Completed in 1931, the neighborhood, with its quiet park, futuristic street lamps and cantilevered balconies, wasn't a success at first.
Also slated for renovation this year is New Arbat Street, a 1960s-built concrete artery that cuts through what were once quaint low-rise alleyways to create what was meant to be the most modern and futuristic street in the Soviet Union.
Mr. Bialobrzeski was strongly influenced by the 1982 sci-fi film "Blade Runner," set in a futuristic Los Angeles where street life has splintered and surly crowds push past the jumbled remains of modern technology.
The city's modern public transportation system – a combination of soaring skytrains (BTS) and underground subways (MRT) – has transformed the bustling city centre into a futuristic warren of street-level sidewalks, skywalks (elevated sidewalks) and skytrains.
But at the end of the street, a futuristic casino overlooks a huge fountain featuring Neptune and a group of fembot mermaids, water spurting from their porn-star breasts.
Yes, weirdness still absolutely exists in rap (Future, Young Thug et al) and R&B has its one-offs (FKA twigs), but Missy's mix of street culture, futuristic imagery and off-kilter production still sound and feel like no one else.
Their machine art — the kind that can both inspire and kill you — isn't only meant to play a part in big public events, but depends on the public to make it magical, like a futuristic carnival taken to the streets.
Ms. Veleko's street dandies look futuristic enough.
G-Police Developed by Pysgnosis, who went on to become the now sadly defunct Sony Liverpool, G-Police is a Blade Runner inspired shooter that sees you trying to take control of the street of a futuristic megalopolis from your space-age helicopter.
On the other side of Zion Square, the new, futuristic tram slid down Jaffa Street with joyful cling-clangs.
