It has come to my attention that there are 2 giant Deathstar buildings currently under construction in the Middle East. What's up with that?

In case you are not geeky enough to have an encyclopedic image memory of everything in Star Wars, here is the "original recipe" George Lucas Deathstar:


Now Rem Koolhaas, of CCTV Tower fame, is working on this convention center near Dubai:


Meanwhile, a Korean firm is building this Full Moon Hotel in Baku, Azerbaijan (Baku- seriously? I had not realized people went there as tourists. The next Dubai?) Important: note from the photos, that from the front it is Deathstarry but it's an illusion- it's actually a flat-ish building.


And just because I feel like it, can you believe someone made this complicated Deathstar jack o' lantern? Sheesh, that looks like a lot of work.