And at the centre of their radical plan for the new capital are “hatcheries”, for the controlled scientific reproduction of human beings.
Evans says he enjoyed the freedom of designing something that would never actually have to be built.
We had to find an idea of the future, but one that had come from the past.”
Finding a coherent look for the city of the future proved intense work for the team at Studio Evans Lane – and no less so because it was all being done for a new version of Aldous Huxley’s disturbing classic novel Brave New World.