When Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa got his first glimpse at a design for a future Los Angeles Tuesday, he turned anxiously to philanthropist and political benefactor Eli Broad.
"I want to live another hundred years!" Villaraigosa exclaimed as architects and onlookers crowded into the pavilion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
A smiling Broad patted the mayor on his back, leaned over and whispered to him.
"I can only look 20 years ahead," the 73-year-old Broad had joked minutes earlier. "But I'm thrilled at what I see for the future."
Various glimpses of the city's future were on display all day as eight architectural teams submitted designs of 22nd century Los Angeles for a $10,000 first prize in the History Channel's "City of the Future" competition.