Does This Design of Two Towers Remind You of Anything?
- Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:12pm by
Liz Klimas
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(Photo: Concept Image MVRDV)
These residential high-rise buildings to be completed in Seoul, South Korea, by 2015 are connected in the middle by a cloud, which the designer says “differentiates the building from other luxury developments.”
The towers designed by architects at MVRDV are 300 and 260 meters high with a “pixelated” cloud in the middle at the 27th floor. The cloud allows for more light and room for decks and greenspace.
(Photo: Concept Image MVRDV)
Inside the "cloud" (Photo: Concept Image MVRDV)
As peaceful as that sounds, there is something a bit disconcerting about the design. Here’s what Gizmodo has to say about what may look a little too much like the towers of the World Trade Center beginning to come down on 9/11:
From higher angles the ten story tall pixelated cloud structure that connects the two 850+ foot towers certainly looks more whimsical, as I’m sure the architects at MVRDV intended it to be. But most people will be viewing it looking up from ground level. And I‘m afraid from that angle it’s very reminiscent of the images and events that were seen around the entire world that day. So I‘m not really sure how the eerie similarities weren’t spotted before this design was approved.
What do you think of the concept?
Update: Since the posting of this story, MVRDV has issued a statement of apology (be sure to click “read” on the site to see the statement) over the design. The design company writes “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 Weekly Standard (via Drudge Report) reports that even though the design firm said evoking 9/11 “was not our intention”, it may have been thought about more than it is being let on. Written in Dutch in the newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, the Weekly Standard reports Jan Knikker of MVRDV saying “I have to admit that we also thought of the 9/11 attacks.” The Weekly Standard also points out that the design for these residential buildings was created by Daniel Libeskind, who designed the original “master plan” for the reconstruction of Ground Zero.
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Comments (675)
MB1
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:11amwhy don’t they just build a mosque on the top too
Report Post »voodoolife
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:13amMight as well…
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:15amPhase II…
Report Post »KeystoneState
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:24amLooks like a Muslim commeration statue to me!
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 3:07amBrilliant design, neurotic comments on here – as planned by the Blaze. If you can’t find a story to wind up the Blazers, make one up. Can you see the face of Bin Laden in the tower if you squint?
becca_leigh
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 4:34am@Jack of Hearts….were you teased as a child? I’m just curious as to what would cause someone to have such a pathetic and angry disposition that they spend their time going to websites where they already know they will disagree with the majority of readers, but that doesn’t matter since your only objective is to make disparaging comments directed at them?
Report Post »I think it’s sick and inconsiderate…what do you think would happen if we were to build an arena that resembled Hiroshima when we dropped a nuke on them??
voice_of_reason
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:03amCome now becca, a little disagreement is healthy.
Report Post »disgustedAmerican
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:48amokay Jack… If this is aloud to be built, then in retrospect, if there was a building built in the shape of a cross, how long do you think all the libby hacks would call “foul”? This is disrespectful at the least and should not be able to be done.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:58am@MB1 – give them time.
Report Post »IndianTerritoryTeaPartier
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 7:28amJack Of Hearts=Troll
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 7:33am@ Disgusted American
Report Post »There are hundreds of buildings in the shape of a cross – they’re called Cathedrals. What I’m saying and which the respondents here seem to fail to understand is that there is no way that this building is intended to have any resemblance or connection to the events at the twin towers, and to suggest otherwise – Becca Leigh please note – is sick and inconsiderate. By the way Becca baby, you’re the saddo who only goes to sites where they see stories they can agree with! Never heard of discussion? Never heard of opinion? You should listen to Glenn – “malice to no-one” especially since you know nothing of my beliefs.
Jack of Hearts
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 7:56am@Indian territory etc etc
Who’s the troll? Never seen you here before. Anything intelligent to say or do you just cut and post “troll” on websites? Perhaps mommie doesn‘t let you use the PC a lot until you’ve done your chores.
kralspaces
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:03amI love the design. Have you ever watched clouds and found an image of something you are familiar with. Where did those clouds come from?
