High Tech uses technology in an almost Futurist way. The buildings are strikingly reminiscent of the unbuilt designs of the architect Antonio Sant’ Elia, a member of the Italian Futurist movement of the 1910s and 20s. His designs for La Città Nuova (1914) combine sharp diagonals and verticals, evoking the energy and dynamism felt to be characteristic of the age. His buildings are often surmounted by features resembling industrial chimneys or radio masts, making a slightly picturesque use of an iconography derived from machines. His trademark external elevators and interconnecting bridges constitute an architecture that proselytises a cult of the machine.