The building Ma has proposed, which will house the filmmaker’s private collection, resembles nothing so much as a lunar landscape. Its undulating roof culminates in a towering seven-story-high conical form, which in turn supports a cantilevered disk. That disk, containing a restaurant and a public observation deck, could be a terrestrial version of Cloud City, the gas-mining colony above the planet Bespin in The Empire Strikes Back.
In an interview this morning, Ma said that Lucas was looking for a “21st-century museum that can inspire people.” But the design is rooted not just in Lucas-ian imagery (from some angles, the squat building, with its eye-like window, could be a 400,000-square-foot Jabba the Hutt) but in other visions, including J.R.R. Tolkien's original drawing of the Lonely Mountain.
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