Also on my walk on Monday night. Looked down and saw this. This was a federal program that was disolved in 1989 after the Savings and Loan scandal on turn 1980s. I was struck by the juxtaposition of the perminence of the stone and brass sign in the concrete and the fleeting nature of politics more generally.
Was on my way home on Monday and decided to stop in the Loop to go to a stationary shop. As I was exiting the Monroe Blue Line, I saw a sign with an arrow that said "Chicago Chagall." I went upstairs and found this beautiful Chagall in front of the Chase building. One of the special things about Chicago is the presence of a lot of public art from very famous artists.
Since the temporary ferry terminal walkway went down last week I've been checking in on this one former support column, because:
This is the last standing piece of the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
That's why it's where it is and why the new lanes bend around it but in a way that is clearly temporary. The asphalt sections will become large planters once that last viaduct piece goes down and they can relocate the lanes to their final intended locations.
And now that the new overhead walkway is open, they'll actually be able to do that soon.
If they ever need to take the old viaduct out of storage in the Battery Street Tunnel and put it back together it'll be missing a piece xD
US architecture firm Inform Studio and Buro Happold designed a curved and stepped wood-covered pedestrian bridge to link two parks in Providence, Rhode Island.
To make this happen they removed the I-195 highway from downtown. The bridge was floated 12 miles into place.
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