Projecting A Bleak Future For Washington D.C.

"For three hours yesterday, eight teams of architects and designers, armed with scissors, cardboard, plexiglass, plywood, glue, tape, pushpins and jumbo containers of coffee, raised imaginary Washingtons of the future."

"The teams, from architectural and design firms and universities near the Washington area and New York City, had been given seven days to come up with visions of Washington 100 years hence, and had from 9 a.m. until noon to assemble their models inside the station."

"Missing was the sense of limitless possibilities. Many hinted at a dire future plagued by pollution, shortages of water, goods and energy and the prospect of catastrophe. The future seemed a place for those who might survive the present."