Report Post »atechgeek
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:09amI am a Big Constitutionalist and Glenn fan, Rush fan, Ron Paul fan, etc, etc .. but I have to agree with Jack Of Hearts. It is a cool design that “so happens” to look like the twin towers exploding .. if you hold your mouth right. I also met a guy who said he saw Jesus in the trees .. and wrote a song about it .. maybe he did .. maybe not … I truly believe this has nothing to do with anything … next.
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:13amIf it’s not depicting the WTC, wtf is it? That is a really ugly design. If you don’t look at it as the WTC it has no meaning at all, and it is an eye sore.
Report Post »KeystoneState
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:15am“There is no way this building is intended to have any resemblance or connection to the events at the twin towers”, well there you have it fellow Blazers, Jack of Hearts said it so it must be true, I’m sure he knows the designers and developers personally, as a matter of fact, it must just be accidentally in the news making people talk 9-11 similarities, could have happened to any random building out there. Excuse me a sec, BOLLCHIT! sorry, had to clear my throat.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:29amIt’s all good, Jack of Trolls.
We know what’s up. Keep campaigning for a trouncing and you’re going to get elected.
Report Post »KeystoneState
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:33amOh common Jack of Hearts, IndianTerritory just happened to have the word “troll” next to your name, there’s no way he had any intention of having it resemble or connect to to you.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:33amSoon you’ll be calling for bombs to drop on them too. You want to control the world and everyone in it!
Report Post »rabblechat
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:45am@Becca, You do know the difference between south Korea and Japan don’t you????
Report Post »rot_soldier
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:46amJack of Hearts is right and anyone that thinks this is South Koreas attempt to poke the eye of the US is a moron. I think this design is brilliant because it changes the whole idea of skyscrappers, but not for you fools that think there is some 9/11 conspiracy around every corner. My God, wake the he!! up and get on with your lives.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:10amLooks pretty dangerous to me. One small earthquake and some of those cubes could come crashing down on Rose Ellen roosting below on the street. Sorry Rose…couldn’t resist.
Report Post »KeystoneState
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:16amWell a name like Rot Soldier tells me that your obviously a caring understanding fellow American, so I‘m sure you’d agree that since some are offended by this building, it should not be built, (please don’t tell me its in South Korea, I’m speaking theoretically), using the same logic others use to squash out whatever it is that rubs them wrong. Imagine a huge building that happened to remind some people of say a Christmas tree.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:32am@MB1:”why don’t they just build a mosque on the top too”
Report Post »____________________________
Just wait…they WILL!
caleejr
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:42amhahaha – good one.
Report Post »OccupyDaMedia
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:42amIdiot, unwarranted scared little being… what are you scared of. The Muslims didn’t do it. You think a Caveman in Pakistan strategically coordinated 4 planes to crash into their targets… and suddenly a passport appears in all that rubble. Building 7?? Sucker to the fear mongering, you fool.
Report Post »Christhefarmer
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:44amI seen designs using the “pixeling” from before 9/11, if these building didnt have it we would say wow they look like the twin towers. They added the pixeling and we say wow they look like the twin towers collapsing…. So if they just copied the towers would we be honored? Then they added to it an idea that they have been wanting to do for 20years and we become offended. Hey whatever floats your boat, boost to the world that you are weak, that you live in the past and that you will whine “boowhoo boowhoo.” I think it looks exactly like the twin towers collapsing, and I would love to live in that cloud, it’s just a building and we are better then this.
Report Post »GodblessGlennBeck
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:44amIt was meant to be offensive and disrespectful. I agree with Becca_Leigh. If we were to be equally insensitive with a style of construction, it would generate anger and outrage EVERYWHERE and we would be deemed “horrible”, “despicable”, etc.
Report Post »Intelligent discussion with diversity of opinion is appreciated. Inflammatory statements designed to offend and belittle, Rot-Soldier, only show your infantile mindset. Go work through your “grown-up bully” issues with a good therapist, not on a site where people are expressing heartfelt concern and horror.
