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"Your eyes are going to hunt for the seams. Give it a second. There aren't any, and that absence is the whole achievement. This is Cloud Gate, built from a hundred and sixty-eight separate plates of stainless steel, bent to shape and welded together over an internal frame. Then a crew ground every weld down and polished the surface until the joins disappeared."
Hear the full story in the app — narrated and timed to play right where you're standing.
The Reveal
This stop is part of the tour’s larger story. An optional reveal at the end lets you revisit which details stayed perfectly honest and which got a little extra help.
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Hear the full story at Cloud Gate — The Bean
This is just one of 13 stops on the The Postcard Tour tour. Download the app, put in your headphones, and experience it for real.
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