Crazy Urban Alloy Transportation Hub Looks Like an Alien Organism Landed on Queens

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If Queens's Men in Black movie cameo wasn't enough for you, Chad Kellogg and Matt Bowles of AMLGM Labs have a crazy-looking new building for the borough that would be the perfect backdrop for an alien invasion film. Called Urban Alloy Towers, the hub in

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If Queens's Men in Black movie cameo wasn't enough for you, Chad Kellogg and Matt Bowles of AMLGM Labs have a crazy-looking new building for the borough that would be the perfect backdrop for an alien invasion film. Called Urban Alloy Towers, the transit hub would connect with the existing LIRR station in Woodside and reach into the sky with coral-like limbs. The structure was also designed with an energy-efficient, flexible skin to block glaring sunlight from directly entering the hub's interior.

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A coral building emerges in Woodside, Queens.

The Urban Alloy Towers have been designed inside and out by Chad Kellogg and Matt Bowles of AMLGM Labs.

AMLGM Labs Urban Alloy Towers

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The Urban Alloy Towers have been designed inside and out by Chad Kellogg and Matt Bowles of AMLGM Labs.

Beyond a skin-deep level of innovation, the building has also been designed to use the “remnant spaces” of the surrounding intersection and elevated LIRR tracks.

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Beyond a skin-deep level of innovation, the building has also been designed to use the “remnant spaces” of the surrounding intersection and elevated LIRR tracks.

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AMLGM Labs Urban Alloy Towers Overhead

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As such the parts of the building extend outwards towards the street. From above the Urban Alloy Towers look like a cross that’s been overlaid the city streets.

AMLGM Labs Urban Alloy Towers Cutaway

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The interior of the building, meanwhile, features a variety of housing types, plus retail space and commercial offices.

At the center of the retail spaces there’s also plans to build an expansive atrium for visitors to look down and see the transit hub. It’s unlikely we’ll ever see the Urban Alloy Towers ever become a reality, but it’s certainly a unique and

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At the center of the retail spaces there’s also plans to build an expansive atrium for visitors to look down and see the transit hub. It’s unlikely we’ll ever see the Urban Alloy Towers ever become a reality, but it’s certainly a unique and interesting design.

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