Corey Danaher builds AI cities with Midjourney, Adobe, Luma AI

Corey Danaher's work sits at the meeting point of futurism and digital design. As a British futurist and 3D spatial designer, he builds speculative environments — towering skyscrapers, sprawling transit corridors, elaborate megastructures — that mix a sense of history with futuristic imagination. The reference to OMA's redesign of Taipei's towers, cited as another ambitious project, places his imagery in the wider conversation about urban renewal.

What distinguishes his process is the toolchain. Rather than relying on conventional rendering alone, he pulls together generative tools such as Midjourney, Adobe, and Luma AI, then adds animation and post-production to turn stills into short cinematic sequences. That combination is what allows a static architectural concept to read as a glimpse of a possible future rather than a single frozen image.

The stakes here are mostly about influence rather than construction. These are speculative environments, not buildings on a site, so the question is whether this AI-and-cinematic style becomes a common way to pitch urban ideas to planners and the public — and whether the designers who master this hybrid workflow gain an edge in how convincingly they can sell a vision.