Posted on 12/11/2011 2:33:05 PM PST by NYer
The unveiling of pictures of planned luxury residential towers scheduled to be built in Seoul, South Korea, has sparked instant controversy. The reason is obvious. The towers, which include a so-called “cloud” feature connecting them around the 27th floors, clearly resemble the World Trade Towers in the process of collapsing following the 9/11 attacks.
The designers of the towers, Dutch architectural firm MVRDV, have responded to the controversy by quickly publishing an apology in English. “It was not our intention to create an image resembling the attacks,” the designers insist, “nor did we see the resemblance during the design process.”
They did not see the resemblance during the design process? The problem with this assertion – apart from its inherent implausibility – is that they have admitted the contrary in Dutch. Thus Jan Knikker of MVRDV told the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, “I have to admit that we also thought of the 9/11 attacks.”
Moreover, given the context, the MVRDV architects could hardly have not thought of the 9/11 attacks. The residential towers, after all, are supposed to be built at the entrance to the so-called Yongsan Dream Hub: a complex of business towers that has been designed by none other than Daniel Libeskind, the designer of the original “master plan” for the reconstruction of Ground Zero. Indeed, as the below image from Studio Daniel Libeskind makes clear, Libeskind’s Yongsan Dreamhub “master plan” closely resembles his original “master plan” for lower Manhattan.
It makes you wonder who agrees to pay for this crap.
That is one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever seen.
“That is one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever seen.”
Ya think? Look at these MIT buildings.
That building is even worse inside than out. I toured it last time I was in Boston and environs (my wife had a professional conference and I went along) because my daughter had an application in to MIT’s philosophy doctoral program that spring and philosophy is housed in that monstrosity. Nor is the outside quite as ugly as the Guggenheim Bilbao, which was “designed” by the same “architect”.
As we go bankrupt, we are PAYING to protect people who insult this massacre and who in many cases do NOT take the NK threat seriously.
Is it sustainable that the USA takes SK security more seriously than SK *itself*....?
It is bizarre, there were 28 South Korean victims of 9/11.
That picture makes me physically ill. What’s next? Will the cloud section be lit with red and orange backlighting at night?
After reading some of the comments I had to look back at the article - I thought these buildings were in North Korea at first. And - in an odd way I admired them for a unique design and a huge propaganda image.
But now seeing that they are in South Korea - they are just stupid and ugly.
Not only do the buildings look like the collapsing towers on 9/11, but the buildings are just plain ugly.
Okay, is it my alcohol,(Crown Royal), soaked Sunday night brain or does that building on the left in the top picture look as about how my vision is right now? Anybody? HELP!!!???
I’ve never been inside the complex but have seen the outside many times.
I’ve seen pics of The Guggenheim Bilbao.
They look like the results of a really bad acid trip.
I also hate The Louvre Pyramid.
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It would appear to be rather wavy gravy and I haven’t had a drink, yet, tonight. lol
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