Fourth Presbyterian Church (Chicago) was founded in 1871 and moved to its existing location on Michigan Avenue in 1912. Flyhouse provided assistance on a project that put the church in the local record books.
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30 Seconds in the Shop [Tao-line Project]
When you have a project to test, you call in the staff circus arts expert to test it. Today with 30 Seconds in the Shop, we hoist up our latest project and spin it around.
Did You Know…
As part of a year-long sculpture installation piece at Garfield Park Conservatory entitled “solarise: a sea of all colors,” Flyhouse installed “Floresence” in the Conservatory’s Show House. The installation runs through September 22, 2016.
Uniqlo Lighting Hoist System
Uniqlo is a Japanese casual fashion retailer with an avid following. Being new to Chicago, Uniqlo opened a 60,000-square-foot, three-level store on Chicago’s famed Michigan Avenue in the fall of 2015; the largest of other U.S. locations except for the flagship Fifth Avenue store in New York. For the new store, Uniqlo looked to install five ceiling light […]
30 Seconds in the Shop (Aloft)
Flyhouse is taking 30 Seconds in the Shop on the road this week to a project we have been working on. When a 109-year-old church becomes the new performance space for an aerial and circus arts training facility, Flyhouse got the call to produce a brand new rigging grid system. Flyhouse has worked with Aloft Loft and Aloft Circus […]
[Project Recap] Southeast Area Elementary School Dead Hung Line Set
Southeast Area Elementary is a new school in the southeastern section of Chicago. The three-story, 110,000 square foot building is able to house 1,200 students with 44 classrooms to accommodate them. As part of the new construction, a stage and theater area was designed on one-half of a gymnasium, where performances and other events were able to take […]