This January, The History Channel (an American cable television channel) initiated a design and engineering competition called “City of the future”. Together with sponsors Infiniti and IBM architects and designers from all over the United States were challenged to compete in City of the Future competitions in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Atlanta.

In each city, eight teams took part in the competition vying for the $10,000 Grand Prize and City of the Future title. Teams only had one week to envision what their city might look like in 2108, a mere 3 hours to construct their models, and just 15 minutes to present their vision to a panel of five esteemed judges.

The competition is part of a larger nationwide program that includes three showdowns: Washington D.C, San Francisco and Atlanta. The first place award for San Francisco was given to IwamotoScott for their "NorCal Megaregion" submission, which addressed water and energy collection and distribution issues. Winning teams from the local contests will advance to the national face-off, which will ultimately be decided by an online vote. The entire affair will be broadcast by the History Channel in late February.

You can have a look on Washington’s, San Francisco’s and Atlanta’s regional winner.

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