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The privately funded pavilion, one of two temporary structures commissioned to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1909 Plan of Chicago, also known as the Burnham Plan, was supposed to open to the public June 19 and run for four and a half weeks. The London-based architect’s plan calls for an organically inspired, elliptical structure to be constructed of more than 7,000 aluminum supports covered with a fabric skin. The new contractor, Fabric Images, replaces TenFab Design, which was unable to finish the pavilion by mid-July, as organizers had hoped. Fabric’s contract calls for completion by Aug. 1, and it has to finish the aluminum framework as well as make and install the fabric that will create the pavilion's exterior and interior walls. Meanwhile, the second pavilion, designed by Amsterdam architect Ben van Berkel, opened on schedule June 19.

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