Jaw-dropping landscapes of the future have been created based on predictions by top engineers and architects.

The glorious vista feature floating and underwater cities, 3D-printed homes and even animals grazing on top of skyscrapers.

The images were commissioned to coincide with the launch of a new series of Impossible Engineering on TV channel Yesterday.

Experts working on the series also believe we will inhabit ultra-deep basements and buildings with their own complex micro-climates.

And when it comes to the daily commute, they foresee mega-bridges spanning entire cities and spaceports with direct access to the moon and Mars.

They came from a distinguished panel including Dr Rhys Morgan, Director of Engineering and Education at the Royal Academy of Engineering and award-winning architects and lecturers at the University of Westminster.

Multi-layered basement extensions are already materialising, particularly in high-value, densely-populated areas of London, and the experts said future homes may have as many floors below ground as they do above.

Floating sea cities harnessing solar and tidal energy were voted the next most likely development, followed by urban high rise farms where crops and animals are kept in tall, layered, space-saving structures.

3D-printed 'off-the-shelf' homes and buildings with their own micro-climates that mean we can live in previously uninhabitable areas complete the top five.

The top three predictions were then visualised by architecture illustrators.

Many of the predictions were influenced by environmental conditions, with global warming and rising sea levels encouraging a focus on water-based architecture.

In a complementary survey of 2,000 Brits, one in three believes floating cities would be a viable option for the future, with 10 per cent preferring the idea of developing underwater cities and one in five thinking floating living pods on major rivers would solve the problem of inner-city crowding.

Population increase was another factor raised by the panel.

According to research, space constraint would catalyse the development of structures such as high-rise farms (15 per cent want to see these) and cities in the sky that build upwards in levels on top of each other (preferred by 13 per cent).