SgtB
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:45amThis is going to go up in SOUTH Korea you imbeciles! S. Korea is our ally and I believe will always be our ally. Remember, they were the ones we actually saved from communist N. Korea. They have a history of building up as their land mass is small. Also, it is not unheard of to build towers that connect in the middle. IF this were intended to look like the WTC on 9-11 they would have made one “cloud” higher than the other and set it on fire. This is obviously not the case. So stop all of your neocon crying and whining when our ally half a world away has an architect that wants to build something really cool because it might remind you of an event that happened in a place you’ve most likely never been. Seriously, you all are starting to sound like a bunch of liberals protesting my right to own a firearm because you saw a person on tv get shot once.
Report Post »GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:53amIt’s been ten years, and you morons are still brainwashed to believe the PR campaign that commercial airliners hit the towers.
Report Post »WAKE THE FU@K UP!!
Dimitri Khalezove explains what happened to a T, his videos were repressed on utube for FIVE YEARS.
It complies w/ the LAWS OF PHYSICS and NOBODY HAS EVEN TRIED TO REFUTE THESE FACTS!
All they do is try to throw out red herring trails like thermite and the like. No thermite theory existed until Khalezov released his book. LOOK AT THE HISTORY AND YOU WILL FIND THE TRUTH.
Johnny Cocheroo
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:55amAgree with Jack of Hearts.
1st. South Koreans don’t remember the twin towers like Americans do & they are not going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars just to poke the U.S. in the eye.
2nd. Seems like many here a looking to become victims. We’re better than that.
3rd. How do you get a riding lawnmower up all those stairs?
Report Post »Miami
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:07amJohnny Cocheroo
But they would to placate to Islamist
Report Post »Miami
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:10amIt might had not been the intent but once drawn it had to come to mind and if they do build it…?
Report Post »worldwar3vet
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:11amya…. and name the whole “ Hussein Obama Gardens”
Report Post »robtech34
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:14amWho’s the troll? Never seen you here before. Anything intelligent to say or do you just cut and post “troll” on websites? Perhaps mommie doesn‘t let you use the PC a lot until you’ve done your chores.
I have no issues with discussion, however, when telling someone they are not intelligent, please try to speak properly yourself.
“Never seen you here before”? – How about; “I”VE never seen you here before.”
And…. “Anything intelligent to say or do you just cut and post “troll” on websites?”
Maybe “HAVE YOU Anything intelligent to say or do you just cut and post “troll” on websites?”
I realize typing to get a point across many times leads to omitted words, but maybe you should proof read your own entry before insinuating someone else is not intelligent.
Oh, by the way, mommie is spelled Mommy.
Report Post »Cat
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:15am~
Definitely a visual stimulation of a sore topic but the structural engineers in Seoul have a secret cantilever formula they’re hiding from the rest of the engineering world
Come on, cough it up …
Report Post »Miami
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:16amSomeRandomPerson
The point of the Blaze is not to make you FEEL GOOD ! the rest of the media does that. I come here for the truth. Have you seen the Cancer treatment anywhere but with Glenn?
Truth has no AGENDA
Report Post »caveman74
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:18amJack of hearts They are allowed to build whatever they like, it is their country anyways. On the other hand I used to have a confederate sticker in the window of my car because my family hails from the south (note the north practiced slavery to but we still fly the US flag with pride) But when my black neighbors moved in I removed it. Not because I believe the confederate flag stands for racism but out of respect for them and what it might mean to them. They expect protection from us and call themselves our friends. The imagery of these buildings can not be ignored and out of respect to the friendship between both nations I hope they reconsider. By the way I enjoy a wonderful friendship with my neighbor and I don’t believe he would have ever even knocked on my door had I left that sticker on my window. You can do anything you want in this life but you must have foresight and weigh the pros and cons of each decision you make.
Report Post »robtech34
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:18am@jackofhearts
Who’s the troll? Never seen you here before. Anything intelligent to say or do you just cut and post “troll” on websites? Perhaps mommie doesn‘t let you use the PC a lot until you’ve done your chores.
I have no issues with discussion, however, when telling someone they are not intelligent, please try to speak properly yourself.
“Never seen you here before”? – How about; “I”VE never seen you here before.”
