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Despite its diminished proportions, River City drew high praise and was hailed by the New York Times as “a remarkable space, unusually lyrical and soft in feeling for a structure finished in harsh concrete.” Status Currently Off View Department Architecture and Design Artist Bertrand Goldberg (Architect) Title River City, Aerial Perspective Origin Chicago Date Designed 1979 Medium Ink and graphite on tracing paper Dimensions 45.6 × 57.9 cm (18 × 22 13/16 in.) Credit Line The Archive of Bertrand Goldberg, gifted by his children through his estate Reference Number RX23664/110.279 Extended information about this artwork
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Although the full scope of River City was never realized, a scaled-back version was built in 1987. Six clusters of seventy-two-story buildings, featuring the architect’s now trademark curvilinear concrete shell construction and cantilevered balconies, would wind a serpentine path along the river’s edge. Believing that architecture should address the needs of the many, Goldberg envisioned River City as a self-sufficient environment that would foster a sense of community. Conceived as part of a huge marina along the south branch of the Chicago River, the development was to consist of a vast complex of linked towers housing thousands of residents. Two decades later, Goldberg made plans for the even more ambitious River City. He is best known for Chicago’s Marina Towers, America’s first mixed-use urban-housing complex, which he completed in 1967. The next year, he returned home and worked at various Chicago firms until he founded his own practice in 1937. In 1932 eighteen-year-old Bertrand Goldberg left his native Chicago to study at the Bauhaus in Germany, becoming one of the first Americans to work under the guidance of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.