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Without, noon: A street in a brick industrial district at noon in winter: a railway viaduct whose arches are filled with pale stone and warm glass, a long glasshouse promenade green with trees running along its top, people on a wide stair, and a tall gold doorway under the nearest arch.
Within: A long garden walk under a ridge of glass on top of the viaduct: trees, ferns, a stream, people strolling and sitting at cafe tables, snowy rooftops through the glass on both sides.
Imagined with AI

The City Works · address 03 of 07 · Noon, 12:15 PM

The Viaduct

A mile of glass over the streets.

A mile of glass over the streets.

Imagined with AI · a proposal, not a planned project

The hour

Noon, and after dark

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

After dark: The same street at night: the mile of glass along the viaduct glowing warm gold over the city, the arches lit from within, snow under the streetlights.
NoonAfter dark

Imagined with AI · a proposal, not a planned project

Today

The same ground, built right

A disused railway viaduct, as it is now, and as it could be. Pull today aside.

Today: The same street as it is now: a derelict brick viaduct with weeds on top, its arches bricked up or fenced, graffiti, a gray windowless box beside it, dirty snow, under an overcast sky.
TodayBuilt right

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

The wall label

Brick, pale stone and glass · 60 MW · a railway viaduct nobody used

Every city has a viaduct nobody uses. Here its arches are filled, the machines in every other one behind pale stone and the neighborhood's warm rooms in the rest, and along its top, where the tracks were, a glasshouse promenade runs a mile through the district. Warm from end to end, it is the longest garden in the city, with the rooftops on both sides.

The promenade: the longest garden in the city, warm from end to end.

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

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