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Chicago Magazine’s Dennis Rodkin recently visited 600 North Fairbanks in Streeterville for a tour of a 40th floor southwest corner condo. The unit is scheduled to hit the market shortly, and will reportedly be listed at $1,575,000 with Prudential Rubloff’s Francesca Rose. Rodkin toured the unit in the evening, and the night views of the ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 20, 2013
Bertrand Goldberg‘s son Geoffrey, in a presentation he made two years ago on the 50th anniversary of its groundbreaking, deemed Marina City “an architectural candy store.” In the video Goldberg outlines a few of the building’s many planning, architectural, engineering and construction innovations. You can see more of Marina City’s construction in the following videos. ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 8, 2012
The heated controversy over the preservation of Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital in Streeterville is near an endgame following yesterday’s decision by the Commission on Chicago Landmarks. We have not, until now, written a word about the dispute over the building’s future. The reasons are simple: our focus is on residential projects; every other media ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 2, 2012
This is the 50th anniversary of the official, shiny-shovel groundbreaking ceremony for Marina City, Bertrand Goldberg’s iconic city-within-a-city on the Chicago River. To commemorate the occasion, the guys at MarinaCityOnline.com uploaded this short film from 1965 to their YouTube channel. In it, WGN radio announcer Walt Newton describes the project’s planning and construction. To learn ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on November 22, 2010
River City’s seen better days. The building’s teeming with foreclosures and short sales — the median price of a condo right now is $125,000, with price of one one-bedroom reaching as low as $74,000 — and last week’s rains “virtually destroyed all the electrical equipment” and flooded its garage and ground floor. It’s a sorry ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on August 4, 2010
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