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Jaume Plensaís design was selected for
the $17 million Crown Fountain,
in Chicagoís Millenium park's
southwest corner.
The installation consists of a pair
of 50-foot-tall glass-brick towers
facing each other across
a black granite plaza covered with
a one-eighth-inch layer of water
(upon which visitors are invited
to tread, creating the illusion
of walking on water).
Each tower encases an LED video screen
that projects a complex,
computer-controlled sequence
of colored lights and high-definition
images of the faces
of 1,000 different Chicagoans.
Water cascades down the sides
of the towers and at strategic moments playfully gushes out from between
the digital faces' pursed lips.

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