For the last year i've been working with the rest of the Eve online team developing our new player built structures, taking over from the wonderfully talented Pavel Savchuk.
These structures have been an immense challenge for me and the team - Artistically, we had to convey a structure that could construct everything from small weapons and modules to Titans. They needed to be self contained manufacturing lines, rather than sparse rib-like shipyards or hollow boxes. I spent a ton of time looking at car manufacturing plants from the air, and went with a very flat, boxy shape where we'd show materials coming in from the front, and finished products being stored and transported at the back. Each structure also needed a "lab" for research, so the central towers were modelled after corporate research offices.