*cough cough*

[unixronin]

So, it seems the History Channel held a "City of the Future" contest, challenging eight architectural firms to show their visions of the San Francisco of 2108.  C|Net has a pictorial.

I can't remember the last time I saw such pretentious pie-in-the-sky "and then magic happens" bullshit posing as architectural design.  I think the winning design firm thought they were supposed to be submitting concepts for an SF movie set in the San Francisco of 3108 AD.  It'd sure make me think twice about hiring them to design anything for me.

Comments

[jilara.livejournal.com]

They might as well have used the San Francisco that sits next to Starfleet HQ. More practical, less drug-induced. (The first one has a strangely Dali-esque feel, which is definitely a out of a "summer of love" SF hallucination...)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I suspect the San Francisco of 2108 will owe a lot more to WIlliam Gibson and Bruce Sterling than to ... um ... Timothy Leary and Dr. Seuss?