Inspiration! (in progress...)

NYC's High Line began as a piece of heavy industrial infrastructure cutting through the city.

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The High Line after Adaptive Reuse: an elevated landscape.

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Seattle's Gasworks Park began as a defunct wasteland.

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Gasworks Park is now a popular and unique destination for locals and tourists alike.

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This concrete plant had fallen into disrepair when the Bronx River Alliance took on the revitalization project.

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Concrete Plant Park today - looking good!

Right across the Creek, The Granville Island Silos were once a barren wall of concrete. Removal was not an option.

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"Every city needs art, and art has to be in the middle of the people." Gustavo and Otávio Pandolfo were commissioned by the Vancouver Biennale to reimagine the structures as giant characters.

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The SS Howard L. Shaw was a Great Lakes freighter that operated from 1900-1969, after which it was sold to the Toronto Harbor.

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The design for Ontario Place (1971) was ambitious - a complex of artificial islands and steel-and-glass "pods" that appear to float above the lake. The site needed to be protected to make construction possible, so the designers found an ingenious solution: Three large freighters, including the Shaw, were sunk to create a permanent breakwater - with pedestrian access on top!

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