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Futuristic ‘Flooded London’ Gets On Swimmingly

From I Am Legend to Cloverfield, it seems like people love to imagine the apocalypse jumping off in New York. So we were a little relieved to see somebody else’s hometown get it in a new exhibit called “Flooded London.”

As part of the London Festival of Architecture 2008, British design studio Squint/Opera has done a series of digital renderings of London in the year 2090, after the effects of global warming have flooded the streets. In fact, the London of 2090 that they imagine is so far removed from the flood that citizens have learned to cope: a fat dude prepares to dive from a ledge in St. Paul’s Cathedral, and a couple of office workers fish off their multi-story building. Looks like global warming could be fun! Check more images from the exhibit after the jump.