high-rise building
This slide shows the building under construction in 1962. The 580 ft high building consist of tall slender central tube cores in concrete. The floors are circular concrete disks supported both on the core and on the outside columns.
The first 18 stories of each tower consist of continuously rising circular slabs for parking. The remaining 62 stories consist of pie-shaped apartments with cantilevered balconies which give the towers a scalloped form.
Marina City
building type
involved parties
address
- United States of America
- Staat
- Illinois
- state
- Cook County
- county
- Chicago
- city
- 300 N State Street
- street
map/aerial view
time line
| period | description |
|---|---|
| 1959–1964 | planning and construction period |
description
Wikipedia article
keywords
reference
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article in: Großwohneinheiten
S. Macetti
Verlag für Bauwesen VEB; 1967
page 94–97
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article in: Wohnhochhäuser, Band 1
H.-P. Schmiedel
Verlag für Bauwesen VEB; 1966
page 206–209
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article in: Chicago
S. Visalli, B. Kurtis
Kohlhammer; 1992
page 106–107
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article in: The Structural Architecture of Chicago
M. Bunji
Books Nippan; 1992
page 72–73
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article in: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen, 12/1991
page 22–29
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Marina City, die »Stadt in der Stadt«
in: db, 9/1962
K.-H. Steinicke
page 661–663
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