Reimagining Brooklyn Bridge

​What luck! Imagine our surprise when, perusing John Roebling’s archives, we came across an undated elevation drawing* of one of the East River Bridge’s towers showing not two but three bays! Could the iconic Brooklyn Bridge have been constructed incompletely? And how strange that Roebling drew the third bay in an unfinished state, without cladding; a scaffold, as if perhaps it was always intended to be an impermanent addition, an apparition, a shadow... (*some artistic license taken)