Dutch Architecture Firm Designs Something "9/11"ish

[DMX7]

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/lauren/0%20the%20cloud/cl01.jpg

MVRDV regrets deeply any connotations The Cloud projects evokes regarding 9/11.

The Cloud was designed based on parameters such as sunlight, outside spaces, living quality for inhabitants and the city. It is one of many projects in which MVRDV experiments with a raised city level to reinvent the often solitary typology of the skyscraper. It was not our intention to create an image resembling the attacks nor did we see the resemblance during the design process. We sincerely apologize to anyone whose feelings we have hurt, it was not our intention.

The design inspiration of The Cloud is visualised in the first image on our website, a cloud covering the centre of the Sky scraper.

http://gothamist.com/2011/12/11/architects_sorry_people_think_twin.php#photo-1

[baseline bum]

Should have tilted one of the towers above the cloud so it better resembled the collapse. Seriously, how can someone not think 9/11 seeing that? :lol

[ChumpDumper]

Pfft. They left out building 7 JUST LIKE THE COMMISSION REPORT! :madrun

[DMX7]

Pfft. They left out building 7 JUST LIKE THE COMMISSION REPORT! :madrun

Where's Mouse? He's probably all over this already.

[TDMVPDPOY]

i see nothing wrong with this man

[DMX7]

i see nothing wrong with this man

I bet you don't, mate.

[Yonivore]

If it was intentional, it's in poor taste. But, if not, I think it's just an unfortunate coincidence; because, the concept of the staggered apartments with terraces, gardens, and balconies is pretty cool.

No reason not to take the designers at their word unless someone knows something to the contrary.

[Stringer_Bell]

This is not surprising, Asia has been waiting for a chance to troll us for milking 9/11. South Korea won the contest via a Dutch firm. Nothing to see here, move along.

[DarrinS]

The building on the left? Or the two in the middle?

[101A]

Ugly.

[cantthinkofanything]

If it was intentional, it's in poor taste. But, if not, I think it's just an unfortunate coincidence; because, the concept of the staggered apartments with terraces, gardens, and balconies is pretty cool.

No reason not to take the designers at their word unless someone knows something to the contrary.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/dutch-architects-korean-911-towers-look-sushi-or-chopsticks_613181.html



My report last Friday (http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/proposed-s-korean-towers-resemble-exploding-world-trade-center_611802.html) on the planned South Korean towers that resemble the World Trade Center enveloped in an explosive “cloud” on 9/11 provoked an angry message from a spokesperson for MVRDV, the Dutch architectural firm that designed the towers. In my article, I quoted MVRDV spokesman Jan Knikker, who told the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, “I have to admit that we also thought of the 9/11 attacks.” The admission directly contradicts the “apology” posted in English on the MVRDV website, which, among other things, claimed that the designers did not “see the resemblance during the design process.”

[Yonivore]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/dutch-architects-korean-911-towers-look-sushi-or-chopsticks_613181.html
Then it was in poor taste.

It would be nice if they placed that in the context of why 9/11 crossed his mind and if he was trying to honor the event or mock America.

[cheguevara]

its a pretty fucking stupid design

[SnakeBoy]

MVRDV is a global operating architecture and urbanism practice with an progressive ideal engaged in solving global issues.

It's pretty clear from the company's own description of themselves that they are a bunch of socialist liberals celebrating the attack on capitalism. Fuck those wooden shoe wearing commie bastards.

[SnakeBoy]

Looks like it will be a cool place to live though.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/lauren/0%20the%20cloud/cl02.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/lauren/0%20the%20cloud/cl04.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/lauren/0%20the%20cloud/cl08.jpg

[mouse]

You didn't see lesbians complain when this building was made.

http://www.constructionphotography.com/ImageThumbs/A023-00284/3/A023-00284_30_St_Mary_Axe_The_Gherkin_SwissRe_building_ London_UK_Norman_Foster_and_Partners_Architects.jp g

[Yonivore]

You didn't see lesbians complain when this building was made.

http://www.constructionphotography.com/ImageThumbs/A023-00284/3/A023-00284_30_St_Mary_Axe_The_Gherkin_SwissRe_building_ London_UK_Norman_Foster_and_Partners_Architects.jp g
I believe they did. :lmao Well, they will now!

[ChumpDumper]

Why would they?