Panasonic Refreshes Chicago’s Iconic Crown Fountain with LED Video Displays

Situated along Michigan Avenue in bustling downtown Chicago, Crown Fountain greets visitors to the city’s futuristic Millennium Park with a surprising twist on the public fountain. The unique structure is an ode to Chicagoans: It comprises two identical fifty-foot-high glass brick towers, with a shallow pool in between, each one displaying huge, looped videos of actual citizens’ faces. Inside of the glass bricks is a network of LEDs, and a small spout at the mouth of each face regularly “spits” a stream of