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Carefully disguised as university buildings, museums, egg-shaped beach huts and mixed-use office buildings, they’re lurking in our midst. MAD architects designing a museum for the director of Star Wars – could there be a bigger clue? Or maybe onoffice has been at the mulled wine. Beam us up Scotty.
All hail the mothership
Santiago Calatrava‘s Innovation, Science + Technology Building, Florida Polytechnic University
Status: completed
A surreal sight beneath the Northern Lights
Waterstudio‘s Krystal Hotel, floating off the coast of Norway
Set for completion in 2017
Alien spaceship disguised as mixed-use office building
TheeAe’s Cube Biometric Centre, Hong Kong
Status: completed
Spacecraft most like a cycle helmet
Zaha Hadid‘s Alwakrah Stadium, Qatar
Status: set for completion in 2022
Landing on the Yoon
Yoon Space Design’s Albang egg beach huts, South Korea
Status: completed
This is ground control to Major Tom
Atelier 8000‘s kežmarské hut, Slovakia
Status: competition entry
Crystal maze for the 21st century
NBBJ‘s Amazon HQ, Seattle
Status: approved
UFO or WTF?
BIG‘s extension to Audemar Pignet’s HQ, Switzerland
Status: completed
Flying saucer or silver donut?
Foster + Partner‘s £5m Apple campus, Cupertino
Status: set for completion in 2016
Mad prepares for the Return of the Jedi
MAD’s George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Chicago
Status: On hold
