Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Chicago

Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago

In the heart of Millennium Park, the Jay Pritzker Pavilion hosts concerts and other cultural events in the shade of its sleek metal tangle spanning a vast lawn. It was designed by architect Frank Gehry, creator of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. It can accommodate 11,000 people (4,000 fixed seats).

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This open-air concert hall rises to the challenge of distributing remarkable acoustics, transmitted by dozens of loudspeakers ingeniously suspended from the metal arches of the vaulted structure. Arranged at regular intervals, they diffuse a unique and absolutely identical sound throughout the pavilion, no matter where you are under the amphitheater, even at the edge of the lawn.

Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park

For ten weeks each summer, the Pavilion hosts the Grant Park Music Festival and its series of outdoor classical concerts, allowing music lovers to experience the full acoustic complexity of this giant metal shell washed up on the shores of Lake Michigan.