Marina City

Marina City is a mixed-use complex on State Street along the Chicago River, across from the Loop, designed by Bertrand Goldberg as a “city within a city” to help draw residents back downtown after the war. Conceived in 1959 and built in the 1960s with major union financing, it combined housing with parking, shops, recreation, entertainment, and a marina. Its twin round towers became famous for their corncob-like form, record-setting height, innovative concrete construction, spiral parking floors, and balcony-ringed apartments. Widely credited as a pioneering postwar urban residential complex, it became an influential model for downtown living and a lasting Chicago icon.

Chicago, Illinois · United States