Jay Pritzker Pavilion
The Jay Pritzker Pavilion is a concert shell in Millennium Park on the Chicago Loop in Chicago . It's on the south side of Randolph Street. The pavilion was named after Jay Pritzker , whose family owns the Hyatt hotels . The building was designed by the architect Frank Gehry . The pavilion was built between June 1999 and July 2004 and officially opened on July 16, 2004.
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The pavilion serves as the centerpiece of Millennium Park and is the new home of the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra and Choir and the Grant Park Music Festival. It also hosts a wide range of events. Performers from mainstream rock bands, classical musicians and opera singers have performed in the pavilion, but physical fitness events such as yoga have also taken place there. All rehearsals in the pavilion are public.
A lawsuit preceded the construction of the pavilion due to historical restrictions on the height of the buildings in Grant Park. To avoid these legal restrictions, the city classifies the concert shell as a work of art and not a building.
Due to design and assembly problems, the construction plans have been revised several times over the years. In the end, the concert shell was built with a large fixed seating area with 4,000 seats as well as a further 7,000 seats on the Great Lawn, a stainless steel grid construction and a sound system. The acoustic design of the sound system enables a sound experience that is reminiscent of a concert hall.
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- ↑ Jay Pritzker Pavilion. Retrieved June 20, 2014 .
- ↑ The Jay Pritzker Music Pavilion Sounds as Good as it Looks. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 19, 2007 ; Retrieved June 20, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 41 ° 52 ′ 58.8 ″ N , 87 ° 37 ′ 18.7 ″ W.