As you walk west along the river, you will see the two corncob-like 65-story residential structures called Marina City. Designed by architects Bertrand Goldberg Associates, Marina City was incredibly innovative when completed in 1964. Truly a city within a city, it had 896 apartments (now condos), an office building (now a hotel), a theater (now the House of Blues), and a working marina at river level. Marina City achieved landmark status in 2015.

Bertrand Goldberg was a student of modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. In Marina City, Goldberg blended modernist themes with elements in nature, comparing the wedge-shaped apartments in the residential towers to petals on a sunflower.

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