Architecture: Post'm here

The AON Center (previously known as the Amoco Building) was designed by Perkins & Will and Edward Stone. It was completed in 1974 to become the second tallest building in Chicago. It is 1,136 feet high with 80 stories and 2.3 million square feet of floor space. It offers spectacular views of Chicago and Lake Michigan from all floors.
The tallest building in U.S.A. to ever change its name. Aon Center was known for a long time as the Amoco Building and before that as the Standard Oil Building (or affectionately as "Big Stan").

This is the tallest building in the world without any major antennae, spires, or finials at the top.

A major feature of Millennium Park is the 110-ton elliptical sculpture designed by the celebrated British artist Anish Kapoor, one of the most prolific and respected sculptors in the world. "Cloud Gate," the monumental sculpture located on SBC Plaza was named by the artist on June 29 when the final panel of the ellptical sculpture was installed.

The sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly-polished stainless steel "plates" that create an elliptically-arched, highly reflective work with Chicago's skyline and Millennium Park itself as a dramatic backdrop. Visitors will be able to fully experience the majestic nature of the work by literally walking through and around, as it was designed for public interaction. Inspired by liquid mercury, the sculpture is among the largest in the world, measuring 66-feet long by 33-feet high.

Anish Kapoor revealed his chosen title for the elliptical stainless steel sculpture - Cloud Gate. As is his custom, Kapoor waited until the sculpture was fully assembled to reveal its name. Now on view, the polishing of Cloud Gate will be complete by the fall. The sculpture is made possible by a gift from the SBC Corporation.

"What I wanted to do in Millennium Park is make something that would engage the Chicago skyline," says Kapoor. "So everything that's white in this model would be ground, earth, and everything that isn't white would be sky, so that one will see the clouds kind of floating in, with those very tall buildings reflected in the work.

"And then, since it is in the form of a gate, the participant, the viewer, will be able to enter into this very deep chamber that does in a way the same thing to one's reflection as the exterior of the piece is doing to the reflection of the city around.

"It's a multiple-layered experience of a kind of personal space that's opened up in the stone and the city space that's reflected on the exterior."