Green visions for flyover

ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTS FOR CONCRETE CARRIAGEWAY

- By DANIEL HOLLAND

BOLD designs reimagining the condemned Gateshead Flyover as a green landmark running through the heart of the town have been unveiled.

Newcastle University's Farrell Centre launched a competition earlier this year which invited ideas for how the concrete carriageway, which was closed six months ago due to structural concerns, could be repurposed.

Gateshead Council plans to knock down the A167 flyover and hopes that its removal could pave the way for a wider regeneration of the surrounding town centre.

But alternative concepts have illustrated how the 1960s-built flyover could look if it was saved from demolition.