
- The Crown Fountain | Millennium Park | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang
Spanish artist Jaume Plensa’s Crown Fountain, a $17 million interactive public art located in the Millennium Park in downtown Chicago, was completed in 2004. Plensa stated that “A fountain is the memory of nature. . . For me, a fountain doesn't mean a big jet of water. It means humidity, the origin of life.” Two 50-feet glass brick towers and a pool are the main structures of this project. Video footages of 1,000 Chicagoans, produced at the downtown campus of the SAIC School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a HDW-F900 video camera, were projected on towers’ LED screens. The entire project was made possible through private donations with $10 million from the Crown family.












