01. Marina City Detroit, Detroit, MI. Rendering, n.d.
1962-1967.

Proposed for a waterfront in downtown Detroit, Marina City Detroit was intended to include upwards of 10,000 residential units in a series of high rise towers. Parking was to be included on the lower floors of the towers, along with adjacent commercial spaces and offices. Marina City Detroit's scale and ambition mark it as the logical successor to the original Marina City and its "24-hour Living" as well as the most significant predecessor to River City and its plan for an entire "City within a City." Unfortunately, the FHA refused to "recognize that Detroit could return to its [previous] importance as a city central to the [region's manufacturing industry]" and the project was cancelled.

"Architecture for Urbanism: Selections from the Bertrand Goldberg Archive," Case 6, Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, November 1, 2011–January 2, 2012

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