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Wowza. The design firm AMLGM designed these “Urban Alloy Towers” to rise above the Woodside Long Island Railroad and 7 train station. (Curbed calls this “the most exciting and completely insane thing ever proposed for Queens.” AMLGM, on the other hand, calls this “symbiotic re-purposing of the air rights above transportation corridors in New York.”) These designs aren’t meant to be actually built, but it sure is fun pretending.

The facade of these tubular towers, which shift from cylindrical to triangular shapes from bottom to top, is made of metal fins with their own specific “solar orientation.” The interior holds luxury, market-rate and SRO apartments, retail, office space, a central atrium and transportation infrastructure. The idea is to bring housing close to transportation hubs, and offer “a wide range of living conditions… within the one development.” You can read all the architectural details over at Design Boom. Meanwhile, we’ll just drool over the renderings — check out more crazy images after the jump.

AMLGM Envisions Urban Alloy Tower Over Transportation Hub in New York [Design Boom] via Curbed

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Pictured below, the atrium space.
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An apartment.
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The breakdown of space within the tubes.
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