Marina City - Chicago
The world's first and most comprehensive record of Chicago landmark Marina City. News, history, images, video, floor plans, building facts, fun facts, directory of commercial tenants, listings of units for sale and rent, recent unit sales, building permits, recent police incidents, and more.
Marina City - History - Stories
To understand how Marina City and all of Chicago’s unique architecture took shape, we have to be familiar with the most significant event in Chicago architecture – the time the city was almost destroyed. October 8, 1871. 01-Jun-14. Slowing the suburban exodus.
Marina City - Building Facts
Marina City. Other names: Marina Towers. Status: Completed. Country: United States. City: Chicago. Street address: 300-350 North State Street, 315-339 North Dearborn Street. Building function: Mixed use, residential and commercial. Structural material: Concrete. Year proposed: 1959. Year construction started: 1960. Year construction ended: 1968 ...
About Marina City & marinacity.org
marinacity.org is the world’s first and most comprehensive record of Chicago landmark Marina City. It is a service of Loop North (formerly Marina City Online), a news and information website serving the Loop and Near North neighborhoods of downtown Chicago.
Marina City - History - Introduction
Built on unused railroad property in the early 1960s at a cost of what today would be $288 million, Marina City is a Chicago icon and an international celebrity. It was the first mixed-use complex in the United States to include housing and businesses.
Marina City - Floor Plans & Maps
Explore the floor plans and maps of the iconic Marina City in Chicago.
Marina City - History - Dates
The Biography of Chicago s Marina City. Bertrand Goldberg Associates produces a two-page typed manuscript, Marina City The Central City Plan, that dares people to invest in Chicago s center. Marina City rental office robbed by well-dressed men …
Marina City - History - Bertrand Goldberg, architect
In the 1950s, when there was widespread pessimism about the future of cities as places to live, Mr. Goldberg posed a vital alternative with the five-building Marina City complex.”. Bertrand Goldberg was born in Chicago on July 17, 1913, and grew up in the Hyde Park neighborhood.
Marina City - History - Images
Oct 23, 2019 · Marina City in detailed scale model of Chicago on display at Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Chicago Model City (13-Jun-09). Closer view of Marina City with 330 North Wabash at left. Photo by Steven Dahlman.
Marina City - History - Marina City: The Brochure
Dec 20, 2014 · “A unique architectural setting for 24-hour-a-day living, working and recreation in a ‘city within a city’ in downtown Chicago.” In January 1966, Marina Management Corporation, property manager of the entire complex, printed a brochure about Marina City that it sold to the public for 25 cents.