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ANISH KAPOOR's 'Cloud Gate' in Chicago's Millenium Park. |
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A TOTAL OF 168 mirror finished stainless steel plates cover the 10-metre high
by 20-metre long sculpture. |
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Visitors to Chicago’s Millenium Park got a sneak preview of Anish Kapoor’s stainless steel sculpture
'Cloud Gate' for one brief week in July 2004. The sculpture, which measures 20 metres long and 10 metres
high, has been covered up again so that the plates of mirror finished stainless steel (S31600) can be welded together and the seams buffed to blend into the surrounding
plates. The final sculpture is to be totally seam free and was be unveiled again in November.
Cloud Gate's mirrored finish is fabricated of a seamless series of 168 highly polished, stainless steel
plates, and its elliptical shape reflects the activity and lights of the park and the surrounding city
skyline. With a 4-metre high concave area underneath, the sculpture invites visitors to visually interact
with its mirror-like surface. According to Kapoor, he wanted the piece to have a classical feel yet at the
same time to be very contemporary.
Foundry Award
Nickel Institute consultant John C. Morrison has been awarded the prestigious British Foundry Metal and Prize for 2004. The award was presented for his paper entitled "Ductile Ni-Resist Type S2W for the Pump Industry," which was published in the January 2003 issue of Foundryman.
The award was presented at the Institute of Cast Metals Engineers’s centenary awards dinner which was held
at Ettington Chase, England on October 22, 2004.
PHOTOS: Thomas Ready/Nickel Institute
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