And…. “Anything intelligent to say or do you just cut and post “troll” on websites?”
Maybe “HAVE YOU Anything intelligent to say or do you just cut and post “troll” on websites?”
I realize typing to get a point across many times leads to omitted words, but maybe you should proof read your own entry before insinuating someone else is not intelligent.
Oh, by the way, mommie is spelled Mommy.
Report Post »ReaganBaby
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:21amThe apology make me even more upset, they claim they “did not see a resemblance during the design process” BS! S. Korea you‘re on your own and when those buildings are knocked down by your neighbors don’t come crying to us.
Report Post »quickstudy
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:21amAt first glance I thought it was an artists rendition of 9-11. Interesting they chose to put the “cloud” at that specific point between the ground floor and the top floor. Proportionately it’s spot on for where the planes it the Word Trade Center towers.
Report Post »SomeRandomPerson
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:25am@Miami I agree with that too, but they could post some positive things a little more often than they do. The world isn’t all about war, murder, and politics.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:27amAs an engineer I see the future of Marxist Fabela ( being a shack city in the sky )
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:33amOh grow up! These are cool! With the tree’s and such, it reminds me of Avatar.
Report Post »Aidan MacAnBhaird
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:35am<<<— Uber conservative chick here. Love the discussions on The Blaze, but for the second time this fall, find myself apparently out of sync with the regulars. This design type has been in the making for decades. I lived in a part of North Dallas that had some Asian design firms come over to study the soil shift properties in the late '80's. I got to know some of the guys, and saw concepts like this they were working on at the time. Their engineering was solid on a light scale, but they were in a quandary about the materials that would be supple enough to withstand a quake, yet strong enough to hold the counter-weight for ages to come. They also were looking at footer and weight bearing models in shifting substrate. That is why the two towers, by the way – they share the weight and relieve the load for each other.
I remember 9-11 and honour all that died there, helped there, and watched helplessly as needless death and destruction rained down. But this has nothing to do with 9-11 and has been in the works for a very long time. Personally, I liked the idea then, and I like it now.
Building structures have changed since the 1400's if anyone has noticed. We have had many types of construction styles and will have many more to come if we can survive ourselves. Commercial construction and design are moving more towards the organic. This is not the most futuristic organic building I have seen come out of the design halls. Get a grip, folks. Not everything is about us.
Report Post »KeystoneState
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:35amOh Brother, is the “Coast to Coast” site down? Groundzero is Nuclear Demolition X3, please go chase Dick Cheney and his Cronies somewhere else, and let those of us in our slumber debate, ok!
Report Post »Johnny Cocheroo
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:44am@miami
Miama Said “ But they would to placate to Islamist”
If they wanted to placate islamists, wouldn’t a giant mosque have a better chance rather than a luxury living towers for those who are top earners?
Look at the company’s web site. They’ve built a lot of different wild looking buildings. They are legit. We’re not victims here.
Report Post »whatistruefreedom
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:48amBeck we care about you. Stop drinking that diet coke. Aspartame causes nerve damage.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:50amPeople it is just a design and just a building. There are a lot of twin tower type structures in the world. Wouldn’t see a reason for all of them to apologize for their appearance.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:55amJohnny Cocheroo
That’s like Obama answering his weakness on Israel with ask AL Qaida and Osama Bin Ladin.
Never had till they did….
Report Post »mils
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:59amThey could not care less what we think…they laugh at us everyday…and we just suck it up…don’t want to offend those wonderful killers of the infidel…us….
That being said…I think it’s fabulous!!!…and i dont’ really care what is or is not behind the design.
Report Post »orthodoxc
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:14amjack of hearts is just a typical lib. It is just too blind and too stupid to notice any resemblance or inference to over 2000 murdered Americans. Amazing!
Report Post »Faith1029
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:35amNot much shocks me anymore. We can’t police the world. As long as it’s not built here in the US, I don’t care how they choose to build.
Report Post »KeystoneState
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:37amDont be fooled Ortho, Jack, as well as the rest of these “Libs” see it, but don’t think for a second that the truth will get in the way of their little agendas. Why have none of them commented on my analogy of a huge building that would just happen to resemble a huge Christmas tree? They’re hypocrites plain and simple.
