“Cities of the Future” was sponsored by the History Channel, here in Atlanta this year. Washington DC and San Francisco were also featured. The competition encourages architect’s utopian visions of how our cities may be formed in the next hundred years.
Many, many of my past/present/and future studio professors were involved. Some through the official Georgia Tech team and others through their own firms. The point was to visually describe a futuristic scenario for Atlanta’s growth exactly one hundred years from today, hopefully while creating a building typology to rival that of the ancients (hence, the competition being sponsored by the History channel). A lot of students participated too, several friends of mine, mostly second year grads. During this same time frame however, I was working on the Urban Land Institute’s graduate level urban design competition. So I took merely an hour to sneak away from that prep to take some photos of my current studio professor’s entry. They named it “UberAtlanta” haha. Gotta love the Dutch.
Here’s the slightly more mainstream entry from what turned out to be Atlanta’s winners. They will go on to compete against the winners from DC and Sanny Franny.
More pictures on Flickr.
