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Jay Pritzker
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Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Frank Gehry, winner of the
National Medal of Art, applied his signature style to this
revolutionary outdoor concert venue. The Pavilion stands
120-feet high, with a billowing headdress of brushed stainless
steel ribbons that frame the stage opening and connect to an
overhead trellis of crisscrossing steel pipes. The trellis
supports the sound system, which spans the 4,000 fixed seats
and the Great Lawn, which accommodates an additional 7,000
people.
This state-of-the-art sound system, the first
of its kind in the country, was designed to mimic the
acoustics of an indoor concert hall by distributing enhanced
sound equally over both the fixed seats and the
lawn.
The Jay Pritzker Pavilion is home to the Grant Park Music Festival and other free concerts and
events. It was named in memory of Chicago business leader
Jay Pritzker, who with his wife Cindy, established the
Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1979.
"How do you
make everyone - not just the people in the seats, but the
people sitting 400 feet away on the lawn - feel good about
coming to this place to listen to music? And the answer is,
you bring them into it. You make the proscenium larger; you
build a trellis with a distributed sound system. You make
people feel part of the experience."
-Frank Gehry |
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