Zaha Hadid’s new skyscraper in Melbourne looks like an earplug!

You might have seen Zaha Hadid's name in the news recently. Japan's Sports Council has recently replaced her widely loathed and alien-like Olympic stadium design in Tokyo. But the real update comes in the form of a new skyscraper in Melbourne. It looks a little bit like an earplug?

In partnership with Plus Architecture, the new Hadid-designed skyscraper hopes to reshape the small city's skyline. The release describes a signature element of the design as "a series of smaller stacked vases" which produces an almost ribbed form factor.

By curving segments of the skyscraper inward at certain points, that stack both improves the building's energy efficiency and provides extra square footage for green space outdoors. But don't you think it looks like something different? It looks like a high-quality silicone ear plug — one of the slightly flatter ear plugs.

The cups of silicone that make up high-quality earplugs are stacked in such a way that they trap sound out while holding still in your ear canal. The building's equivalent to the earplugs' silicone is a filigree that wraps around the building.