Report Post »takethat
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:42amwhy must everything come down to hatred? our world is in a sad state. we must bring ourselves above useless bickering. dialog is fine but name calling and useless assumptions helps no one it only brings our society down further.
Report Post »BrianPat
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:46amPeople are over reacting, just like the insecure people who hate Christmas. This is a great design !
Report Post »Tired-of-fools
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:47amHow did I know that this story would bring out all the nut cases, like Jack of Idiots and Ro Smellin.
Report Post »KeystoneState
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:04pmWhy to go Jack, when logic fails, lob some insults and throw a tantrum! You sound like Alec Baldwin.
Report Post »TeaPartyGoth97
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:27pmJack of hearts is not a troll. He is just slightly less paranoid. Frankly I don’t care. Occupydamedia is a troll.
Report Post »Serge
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:41pmIf they follow through and build this monstrosity, we should withdraw all our troops and foreign aid to this ungrateful pack of whiners.
Report Post »PlowMan
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:41pmYou guys that don’t think it looks like the twin towers. Why on earth would they position them off set from each other? The simple remidy would be to put them side by side. Then you remove all the questions of if they do or do not look like the twin towers. I think it is neat when you see what it looks like from the inside & what is on top (geen space) though.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:46pmCreative design with bad taste. Add several towers with varying heights may change opinions.
Report Post »Arlundee
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:53pmPersonally I think the design is tacky, despite the similarities. I do have to question the architects motives with his design. How could he possibly have ignored that? Did he really think people wouldn’t immediately think of 9/11? Its like a knee-jerk reaction.
Sure, I know what the building is, what its meant for. But for people posting stuff like “aannndd, what’s the problem?” … would you live or work in a building that was built to look like a swastika? Or a building that depicted Hiroshima getting blown off the map?
Regardless of your answer, I still think its flat out tacky. But that’s just my 2 cents.
Report Post »bioengineer
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:41pmI guess someone forgot to tell people in South Korea that world revolves around the USA and 9/11…
Report Post »NES
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:45pmI’ve lived in South Korea a couple of times for a total of 5 years, worked in South Korea for Samsung, have been married to a Korean woman for 15 years, and am fluent in Korean. I’m about 99% sure, knowing what I know of Koreans, that this was not intentionally made to represent 9/11. The culture takes death very seriously and doesn’t make light of it. I’m not saying this out of bias since I have more of a love/hate relationship (more on the hate side as of late) with Korea, and I especially hated the toxic, overly aggressive business culture there. If this were North Korea or China, then I’d be 99% sure it’s a representation of 9/11. The only people hateful enough in South Korea to make an intentional representation of 9/11 are the leftists: violent protesters and union thugs that are the puppets of the North. However, unlike America, the South Korean left have not taken significant hold over executive positions in corporations, so the building contractor and architect firm were not likely doing this intentionally.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:47pmThe percentage of Muslims in South Korea is estimated at about .1% There is NO WAY this is in any way related to Islam.
Aside from that, the fact that you still think 9/11 is representative of all of Islam shows how ignorant you are.
Aside from THAT, the fact that you believe the entire world shares the America perspective on life is telling of your global ignorance. Things that “resemble” icons in American culture are not symbolic of those same things in every other country. In other words, you see the Twin Towers because that image is engrained in your mind. South Korea does not see that because, like the majority of the world that wasn’t directly affected by it, they have moved on. Thus, they see two buildings reaching beyond the clouds.
You all act like little school kids that they think everyone is talking about them. The entire world does not revolve around YOU or America.
Get over yourself.
Report Post »NES
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:49pmFurthermore, I can‘t imagine South Koreans wanting to live in an apartment that looks like it’s in collapsing buildings. That would be the all-time dumbest marketing move ever, especially in South Korea.
