From Sandy James: “While we are taking down the viaducts, this interesting proposal is circulating in Seattle.”
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“It’s probably the most expensive piece of dirt between Vancouver and San Francisco,” says Chris Patano, director of Patano Studio Architecture. “And we’re using it to drive cars on.”
That dirt is Interstate 5, a steep, noisy canyon that divides some of the city’s fastest developing neighborhoods. Patano and his studio want to knit Seattle back together by capping the freeway with a two-mile-long, 45-acre park.
They call their proposal Seattle C.A.P. It’s a High Line for an existing transit corridor, a central park for a city with few grand public gathering places. And Patano thinks, ambitious as it sounds, that it could actually happen.
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