다. 철길을 공원으로 만들어 2004년에 개장한 이 곳의 명물은 클라우드 게이트. 강낭콩이라는 애칭을 갖고 있는 이 조형물은 아름다운 스카이라인을 한눈에 볼 수 있도록 만들어졌다. “이런 작품은 전에 본 적이 없어요. 정말 멋있고 기발해요.” 스카이라인 속에 있는 내 모습을 카메라에 담아본다. 더욱 기발한 건 이 분수. 시카고 시민 천 명의 얼굴이 들어있는데 4분마다 다른 사람으로 바뀐다. 직육면체의 분수는 시카고 빌딩숲을, 바닥에 얇게 고이는 물은 미시건 호수를 상징한다는데, 분수가 입을 오므리면, 조심해야 한다! 그저 조용한 휴식공간이 아니라 기발한 아이디어가 번뜩이는 공원이다.
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Michigan lakefront, aka The Millennium Park is next to the building that has the nickname pencil and eraser. The railroad made specialty of this place is the park opened in 2004, Cloud Gate. This sculpture was created so that you can see at a glance the beautiful skyline that has a nickname beans. This work has never seen before. It's really cool and quirky. I think I put that figure into the skyline to the camera. The fountain thing more whimsical. The Chicago contains thousands of citizens turned to face the other person every 4 minutes. The fountain is a rectangular solid woods Building Chicago, I accumulate water is thin on the ground symbolizes Lake Michigan, if the fountain Omri mouth, be careful! Just a quiet getaway this is not a brilliant idea flashed a park.
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■클립명 :아메리카017-미국11-06 밀레니엄 파크의 강낭콩/Millennium Park/Cloud Gate/Water Fountain
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Cloud Gate, Chicago (The bean) IL 2014 (HD 1080p)
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Cloud Gate | Grant Park | Chicago Illinois | United States
Cloud Gate | Grant Park | Chicago Illinois | United States
Chicago Millennium Park - amazing bean egg sculpture CLOUD GATE
Cloud Gate, a popular site for photography
The AT&T Plaza is a public space that hosts the Cloud Gate sculpture.[61] The plaza opened in July 2004 with the unveiling of the sculpture during the grand opening weekend of the park. Ameritech donated $3 million for the naming right for the plaza, but it was SBC Plaza when the park opened, as a merger had changed the company name to SBC Communications.[27][62] The 2005 merger of SBC and AT&T led to the present name. The sculpture and the AT&T Plaza are located on top of Park Grill, between the Chase Promenade and McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink. The plaza has become a place to view the McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink. During the holiday season, the plaza hosts Christmas caroling.[63]
Cloud Gate is a three-story steel sculpture that has been dubbed The Bean by Chicagoans, because of its legume-like shape. The sculpture is the first public artwork in the United States by world-renowned artist Anish Kapoor. The privately funded piece cost $23 million, considerably more than the original estimate of $6 million. Composed of 168 stainless steel plates welded together, its highly polished exterior has no visible seams. It is 33×66×42 feet (10×20×13 m) and weighs 110 short tons (100 t; 98 long tons).[64]
After Kapoor's design for the sculpture was selected during a design competition,[65] numerous technological concerns regarding the design's construction and assembly arose,[64][66][67][68] in addition to concerns regarding the sculpture's upkeep and maintenance.[67][69] Experts were consulted, some of whom believed the design could not be implemented.[70] Eventually, a feasible method was found, but the sculpture's construction fell behind schedule. Cloud Gate was unveiled in an incomplete form during the Millennium Park grand opening celebration,[71] as the grid of welds around each metal panel was still visible.[72] The sculpture was concealed again while it was completed;[73][74] in early 2005, workers polished out the seams.[72] Cloud Gate was formally dedicated on May 15, 2006,[75][76] and it has since gained considerable popularity, both domestically and internationally.[77][78][79][80][81]
Cloud Gate is a reflective steel sculpture that is inspired by liquid mercury; the sculpture's surface reflects and distorts the city's skyline.[65][82] The curved, mirror-like surface of the sculpture provides striking reflections of visitors,[77] the city skyline (particularly the historic Michigan Avenue streetwall) and the sky.[83][84] Visitors are able to walk around and under Cloud Gate's 12-foot (3.7 m) high arch. On the underside is the omphalos (Greek for navel), a concave chamber that warps and multiplies reflections. The sculpture builds upon many of Kapoor's artistic themes and is popular with tourists as a photo-taking opportunity for its unique reflective properties.[85][86]
'Bean' Father Visits His Famous Chicago Sculpture
Sir Anish Kapoor is okay with people calling his Cloud Gate masterpiece The Bean because it belongs to everyone now. CBS 2's Vince Gerasole talks with the British artist.
Chicago's Cloud Gate
Chicago's infamous bean also known as the Cloud Gate in beautiful millenium park.