What do you think of these "Towers"?

I think it is tasteless and insensitive beyond my wildest imagination.
 
I think it's really stretching it to claim this is to mock the Twin Towers collapsing. Just another media ploy to get people all riled up.
 
It's just an ugly, albeit interesting, design. WGF?
 
Totally ugly. And yes, I firmly believe they modeled it off the WTC attacks pics. Maybe not to be vindictive or mocking, but it's where they got the idea, I believe. Means the architects have no imagination of their own. Ugly Ugly Ugly Ugly.
 
I wonder if South Korea have their own Spiderman?
 
There's only so much you can do with two towers. I assume that they are building twin towers for function. Is no one supposed to build twin towers anymore?
 
sallylou said:
There's only so much you can do with two towers. I assume that they are building twin towers for function. Is no one supposed to build twin towers anymore?
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It's not just that it's two towers - which "just happen" to look very, very similar to Manhattan's two towers - it's the part about 1/3 of the way down that looks amazingly reminiscent of the flames and explosions of the planes hitting the towers.

I think it's no coincidence, considering the designer, and it's horribly mocking and insensitive. I don't see how he can innocently say "gee, never occurred to me!" when he's the designer responsible for the re-building design of the plaza in Manhattan.
 
Beach girl said:
It's not just that it's two towers - which "just happen" to look very, very similar to Manhattan's two towers - it's the part about 1/3 of the way down that looks amazingly reminiscent of the flames and explosions of the planes hitting the towers.

I think it's no coincidence, considering the designer, and it's horribly mocking and insensitive. I don't see how he can innocently say "gee, never occurred to me!" when he's the designer responsible for the re-building design of the plaza in Manhattan.
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'I must admit that we also thought of September 11, 2001,' he says, in a translation of an article on Friday from Dutch to English. 'But it is not intended association with the attacks.'

In an interesting development it has been revealed ‘The Cloud’ will be built in the ‘Youngsan Dream Hub’, which is in part designed by the man behind the new World Trade Center complex.
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Read more: MVRDV architects reveal plans for South Korean buildings that look eerily like the Twin Towers exploding | Mail Online
 
When I saw the picture, my heart just stopped. No, not a good idea at all.
 
I wonder: how many Americans will ever see these buildings in South Korea? The buildings have to been seen before one can draw a conclusion and feel insulted. I doubt the South Koreans are really looking for any similarities or connections to 9/11. This is a reaction specific to Americans. Had the buildings been constructed in the U.S., maybe people would have an axe to grind. But these buildings are in South Korea.

I find it possible that the architect might not have made the connection. After all, he is Dutch. Most people outside this country don't spend a lot of time thinking about America, or what might offend Americans. Since the buildings were being constructed in South Korea, his concern would be to not do anything that was culturally offensive to South Koreans, not Americans.
Putting the pics in the NY Post was just another media attempt to rile people up.
 
shel90 said:
When I saw the picture, my heart just stopped. No, not a good idea at all.
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Yeah, that was the point of them putting the picture in the N Y Post. For Americans who would not ever have even known anything about these buildings to see it and get upset about it. Would you have related it to the Twin Towers if that suggestion had not already been primed for you in the headlines?
 
smh

I think people get upset over 9/11 for the wrong reasons. Oh well.
 
I cant speculate but the picture did remind me of that day in such a way that I dont want to be reminded. Maybe I am more sensitive because I was in DC when all of this happened. Who knows?
 
shel90 said:
I cant speculate but the picture did remind me of that day in such a way that I dont want to be reminded. Maybe I am more sensitive because I was in DC when all of this happened. Who knows?
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Nah, I think almost anyone that saw those towers fall would have that reaction seeing these buildings.
 
That firm seems to enjoy putting a thumb in the eye of people who are suffering. Did you read down the page and see the "home" they designed for people who had been displaced by Katrina? It looks like it has been broken and bent by high winds, about to float away.

Nice, huh?
 
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