Marina City

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ISBN: 9781568988634
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Softcover, 176 pages
19,1 x 25,4 cm
black & white
June 2010
€26,60 (excl. VAT)

Marina City

Bertrand Goldberg's Urban Vision

Igor Marjanovic, Katerina Rüedi Ray

The first history of Marina City, a Chicago icon. Authors Igor Marjanovic and Katerina Rüedi Ray present newly available archive photographs and drawings in lively essays that explore not only the building’s architectural achievements, but also the ingenious marketing campaign and complex network of political partnerships necessary to realize architect Bertrand Goldberg’s vision.

Marina City offered residents a self-contained world that included a theater, restaurant, bowling alley, health club, ice-skating rink, grocery store, bank and parking garage; before it was finished 2,500 applications had been submitted to rent 896 apartments. The culmination of 30 years of thought and development, Marina City became an instantaneous icon that made Bertrand Goldberg the first Chicago architect to achieve superstar status with one project. From the financing to the structural engineering, this one-of-kind volume fills in missing chapters of modern architecture, urban politics, and labor history.