Report Post »NES
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:00pm@GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
Your nutty inside job theory was debunked soon after it came out:
Debunking the 9/11 Myths: Special Report
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/1227842
World Trade Center 7 Report Puts 9/11 Conspiracy Theory to Rest
Report Post »http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/architecture/4278874
annelouisegelinas
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:02pmLike to see what happens during a real storm, tornado, earthquake or whatever. As far as contruction goes they should make sure they won’t be the cause of another disaster if those buildings
Report Post »to down.
hayesstephen
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:40pmI think this may be much ado about nothing. Yes it somewhat resembles the WTC, but I think it has no political or anti-U.S.A statement to it.
Report Post »I know I wouldn’t live suspended in mid air like that!!! I have got to have my feet on the ground, thank you very much.
piper60
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:45pmThese people always feign ignorance of problems with perception afterwards. I’d say they KNEW that others would see the 9/11 towers, and the submitted the design anyway. You notice——–the design GOT APPROVED.
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:46pmUh Oh. Better shut down the Macy’s parade… those huge balloons between skyscrapers makes some people think of 9/11.
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:48pmTRUMP… Imagine all that unused real estate just waiting to be bought!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Mickyb
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:52pm“My” issue is, why has so much time passed, that we don’t already have the twin towers back up taller and stronger than what they were. I also feel that this design, in this location, is in very poor taste. It “does” look like the twin towers are exploding. Just like on that horrific day. I can‘t believe that this was even a thought in someone’s mind, and in their mind, this design was ok. I see that they did apologize, but I do hope they do not go through with it at that location. Disclaimer: one persons opinion
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 3:07pmthe twin towers was the first thing that i thought about. glen is right, if they build this all troops should be pulled from korea. korea has done very well with america as an ally. maybe it’s time they fought for their prosperity against the north.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 3:13pmWould make one heck of a location for an action movie!
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 3:22pmJACK of HEARTS and other spineless Anti-American dopes: WE need to BRING OUR TROOPS home from S. Korea. WE NEED TO STOP SENDING THEM ANY $. WE have bombs that can get around the world in zero minutes now…we don’t need “troops” anywhere but guarding OUR COUNTRY.
BLAZE: I want to know where the $ to build these HORRIFIC buildings. YOU GUYS THINK IT’S FUNNY??? CLEVER????? YOU are weaklings. WE do not need bases anywhere else, PULL OUR MEN/ OUR EQUIPMENT/OUR $$$ HOME. Where is the money coming from? Any American Companies? What major S. Korean companies? SO WE WON’T BUY ANY MORE OF THEIR PRODUCTS. SORRY BASTARDS. WE spend 50 years, our precious BLOOD and TREASURE and they think it’s okay to build monuments to the DEVIL? I cannot wait until that gutless wonder in the WH is removed and the world knows they’d better respect the USA or prepare to receive our wrath. THERE IS NOTHING FUNNY, CLEVER, ARTISTIC….if any of you are too stupid to see this is a royal slap in the face, then go get your heads examined. FOR TRAITORS like ROSE ELLEN: What part of DO NOT INSULT the USA, do not take our money with one hand and ridicule us with the other…what part of DECENCY/HUMANITY don’t YOU understand. NAME one place, hot shot that we’ve done anything but HELP people who have asked us to help. YOU are the most despicable type of America…you use our freedoms – fought and died for – you use them against us. SHAME ON YOU. Why are you ev
Report Post »robor
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 3:40pmAgree with Jack of Hearts, this article is totally ridiculous, someone has too much time or needs a hobby. Wonder where the “Ugly American” stuff came from? We demand you pull this affront down now!!! Look through their “projects” via the article above or Google to see their other project “TORRE HUERTA/SOCIOPOLIS” ! It has the same elements which I think are great, getting people out in the fresh air. If you have to live in concrete box, this would be the one for me.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 3:44pmEven if the intention was benign..I‘d say it’s safe to say that subliminally the designer had the twin towers in his mind when he designed it. I’m not expecting Koreans to have the same degree of solemnity for the twin towers and the 3000 that died in them as Americans have…but knowing that Kim Jong Il is right next door and your best friend is the U.S….perhaps they should rethink this one?
Report Post »Italia
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 3:45pmTO: becca_leigh who wrote:
“…what do you think would happen if we were to build an arena that resembled Hiroshima when we dropped a nuke on them??”
