For arts and design exhibition Fantastic 2012, British designer Ross Lovegrove converted the Lille, France train station into an extreterrestrial landing pad for a custom-built UFO.
A large UFO hovers over the station platform, on the verge of making a landing… The metal disk, suspended above track level, comes complete with other-worldly blue lights, and occasionally beams up a train passenger.
The large metal space craft, adorned by blue lights which mark the perimeter of the design, has been developed for lille3000 - the festival which investigates new technologies and concepts for application in the creative fields of design and art - as part of their 'fantastic 2012' program (the 'UFO' is on show until january 13th, 2013) in which visitors are faced with the supernatural and sublime reality whereby the distortion of time and space is imminent.
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Photos courtesy Simona Cupoli.