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07.25.08

City of the Future

Architects imagine what San Francisco might look like in 2108 (hint, we finally get those flying cars)

By Dawn Stover Posted 02.20.2008 at 3:54 pm 0 Comments

What will San Francisco look like 100 years from now? According to the winning entry in a "city of the future" contest, residents will live in a forest of sinuous towers.

IwamotoScott Architecture took home the $10,000 prize for its "Hydro-Net" design, which also envisions an underground web of carbon-nanotube-walled tunnels where people travel in hydrogen-fueled hover-cars.

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