River City II

River City II is revealing as it shows the ability of the firm to adapt their designs in order to get something built. The idea for River City, which began in the late 1960s as a radical proposal for a number of high-rise residential towers, was gently revised into a scheme with a single tower, a conical shopping center, and a snake-like mid-rise housing block.

The mid-rise housing was a monolithic concrete complex containing 446 residences, including one and two bedroom apartments, two and three bedroom town homes, and three and four bedroom penthouses. The curvilinear structure, eight to fifteen stories in height, featured a private interior passageway called "the River Road," which was a skylighted atrium for tenant use modeled after European streetscapes. The towers containing the living units were constructed over a four-story base that contained 250,000 square feet of offices, shopping, a conference center, restaurants, a health-club, educational centers, and a seventy boat marina. Plans for the single-tower, conical shopping center, expanded Marina and additional parking were never realized.