Jay Pritzker Pavilion
This 11,000 seat outdoor music theatre was designed by Frank O. Gehry and includes programmed colour-changing lighting of Gehry’s signature soaring stainless steel panels.
Millennium Park
Chicago, IL
Millennium Park is an exciting addition to Chicago that contains a music pavilion, an indoor theatre, a large landscaped garden, two significant commissioned artworks, skating rink, and promenades. Schuler Shook provided lighting design for each of the elements noted below.
Cloud Gate Sculpture
Subtle lighting of elements surrounding Anish Kapoor’s polished stainless steel sculpture allows for the reflection of the Michigan Avenue skyline and the surrounding park landscape.
Crown Fountain
Spanish artist Jaume Plensa’s unique fountain is a multi-media sculpture that utilizes water, video, and colour-changing lighting. Two glass towers, each 50 feet high, stand at either end of a shallow water pool, with water cascading down their sides. Their opposing faces contain large LED video screens, on which play a succession of images of Chicagoans’ faces.
Lurie Garden
This landscaped garden, designed by Kathryn Gustafson, contains two primary elements: the Light Plate and the Dark Plate. The romantic, theatrical lighting of the dense trees and lush vegetation of the Dark Plate contrasts and complements the The Light Plate’s open prairie beds. The Light Plate is softly washed with warm light from tall poles along its east edge.
Project Details
Recognition
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IALD Award of Excellence, 2005
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IES Illumination Design Award of Merit, 2005
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AIA National Honor Award, 2006
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AIA Chicago Honor Award, 2005