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Hold it! We nuked South Korea?
Basically, we build whatever we want to build here in America, regardless of whether some other countries wants to devise some sort of “consequences” for us doing so.
That said, we Americans have some class and just wouldn’t think of doing any such thing.
And then there are those who are still awe-struck by the events of that day and perhaps would like to see the twin towers come back.
Report Post »mach37
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 3:46pmJack of Hearts is blind, or otherwise does not have his eyes connected to his brain. Without knowing what was going through the minds of the architect(s) we can’t say what was intentional and what was not, but to me it looks exactly like a depiction of the WTC/9-11 event, as much as economical building methods allow.
Report Post »mach37
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 3:47pmAdd to my comment: just how coincidental could it be that the two main tower structures are placed in exactly the same relationship to each other as the WTC towers were?
Report Post »jgsr
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 3:50pmRick Perry won’t get the nomination, but I hope someone picks up his stance on Foreign Aid…..don’t give money to ANY Country that shows us disrespect and refuses to give back in friendship.
Report Post »Disaster relief should not be lumped into the category of Foreign Aid.
America has ALWAYS helped other Countries when those Countries experience disasters….and I hope we always will do that.
We send BILLIONS in “Foreign Aid” to SKorea EVERY year…
We have every right to expect respect be shown to us….every right.
TimH
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 4:09pmSouth Korea is (maybe was) the most Christian nation on the planet, per capita. They are under the same attack as us. “Powers and principalities” of evil will do what they do to attack Christian strong holds every where. Pray for our Christian brothers and sisters in South Korea that their struggle with evil will not allow a disciple of the atheist Karl Marx to be elected as their chief executive.
http://www.BornAgainHeathens.com
Report Post »McCoveyfan
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 4:10pmWhy would Koreans do that? Their president is an Evangelical
Report Post »American Destiny
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 4:32pmawsome comment MB1!
Report Post »SWING HARD
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 4:35pmTime to Bomb South Korea!
Report Post »Onlybev
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 4:42pmI think the design is very futuristic. To have your own little garden in the middle of a city would be like a little peice of heaven for some people. I like it. I also don’t think that S Korea would for any reason, spit in our eye. I will never forget 9-11, what I was doing that day, watching it on T.V, but to me this building is a beautiful design and will give many people happiness.
Report Post »Christhefarmer
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 4:55pmI want to build a building that looks like a wave. “No people have been killed by waves.” I want to build a casino that looks like a volcano. “No people died in eruptions.” The NRA wants to build their hq in a shape of a pistol when viewed from above. “No guns kill people.” I want to open a restaurant called Nuke Burger, “Where your hamburger is microwaved perfectly every time” and place a little boy replica outside. “No we nuked the Japanese.” I want to build a second Empire State building. “Your awful do you know how many people died building the first one.” I would like to build a big plantation style house. “What are you a racist, you wanna own slaves again.” I would like to own a car that looks like it’s been wreaked so when you wreak it you cant tell. “My cousin Pookey died in a car wreak.” Get the point.
Report Post »Linda2955
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:05pmwith a nice big gold dome on top
Report Post »pollyanna
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:50pmWhy wasn’t the “cloud” built throughout all the levels, save maybe the first floor, up to the top? Seems to me it would be more solid, in the event of an earthquake. When I first saw the picture of this building (before I went to work, and without time to read the article) I thought it WAS the Twin Towers. If it looks like a duck…South Korea got suckered by these architects.
Report Post »Major Infidel
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:11pmI seriously doubt there were any malice intentions from the architects of the facility.
And for the record, you are all trolls, as am I, as is anyone that actually takes time out of their day to post comments on sites like this.
Anyway, for the normal conservative folks and people lacking extreme paranoia, I found the Daily Caller to be a much better site to “troll”. The Blaze had a strong start, but when Glenn went off the religious deep end and started his everything Israel campaign, it went down hill fast.
The D.C. rocks, you’ll see.
