When a construction project has too much concrete, and the pourers have to pay to dispose of it. It is cheaper to just give it to people who can put it to good use.
Shoe chutes make great slides,
Airplanes can stay in the air,
Shredded parachutes can totally change a cieling,
How about a fire truck?
A school bus?
Is there room for an old ferris wheel?
There are still several floors of the building that are not being used. The adjoining building is also doing little more than acting as storage for the museum's strange collections. All urban explorers that visit St. Louis hope to make it into the hat room--Millions of Hats!
Some of the space in the city museum building that people do not see regularly is filled with expensive lofts designed by Bob Cassilly himself. Who wouldn't want to live in such a space?
Like most people, I'd love to see the City Museum grow like a cancer across several blocks consuming and repurposing things left and right. I'd love to see Metro retire their buses and trains to the City Museum as they are phased out. Imagine a train on the side of the building acting as an elevator shaft. Imagine a stair case made out of bus seats. They could be stacked up and fused together into larger super structures serving as apartments and office spaces. Maybe we could put some retired Amtrak dining cars back in service.
In London, there's a group called Village Underground that has managed to put a few retired 'carriages' from the London Underground onto the top of a building to provide cheap studio space. What urban artist wouldn't want to work in such a place?
The ideas that inspired this are hardly that different from the St. Louis City Museum. Granted, Cassilly started with wanting to build a giant aquarium..., but the recycling of urban structures into usable space is still a great venture. Enjoy this video,
Also, consider the uses of subway cars as churches and mobile homes as hotel rooms.
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