If you ever happen to take a flight over the skies of Changle, Fuzhou, China, you're in for a surprising sight: one building in that city looks exactly like the USS Enterprise from Star Trek.
If you do see that building, don't think it's a trick of your eyes: yes, it actually exists, and yes, it's meant to look like that.
The building belongs to a company called NetDragon Websoft, a Chinese gaming company. The chairman, Liu DeJian, is a huge Star Trek fan and worked with CBS to purchase the licensing rights to make the building into a gigantic replica of the starship Enterprise. Mashable reports that construction on the building began in 2008 and finished last year, at a total cost of around $160 million.
If you're not flying over China anytime soon, you can still see the building via Google Maps.
But the building isn't just cool on the outside: it also features some pretty cool things on the inside, too. There's also a replica of a T-Rex, slides that go from the third floor to the first floor and those famous Star Trek automatic sliding doors that separate work areas.
Of course, which version of Enterprise this represents is still up for debate, but it seems the architects sort of took design ideas from all the models and merged them together. It doesn't matter, because it would still be fun to work in such a building. We have to wonder how many times employees just sort of stand inside their work spaces there and think "Beam me up, Scotty!"
Someone also managed to get a drone in the air above the building for a better view of it and its structure. It's just too bad that the video doesn't have better more Star Trek-like music.
We'd say the building's designers did a great job of boldly going where no one has gone before.
[Photo Credit: Google]
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