Back in the early 20th century a bunch of super artsy Italians started a futurism movement founded around the idea of bringing ideas of the future into art. Architecture, being a subcategory of art, was destined to become part of this movement, and eventually it did, which is the reason for any war or machine age technology themed buildings you may see. These structures were supposedly supposed to represent the people's hopes and dreams for the future, but as the genre originated around the time of World War 1, some are just gruesome depictions of war.
You would think, considering the fancy technology displayed in these buildings is now well outdated, that the futurist style of architecture would have ended by now, but no. As time goes by, futurism moves on to display more modern ideas of the future, as well as showing up in some other genres like googie or art deco. Basically anything that stands out as ahead of the times could be placed in the futurist category Currently, there is a post modern futurism style of architecture, which features spacecraft and sci-fi themes. This is what I ended up devoting a few hours of my life into making a super mind-blowingly accurate model of. Here's the result:
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