A proposal to enclose the Northern Avenue Bridge and turn it into a year-round botanical garden was among the top entrants in a competition to help the city figure out what to do with the bridge after it's floated to East Boston and repaired.
Other finalists included a proposal to use biology and wildlife to help the bridge gracefully decay while creating an urban landscape; turn it into a park; and create an elevated civic space and iconic community destination.
Whatever the city finally does to re-open a span next to the Moakley Bridge, it says it will include lanes for cars.
All the winning entries (including essays).