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Without, morning: A snowy downtown square on a bright winter morning, seen from above: the snow melted in one warm circle of pale paving with steaming fountains, market stalls and people, a glowing glass oculus at its centre, and a pale stone pavilion with a tall gold doorway at its edge.
Within: A bath hall under a shallow pale stone vault, lit by daylight through a round glass oculus with snow on it, with terraced warm pools, bathers, steam and ferns, and the hall of the machines glowing amber beyond a glass wall.
Imagined with AI

The City Works · address 02 of 07 · Morning, 9:40 AM

The Square

A square where the snow never settles.

A square where the snow never settles.

Imagined with AI · a proposal, not a planned project

The hour

Morning, and after dark

The same spot, twice. Take hold of the line and change the hour.

After dark: The same square at night: the warm circle lit by the glowing oculus and strings of lanterns, fountains steaming, people out in the cold, snow glowing on every roof.
MorningAfter dark

Imagined with AI · a proposal, not a planned project

Today

The same ground, built right

A public square, and the ground beneath it, as it is now, and as it could be. Pull today aside.

Today: The same square as it is now: a snow-covered parking lot full of cars, a plain gray utility building and a chain-link fence, under an overcast sky.
TodayBuilt right

Imagined with AI · a proposal, not a planned projectThe same camera, twice.

The wall label

Pale stone and glass · 60 MW · beneath a public square

The machines take no ground at all: their halls lie beneath a public square, and the square's paving is where the warmth goes first. The snow melts in a circle, the fountains run all winter, and a round glass oculus in the paving looks down into the baths below, where the same warmth keeps the water at bathing heat and daylight falls through the snow.

The square, dry and warm all winter, and the baths beneath it.

Imagined with AI · a proposal, not a planned project. The ground and the megawatts are the proposal’s own.

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