What do you think of these "Towers"?

shel90 said:
You never know...I have seen some weird architecture in Las Vegas recently that made me :shock:.

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Yeah, I've seen some weird stuff, but I can't see a mushroom cloud being used as a design for anything but a water tower.

Hey, who designed all those water towers, BTW? What an insult to the Japanese!:P
 
jillio said:
Yeah, I've seen some weird stuff, but I can't see a mushroom cloud being used as a design for anything but a water tower.

Hey, who designed all those water towers, BTW? What an insult to the Japanese!:P
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The same firm kinda did...lemme get the pics.
 
So your point is we are all better off to cover our eyes, ignore the world around us, and never mind what those crazy furriners do, cuz over here it's just us 'mericans?
 
Beowulf said:
Whoops, I just googled and Fat Boy was dropped on Nagasaki. Fat Man was dropped on Hiroshima.
I bet I could duplicate the bombs in cakes.
Not that I would.
My Japanese friends would turn their backs on me and bow the other way.
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Well, then I made the same mistake.:P You know those Japanese names...they all sound alike.:giggle:
 
Beach girl said:
So your point is we are all better off to cover our eyes, ignore the world around us, and never mind what those crazy furriners do, cuz over here it's just us 'mericans?
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If you can see all the way to South Korea and can see buildings that were never built, I know a research department that would be really interested in you. Otherwise, there is no need to cover your eyes. Just stop getting upset over everything you see published in a rag.:P But hey, if you want to let the "media" manipulate you like that, I guess it is your choice.
 
Not a perfect replica but definitely kinda mushroom (round) shaped...
 

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If you saw that in person?

To tell you the truth, if I saw that in person, I would definitely be reminded of the horrors of 9/11...
 

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shel90 said:
Not a perfect replica but definitely kinda mushroom (round) shaped...
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Yep, definitely weird. Kind of like the kidney bean sculpture and the changing portrait building in Chicago.
 
shel90 said:
To tell you the truth, if I saw that in person, I would definitely be reminded of the horrors of 9/11...
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Is that the one in South Korea, or another one in Vegas?

Even without priming? But then, there is really no way to answer that, because you have already been primed. It is no accident though, that you have to read the headlines claiming that it is representative of 9/11 before you ever see the picture.
 
shel90 said:
It is in South Korea.

there is one in Vegas? Really?
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No, I just got confused about the sequence of your pictures. That's why I asked. :giggle: I'm sure if there was one in Vegas, the N Y Post would have published a picture with a leading headline by now.:P
 
Anyways, I have a question. If the designers werent thinking about NYC's twin towers then why is one taller than the other just like the orginal ones were? Just too much of a coidience, in my opinion.
 
AlleyCat said:
I agree. It was my very first thought too.

It's weird -- there was a time when I didn't use to put CNN (or the TV at all for that matter) in the morning while getting ready for work. Something told me to put the TV on that morning, I can't explain it. (Now I do put the TV on in the mornings, but never used to!)
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Similar...I liked news radio but usually listen to music for the benefit of my crew. But I happened to choose news on the day of the USS Cole attack.
 
jillio said:
If you can see all the way to South Korea and can see buildings that were never built, I know a research department that would be really interested in you. Otherwise, there is no need to cover your eyes. Just stop getting upset over everything you see published in a rag.:P But hey, if you want to let the "media" manipulate you like that, I guess it is your choice.
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For starters, these pictures and a translation of an interview with the architects, where one says "I admit we did think of 9/11 for a second..." are on the websites of numerous news outlets, including NBC, CBS, Fox, Huffington Post, Weekly Standard, and at least two dozen more.

If I never read the papers, watched TV, or used the Internet, right, I would never know about it. Since I do in fact do those things, yes, I learned about it. And FTR, before it was brought up here on AD.

Imagery is important. It's worth knowing about these things. If you don't care to know, or care about the visual impact of controversial designs, you can shield your eyes, I guess.
 
Beach girl said:
So your point is we are all better off to cover our eyes, ignore the world around us, and never mind what those crazy furriners do, cuz over here it's just us 'mericans?
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Kill the messenger!!!
 
Beach girl said:
For starters, these pictures and a translation of an interview with the architects, where one says "I admit we did think of 9/11 for a second..." are on the websites of numerous news outlets, including NBC, CBS, Fox, Huffington Post, Weekly Standard, and at least two dozen more.

If I never read the papers, watched TV, or used the Internet, right, I would never know about it. Since I do in fact do those things, yes, I learned about it. And FTR, before it was brought up here on AD.

Imagery is important. It's worth knowing about these things. If you don't care to know, or care about the visual impact of controversial designs, you can shield your eyes, I guess.
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How do you know that translation was accurate?

And again, what if they were thinking of 9/11 at some point? The buildings were not built in the U.S. Had they been, then you might have had a complaint. But they were built in South Korea. Terribly ethnocentric to believe that every country in the world should take the feelings and perceptions of U.S. citizens into account before erecting a building. How many countries do we consider before putting a building up?

And what, exactly, does knowing about it do for you? Does it protect you somehow? Are you able to have the buildings torn down because you are offended about a structure in another country? Nope. All it does it give you some ethnocentric reason to be upset about a building in South Korea. Yeah, there's a big benefit to knowing. Maybe it will even trigger PTSD in an actual survivor. There's a good use to publishing the photo. Geeze!
 
While I don't like the design of these towers as they remind me too much of 911, I don't think the design was intended to offend Americans. As much as many Americans would like to think otherwise, the world does not revolve around America.
 
jillio said:
[How do you know that translation was accurate?

And again, what if they were thinking of 9/11 at some point? The buildings were not built in the U.S. Had they been, then you might have had a complaint. But they were built in South Korea. Terribly ethnocentric to believe that every country in the world should take the feelings and perceptions of U.S. citizens into account before erecting a building. How many countries do we consider before putting a building up?

And what, exactly, does knowing about it do for you? Does it protect you somehow? Are you able to have the buildings torn down because you are offended about a structure in another country? Nope. All it does it give you some ethnocentric reason to be upset about a building in South Korea. Yeah, there's a big benefit to knowing. Maybe it will even trigger PTSD in an actual survivor. There's a good use to publishing the photo. Geeze!
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I think ASL users would have a few words to say about that! :lol: :P
 
It's not wise to take offense from other cultures so easily. Don't the hearies get offended by Deafies when they don't understand Deaf Culture? Same kind of thing.

Maybe it's narcissistic to think that other people should be thinking about us all of the time? Maybe America wasn't even on their radar? I'm certainly egocentric enough to forget to consider other cultures.
 
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