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Freeway Park, Seattle, Washington, USA, 1976 designed by Lawrence Halprin
The park bridges over Interstate 5 and a large city-owned parking lot; 8th Avenue bridges over the park. An unusual mixture of brutalist architecture and greenery, the 5.2-acre (21,000 m2) park.
The park is also a significant cultural landscape as a masterwork of a modernist master and a precedent setting park that single-handedly defined a new land-use typology for American cities. -- Wikipedia
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Southwest Corridor Park, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1987
The Southwest Corridor Park is a 4.7 mile, 52-acre, linear park stretching from the Back Bay to Forest Hills. Approximately a quarter of the parkland is decked over the railroad tracks, providing more space for grass and plantings,..
In the 1950's and 60's, plans were developed for a 12-lane highway along the railroad right of way between Boston and Rte. 128, and on into Cambridge.
After hundreds of heated meetings and protests, Governor Sargent scrapped the plans in 1969, and highway funds were used to develop mass transit, open space and recreational facilities. The new, relocated Orange Line and the adjacent Southwest Corridor Park were opened in May, 1987. -- official web site
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Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2007 designed by Weiss/Menfredi
Read an article from Architectural RecordEnvisioned as a new model for an urban sculpture park, the project is located on a industrial site at the water’s edge. The design creates a continuous constructed landscape for art, forms an uninterrupted Z-shaped “green” platform, and descends 40 feet from the city to the water, capitalizing on views of the skyline and Elliot Bay and rising over the existing infrastructure to reconnect the urban core to the revitalized waterfront. -- architect's web site
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Rose Kennedy Greenway(The Big Dig), Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2007
When these elevated highways were relocated underground, Boston found itself rich in prime urban land.Today, the Greenway encompasses gardens, plazas, and tree-lined promenades, offering beautiful places for relaxation within an urban environment. -- Greenway Conservancy
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Park Panacea over BQE Trench, Southside Williamsburg, New York, USA
A new park design is moving forward in Southside Williamsburg, thanks to a plan to cap the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) trench running through the neighborhood. Brooklyn Councilwoman Diana Reyna first proposed the idea in 2005, arguing that building a cohesive park in the area would help remedy health issues affecting local children, including asthma, obesity, and diabetes. Early last spring, Brooklyn-based dlandstudio was selected to research strategies for building atop the trench. -- The Architect's Newspaper
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| Source: usatoday.com |
Urban parks take over downtown freeways
Cities are removing the concrete barriers that freeways form through their downtowns — not by tearing them down but by shrouding them in greenery and turning them into parks and pedestrian-friendly developments.
This gray-to-green metamorphosis is underway or under consideration in major cities seeking ways to revive sections of their downtowns from Los Angeles and Dallas to St. Louis and Cincinnati. -- Haya El Nasser, USA TODAY, 5/5/2010
Does building a park over a freeway in Milwaukee make sense? -- Urban Milwaukee
Sao Paulo’s ‘Big Worm,’ an elevated highway, must go, urban planners say -- Washington Post
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Ohio highway cap at forefront of urban design trend; retail complex atop Columbus expressway offers model for Chicago
The innovative project, which opened in 2004, put Columbus at the forefront of a national trend: Covering sunken freeways with caps, decks, land bridges or lids, as they are called, and using the found space to reconnect neighborhoods that were torn apart by the national highway building binge of the 1950s and 1960s. -- Cityscape
A dream for parks over Chicago's expressway trench: Visionary, but probably a budget-buster -- Cityscape
Pedestrian Strands, Kansas City, Missouri, USA designed by el dorado, Inc.
Collaborative work between artist and architect, Pedestrian Strands is a quasi-permanent installation on four bridges in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Renovating the decks of these bridges was intended to extend the usefulness of the bridges for another ten years, after which full replacement will be required and the re-application of Pedestrian Strands reconsidered. At the insistence of the Downtown Council and the Crossroads Community Association, these renovations were to include increased attention to the pedestrian experience. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Nicolas Waltefaugle archdaily.com |
Jardin Serge Gainsbourg, Porte des Lilas, Paris, France, 2011 designed by Territoires
The need to cover the ring road at the Porte des Lilas answers to a desire expressed by people to finally be able to enjoy a proper quality of life and a friendly urban environment. Basically the population wanted an area where it would be possible to walk, have a garden, play, and find both nature and quietness. A team of urban planners and landscape architects identified, in collaboration with the neighbourhood associations, a program that would fit for this area. They defined the position and size of the garden, the position of the bus hub and the location of the circus. They also defined the principles of pedestrian routes. -- ArchDaily
Dallas Covers Highway with Greenery -- Governing
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| Source: Dillon Diers Photography archdaily.com |
Klyde Warren Park, Dallas, Texas, USA, 2011 designed by The Office of James Burnett
The 5.2-acre park creates an urban green space over the existing Woodall Rodgers Freeway between Pearl and St. Paul Streets in downtown Dallas. The Park includes a performance stage, restaurant, dog park, children’s park, great lawn, water features, Texas native gardens, shaded walking paths, an area for games and much more. Klyde Warren Park is planned to be a hub of activity with four to five events per day. Programming will be free and ranges from yoga and boot camp, to dance classes and chess tournaments, to movie nights and outdoor concerts. -- ArchDaily
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