Office Building Interior Evokes 2001

This building in Shanghai looks like a set from 2001. [Link]

User interfaces for computers are modeled after familiar places like offices and houses (hence "folders" and "windows"). But in this design project, called Signterior, architect Nobuhiro Nakamura uses a computer-like interface to help people to navigate a large Shanghai office and shopping structure. I often think this is what the future would look like if I could travel to it: A bewildering world filled with signs and directions I can't parse. Check out a few more oddities of signage that Nakamura created.