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As longtime residents themselves, the leaders of MAS Studio have become the de facto renovators of these unique apartments, ...
Marina City under construction, January 29, 1962 Photo: Chicago Tribune Archive After the buildings were finished the next year, the Sun-Times reported that they "caught the city by surprise." ...
Chicago suddenly faces another sensitive architectural landmark problem, but cannot solve it by employing its world-famous technique of tearing down the building. The visual integrity of Marina ...
Marina City, a Chicago symbol and architectural landmark whose corncob towers adorn many a tourist`s snapshots, is becoming a seedy, crumbling wreck, overwhelmed by so many problems that any near ...
Though Marina City doesn’t dominate the Chicago skyline like it did in 1964, it paved the way for the transition of the north riverfront from an industrial no man’s land to a high-density ...
One of Chicago's most famous architectural works, Marina City, is poised to become its newest landmark. The Commission on Chicago Landmarks on July 9 is set to consider a proposal to assign ...
The bulk of units in Marina City sell for less than $300,000 — a bargain considering the towers' downtown location and proximity to the Chicago River. Here’s a look at what’s for sale in the ...
Marina City stands high above the Chicago River, on a full city block between Dearborn and State streets. Groundbreaking for the building was held on Nov. 22, 1960.
The Marina City portion includes 146,000 square feet of dining, entertainment and experiential retail venues and two 450-stall parking garages that serve the landmark towers.
The Marina City Towers, called the “symbol of new Chicago” in a 1963 Sun-Times story, were designed as a mixed-use complex by architect Bertrand Goldberg in the early 1960s.
We are not living “in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, where only one official version of the truth is permitted,” but a local architectural blogger claims his condo board is confused about that.
It’s very much Marina City and when you come into that space, you know where you are.” Legal Sea Foods , 315 N Dearborn Street (entrance off State St. Bridge, next to Smith & Wollensky).