Grainger Plaza is a public space that hosts the Cloud Gate sculpture. It is located in Millennium Park, which is a park built to celebrate the third millennium and which is located within the Loop com
Plaza with Cloud Gate behind McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink
A tent was erected on AT&T Plaza to cover Cloud Gate while it was being polished.
Pavers engraved with the Plaza's former name, SBC Plaza
Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor that is the centerpiece of Grainger Plaza at Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Constructed between
Grainger Plaza
…Grainger Plaza (formerly AT&T Plaza, Ameritech Plaza and SBC Plaza) is a public space that hosts the Cloud Gate sculpture. It is located in Millennium Park, which is a park built to celebrate the third millennium and which is located within the Loop community…
The design was inspired by liquid mercury.
Anish Kapoor's design proposal was chosen over works by 30 different artists.
In 2004, the first of two internal support rings for the sculpture was erected in Millennium Park, on what is now Grainger Plaza.