Get in a time machine, and go pick up someone from 100 years ago, 500 years ago, or even further down the path of time, and bring them back to today (whenever you’re reading this). Now, go for a stroll in any major metropolis and you are guaranteed to blow their minds with the futuristic change in surroundings. With all the unbelievable feats of architecture we have today, it’s excitingly unfathomable to consider what reality might await us down the road. Enter Dutch architects NL, who presented a series of what-if images in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Admittedly, these images aren’t of buildings, but rather, they are of general land and cityscapes. I particularly like the matel-esque loop on the highway, the floating paradise on the aircraft carrier and 18 pairs of twin towers sprouting up from the trees, that seem to go as far as the eyes can see. The ultimate favorite is “trashberg”, an immense archipelago of trash that’s the size of Spain, France and Italy combined.
