| Millennium Park Music Pavilion
Haga click aquí para ver el mapa At the dawn of the new millennium, Chicago began a park redevelopment project that has cemented its reputation as model for public arts and architecture. Two new jewels of the renamed Millennium Park include the Peristyle, a semi-circle of Greek columns that will serve as the site for Gay Games medal ceremonies, and the Frank Gehry-designed Millennium Park Music Pavilion, with its new band shell, site of Sing-Out and Step-Out, the Gay Games VII choral and band presentations.
Sixty-foot tall ribbons of steel reminiscent of brass horns, flower petals, crashing waves and a ship's sails spring out of a state-of-the art performance stage surrounded by landscaping and pedestrian facilities specifically designed to enhance sound projection toward the seating area and lawn. A serpentine footbridge augments other access points and screens out sound interference from the bustling metropolis nearby. With Chicago's famous skyline surrounding the park like the flying buttresses of a great Gothic cathedral, the experience by musician and spectator alike will be exhilarating.
Born in Toronto in 1929, Frank Owen Gehry is one of the most innovative architects of his time. Drawing upon the influences of the likes of Richard Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright, his work is now recognized worldwide with projects in the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Japan, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland and the United States. Now based in Los Angeles, he has won more than 80 international awards during his career, including his most recent an American Institute of Architect's Gold Medal.
The park's main band shell will be able to accommodate an orchestra of 120 musicians and a chorus of 150 singers. It has fixed seating for 4,000 and a 95,000-square-foot lawn area can serve a combined audience of more than 11,000 people, with excellent sound quality provided through a state-of-the-art trellis network of speakers - the first of its kind in the world - that will rival the concert sounds of any outdoor venue. Park plans also include a 2-1/2-acre garden and a 400-space indoor bicycle parking facility. There are also thousands of indoor parking spaces below the park. 
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