Bertrand Goldberg trained at the Bauhaus. Then he moved on.
Since the Sixties, Bertrand Goldberg’s Marina City Towers have been an iconic part of Chicago’s skyline. Millions of readers, moviegoers, and TV-watchers know the twin buildings mean “Chicago”, even when they don’t have a clue what the towers are or how they came to be. Conceived as a “city within a city”, the Marina Towers complex has been through four distinct stages in its history: Promise, acclaim, disrepute, and renaissance.
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