Dans La Ville

This page contains photographs from Goldberg, Dans La Ville (On The City) by Michel Ragon, published in 1985 by the Paris Art Center.

Credited photographers include Hedrich Blessing, Gil Amiaga, Orlando R. Cabanban, Russ Carmack, Chicago Architectural Photographing Company, Larry Gordon, J. Alex Langley, Nathaniel Lieberman, Paul Markow, McShane-Fleming Studios, Rodney McCay Morgan, Rob Savage, David Urschel, Robert Ward, and Thomas Yanul.

View from northwest. Broadcast towers are installed on the roof of the west tower. The Univac division of Sperry Rand (now known as Unisys), then a manufacturer of mainframe computers, occupies commercial space at lower left.

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(Above left) View looking up at office building (now a hotel). In upper left corner, parking ramp below east residential tower. (Above right) Transition between parking levels and apartment floors.

(Below left) Above the base of the office building, a row of pillars transition to the office floors. (Below right) Theater building with west residential tower in background and east tower in foreground at left.

Looking up at residential towers (right) and office building (left) at north edge of complex. The windows of the office building are framed by structural concrete mullions that support 50 percent of the building’s floor load. The ice skating rink overlooked the Chicago River (at left). West residential tower in background. This area now has a roof and is occupied by a restaurant.
View from southeast showing Chicago River basin under the building. Above the river is the commercial floor and above that are the residential towers. Every habitable room of the residential towers has a balcony. Two residents (possibly paid models) of the west tower eat breakfast on their balcony.
(Above) Marina City architect Bertrand Goldberg in 1952 (left) with blueprints for his design of a freight car, 1960 (center) between urban planner Ira Bach and a model of Marina City, and in 1980 (right).