Swedish studio Urban Nouveau is offering an alternative to the demolition of a 1920s bridge in Stockholm ? transform it by adding apartments and a linear park.
Urban Nouveau has designed the scheme in response to Lidingö Municipality's plans to tear down the Gamla Lidingöbron bridge, which links the Swedish capital to the island of Lidingö, and replace it with a modern structure.
Urban Nouveau proposes building apartments within the structure of the bridge
Urban Nouveau proposes turning the deck of the existing bridge into a linear park and building 50 apartments underneath, within the steel structure.
The studio has calculated that the sale of the homes would pay for the renovation of the bridge and its conversion into a "High Line-style public park". "The proposal is 100 per cent serious," Sara Göransson, CEO of Urban Nouveau, told Dezeen. "It resolves all infrastructural, technical, environmental and economical requirements. It is a fully feasible alternative to the generic bridge the municipality has decided to built."
A linear park would be placed on the bridge's deck
Completed in 1925, the Gamla Lidingöbron is a rail and pedestrian bridge across a stretch of water in the north of Stockholm.
The local municipality plans to start building a new bridge in 2019, with completion scheduled for 2021. The Gamla Lidingöbron bridge would be demolished after the new bridge becomes operational in 2022.
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