Looking out across the city and at the top of the skyscrapers, you can see farm animals eating grass with sanctification on high-rise urban farms in the London skyline. Elsewhere, off the coast of mainland England, against the backdrop of the impressive White Cliffs of Dover, a wonderful pod(吊舱) structure forms part of a floating city. This is how we will live 100 years from now — if some UK experts is to be believed.

      Temporary housing pods, underwater cities and 3D-printed houses will also help alleviate the burden of overpopulation and inner city living-space shortages. Buildings with their own microclimates and cities built in the skies are also among the amazing works of future engineering predicted by the experts.

  But not only will tomorrow’s architects continue to advance towards the clouds, building higher and higher, as engineering advances allow, but we’ll also be headed deep below ground. The experts suggested future cities will feature incredible multi-level basement structures—already beginning to make an impact in high-density(高密度的) areas like London — which will help ease a lack of urban space above ground.

      Meanwhile, the future will feature city-spanning(跨越城市的) bridges, according to the experts. Want to travel over to Mars quickly? No problem — the experts are predicting spaceports will become commonplace, so future generations will be able to head over to their local station and get on the next ride.

   The predictions — heavily focused on water-based architecture and contemporary issues such as overpopulation, global warming and rising sea levels — were worked out to mark the launch of “Impossible Engineering”.

      Using the future tech predictions, 2,000 people were then surveyed to see which of the suggestions they thought — and hoped — would become a reality by 2115. Topping the survey was super-deep basement buildings complete with hotels, restaurants, submerged gardens and green space, swimming pools and gyms. The survey also found that one in three respondents considered floating sea cities — which could use solar and tidal energy—as a choice for future development.