Castles in the sky

Funny.  When I was maybe ten years old or so I remember drawing and thinking about freeways being converted into apartments and parks.  This beginning may explain the orgin behind my freeway project series.  As for castles in the sky it seems I wasn't the only one.  

"The Bay Line, a proposed retrofit of the Bay Bridge's eastern span with a park and housing, has become a sleeper hit in the blogosphere, and now even has its own website. The thought experiment was initially put together by Oakland's Rael San Fratello Architects and submitted as an entry to WPA 2.0, a public works design competition put on by a UCLA think tank. The idea: what if, after the eastern span gets replaced, we kept it around and used it for something instead of getting rid of it? And what if we, say, loaded it up with 7,000 homes? Thought-provoking! But the Bay Line didn't make the final cut at WPA 2.0, while another Rael San Fratello proposal did: the U.S./Mexico border project, which includes seesaws among its varying delights."

http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2009/10/30/seriouser_and_seriouser_the_bay_line_condos_on_the_bay_bridge.php