Tag: Bertrand Goldberg

Looking down on River City

Looking down on River City

The faint of heart home buyer might think that the only way to look at River City is down. We did that, but in a more literal way, when snapping t [...]
Points of view on Prentice Hospital

Points of view on Prentice Hospital

We don’t ordinarily write about institutional or commercial properties. We do, as a matter of course, try to bring to your attention videos that f [...]

Mies on Marina City: Don’t do that again

In the video, the Museum of Contemporary Art's Michael Darling talks briefly about the "organic" and "sculptural" quality of Bertrand Goldberg's a [...]
Divergent architectural styles book-end Divergent set

Divergent architectural styles book-end Divergent set

One of the sets for Neil Burger's adaptation of Divergent, a sci-fi flick starring Shailene Woodley and Kate Winslet, is appropriately sandwiched [...]
Night and day at Helmut Jahn’s 600 North Fairbanks

Night and day at Helmut Jahn’s 600 North Fairbanks

Chicago Magazine's Dennis Rodkin recently visited 600 North Fairbanks in Streeterville for a tour of a 40th floor southwest corner condo. The unit [...]
Chicago’s architectural candy store turns 50

Chicago’s architectural candy store turns 50

Bertrand Goldberg's son Geoffrey, in a presentation he made two years ago on the 50th anniversary of its groundbreaking, deemed Marina City "an ar [...]
Why we haven’t written about Prentice

Why we haven’t written about Prentice

The heated controversy over the preservation of Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital in Streeterville is near an endgame following yester [...]
Fifty years of Marina City

Fifty years of Marina City

This is the 50th anniversary of the official, shiny-shovel groundbreaking ceremony for Marina City, Bertrand Goldberg's iconic city-within-a-city [...]
River City, a community for children

River City, a community for children

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 p [...]
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