6. A building fit for superheros or supervillains in south Florida When Florida Polytechnic was looking for a designer to create a new facility for their campus, they tapped alumnus Santiago Calatrava. In order to symbolize the dual nature of technology and its capability to be used for both good and evil, Mr. Calatrava created a building that fuses elements of both the Hall of Justice and the Hall of Doom. All right, we're making that up. But still, this impressive sub-tropical moat-surrounded water egg is sure to inspire its students to think beyond the limits of today. [Source]

5. Life inside a cocoon in Gotjawal Village, South Korea While this building somewhat resembles what a Transformer leaves behind after downing one too many energon cubes (amiright?!?), it's actually an ambitious and environmentally-conscious condo design for a UNESCO site in South Korea created with locally-sourced materials that handle the peninsula's unique climate with as little resources as possible. [Source]

7. "The Curve" in Slough, United Kingdom For the town of Slough's library/adult education complex, London-based Bblur Architecture has dreamed up a long curvaceous breadbox of a building. The 50,000 square-foot complex will come fitted with a photovoltaic-studded roof to give the building an environmentally as well as educational bent. [Source]

8. A fintastic library in East Lansing, Michigan Tailfins. They defined 1950s automotive cool, but they also might be a fixture of new millennial architecture. These designs from a soon-to-be completed art museum at Michigan State University showcase a structure encased in metallic fins zipping in every direction giving the structure a futuristic, vibrant aura. [Source]

9. The Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Set to be the tallest building in the world, the ambitious Kingdom Tower will climb more than one kilometer into the sky. This jutting, imposing design even harbors a 100-foot diameter "sky terrace" on the 157th floor originally designed as a helipad, that idea was later scrapped and will instead be the world's highest private deck for one of the future building's more well-compensated inhabitants. [Source]

10. A building made of buildings in Xian, China Why build one building when you can build a whole neighborhood in the shape of one building? That's the concept that designers 3gatti came up with for their new skyscraper hotel design in Xian. The entire structure is a series gigantic shelves fitted with smaller individual complexes on each shelf, as if there's a city block on each level. For extra cool points, the structure even features an elongated third floor complete with full-grown trees. [Source]

11. A twizzler shaped building in Vancouver, Canada From certain angles, this twisty turny skyscraper proposal looks like a strong gust of Canadian wind would send it toppling to the ground. This 490-foot residential/commercial mixed "Beach and Howe Street" tower will twist its way out of a glass base structure situated underneath a roadway overpass. [Source]

14. An evil spaceship/conference center in Dalian, China When most industries organize conferences, inevitably the first thing they think is "are there any evil spaceships that we can rent?" And that's just what the city of Dalian, China is banking on with their currently in-construction conference center that looks like it is filled with evil robots from beyond the moon. [Source]

12. DNB Headquarters in Oslo, Norway The principal for the design team behind this financial HQ in Oslo has referred to this glop of shapes as "basically a large box of Legos." Originally designed in 2009, the structure seems to portend some of the shapeshifting cityscapes of Christopher Nolan's 2011 surrealist vision Inception. [Source]

13. Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan Architecture is often the primary medium that emerging economies use to announce that they have arrived on the international scene. This melting warped cultural center in Baku, Azerbaijan is already under construction and will host a performance space and vast library. But more importantly for the Azerbaijani developers, the complex will signify an advanced, modern cityscape. [Source]

4. Live like the underwater Jetsons in Dubai, UAE A look from the inside.

4. Live like the underwater Jetsons in Dubai, UAE One thing you can't accuse Dubai of is being architecturally unambitious. With the help of design firm, Deep Ocean Technology, developers hope to create a futuristic Jetsons-like hotel comprised of various disc-like levels, including a main disc that sits below the surface of the water, allowing wealthy visitors to sleep with the fishes. [Source]

1. Living Building in Warsaw, Poland Architect Camelo Rebelo's design for Warsaw's Museum of Modern Art takes architecture to positively FernGully-esque levels with a literally living green exterior. The varying geometric design is covered in a layer of living vegetation. As the season changes, so will the building's exterior colors. [Source]

3. Life in "The Cloud" in Seoul, South Korea Another figment of the Seoul Dreamhub is a separate set of linked residential towers. But this design from Dutch design house MVRDV features a multi-clustered "bridge" to connect the two main towers. The design has been subject to some controversy as it can be said to resemble New York's fallen Twin Towers under attack. [Source]

2. The Cross # Towers in Seoul, South Korea In order to meet the height and spacing requirements for this housing project in the Yongsan International Business District (aka the "Dreamhub"), design studio BIG created two main towers of differing lengths that are connected by two horizontal towers topped with green rooftop gardens. The final product is its own twitter trending topic. [Source]

3. Life in "The Cloud" in Seoul, South Korea A view of the Cloud and surround Dreamhub complex at night.

9. The Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia The Kingdom Tower sky terrace on floor 157.