GEORGIA STREET VIADUCTS
TYPE: COMPETITION PROPOSAL
YEAR: 2015
In 2015, Vancouver City Council voted to demolish the Viaducts. These pieces of transportation infrastructure are the only remnants of a planned freeway system that was famously blocked by citizens, making Vancouver the only major city in North America not served by a freeway. But the zones under and around the freeway offer a diversity of public spaces not seen in the manicured green zones endemic to every other park in the city.
THIS PROPOSAL AIMED TO RETAIN PIECES OF THE VIADUCTS THAT SHELTER SOME OF THE SPACES (LIKE THE SKATEPARK) WHILE CREATING OTHER TYPOLOGIES NOT CURRENTLY PART OF THE CITY’S PUBLIC SPACE INVENTORY.
Spaces that are dank, mysterious, and surprising.
