In the Out-There department, it's pretty hard to top Plasma Studio's stainless-steel spaceship of a fourth floor, where fragmented pieces of metal meet to create sharp-edged angles in the hallway and on the ceiling.
He reminisced on using some of his early album profit for buying as much futuristic gear as he could afford, something which would in turn transform his studio into a glowing spaceship when he would turn the lights off.
Garland enlisted the help of Territory Studio, the interface designers behind the spaceship controls of Guardians of the Galaxy and the computers in Jupiter Ascending, to design the website that Nathan made his billions on.
Inside the multifaceted, multilevel art space that is Red Bull Studios New York, there a deconstructed spaceship occupies the main gallery.
Mr. Blair, 23, a software engineer from East Texas, pays $1,700 a month for a studio in what he calls the Yuppie Spaceship: a new luxury apartment building on an unluxurious corner in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
"The main rooms at Wisseloord are these enormous, spaceship-style studios," notes Davie, although Bear's Den's allotted space is more appropriately cosily downhome.
"Just before Christmas, I was installed in London's Shepperton Studios to dream up spaceships for a new Marvel film," he said.
Three years ago they built their own studio in Paris, which they conceived as "a Star Wars spaceship with the equipment of Stevie Wonder".
In Dark Orbit, a browser-based space adventure from Bigpoint, a German online-game studio, customers can buy a "10th drone" to beef up their spaceship for around €1,000.
Duly inspired, the studio started work on the crucial UK launch title, Wipeout, a slick spaceship racing game with fast-paced, almost hypnotic 3D visuals.
