For me it's not fantastical at all, it's an utterly spot-on take on our actual real life experience of urban life in America: giant parking lots, freeways, corporate parks, long walks through airport terminals and other liminal spaces designed at car-scale. But taken out of context so we're forced to reckon with it's weirdness, oppressiveness, scale, how starkly it juxtaposes against the natural world, how it will all last far beyond our own lifetimes and make us feel like lemmings in a giant maze devised by deities, and so on.
I think the way it looks like some kind of landing bay on Mars speaks just as much to how our sci-fi stories were influenced by our urban architecture as it does the reverse.