All this is located on a platform beside the river. It also includes a saddle-shaped building that houses an auditorium, and mid-rise building containing a hotel. The complex consists of two tall towers in the form of corncob, 65 floors each, with five lifts and a penthouse at 179 meters. Their type of residence with parking provided the template split urban development in many cities internationally.

Marina City was the first residential high at United States after the Second World War and is credited as being responsible to reinvigorate residential projects within cities. The design, a complex of several buildings along the river in the city of Chicago, was called Marina City.

The architect Bertrand Goldberg, who believed in the economic and cultural life of city centers, were planning a project that allowed people to live and work in the center. After the Second World War millions of Americans began to move their place of residence in the cities to the suburbs.