hopePlate 635 · Chicago, United States

Marina City

Corn cobs of apartments over a river, a city living in round towers of parking and life.

1967 · Bertrand Goldberg · North America

The chamber score

First Construction (in Metal)

John Cage · 1939

Percussion as a façade.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Goldberg's mixed-use towers, a radical vision of downtown living.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Marina City through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Marina City was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.