Report Post »Carnivor
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:27pmPut down the crack pipe guys, Glen included. Anyone who’s ever spent any time in S. Korea would know they would not build something to mock our misery. They are one of the few nations, if not the only nation that wholeheartedly loves America for what she did to save them from enslavement. I‘m glad this didn’t happen while my father was still alive, since he put his @$$ on the line during the active war in Korea. Pulling bases out would be a huge loss for our military and probably mean an all-out war for our good ally. Since Obama has done all he could to destroy our relationships with the few really good allies we had, we should beat him to the punch and pull out of our last large military bases in Asia? Why not pull out of Europe too so the Russians can invade it while China takes over Asia? While we’re at it, why not nuke Canada?
Just by looking at the photo, and from the years I spent in Korea, I‘ll say this attack on their artistic design has to be the all out stupidest thing I’ve ever seen on The Blaze. If they wanted it to look like the towers under attack, it would look like the towers under attack, not a vague kind of sort of maybe if at the right angle and light, uh, STUPID!!!
While I love Glen Beck, there‘s a reason he isn’t and never will be president. And if we’re stupid enough as a nation to again elect a president who claims he will immediately pull all the troops out of anywhere, before he has all the facts known only to the president, then I
Report Post »Resolved
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 7:27pmYou know, I think it IS a beautiful design… except if you read the bottom paragraph you see that the master mind behind the ground zero designs was involved, and someone else FROM THE COMPANY WHO DESIGNED IT admitted that they thought about 9/11. I‘m not one to see things that aren’t there, but those two facts along with the design make me at best skeptical that they didn’t know what it would look like, and at worst flabbergasted that an ally of ours would allow such an obvious slap in the face.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 7:58pmThe world is mocking us!
Forget that we have pulled the worlds ass from the meat grinder at least twice in the last century. Forget the contemporary Marshal Plans we STILL fund. Forget the technology transfers. Forget bringing the worlds engineers to the US to ‘educate’ them. Forget the ‘charity’ America has given the world as a result of our productivity. Forget the engineering marvels we have provided to the world that provide water, food, energy, transportation, exploration, education, tools, automation and HOPE.
The world holds us in C-O-N-T-E-M-P-T! for our generosity and our aid. If you can’t see this you are too stupid to be part of the modern world and education eludes you.
America is under attack from every direction. Enemies, foreign AND domestic.
God love Glenn Beck. But he is NOT a fighter. He is a roll over and hope for the best conservative. He is a path of least resistance hopeful, A Lowest Common Denominator changes the world hopeful.
But, he is WRONG. The lowest common denominator has NEVER, won. Not once. Ever in history. Not ever. Not even Jesus Christ, my personal savior, has saved the world, yet.
Hope, springs eternal. Desire and lust for our future also abound. But reality and hope are two completely different things. Separate in every aspect of their interpretation and definition.
America is under attack from every direction. Get ready.
Report Post »greensteam
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:28pmif this was facebook i would share this one. instead i will copy and paste it. this was the one that turned a bad day into a good day.
KeystoneState
Report Post »Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:33am
Oh common Jack of Hearts, IndianTerritory just happened to have the word “troll” next to your name, there’s no way he had any intention of having it resemble or connect to to you.
Resolved
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:29pmI don’t know if my additional comment went through, so I’ll say it again. In addition to my first comment, I find it INCREDIBLY disconcerting that some of us feel a simple disagreement warrants accusation of being a liberal or troll. I‘m willing to bet most throwing those comments around know little to nothing about those they’re targeting outside of this forum. In regard to this story, believing the design was an accident (and Aiden Macanbhaird makes a VERY strong case for just that) doesn’t automatically spell LIBERAL. Comments like that just provide more evidence for the vitriol the left already throws at us. We’re above that, let’s try to act like it.
Report Post »brassia
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:06pm@SGTB
Report Post »Sadly I don’t see our country to have too many friends left…
As far as the building resembling the 9/11 – it is unmistakable, and the fact that the designer of the building is the original designer of the tower here in NY only adds to the suspicion of it. he knew well what he was doing!!!
I do not think ANY country should have even entertained the idea of provoking any such suspicions , no matter how minor-it is insensitive , insulting, hurtful and plain wrong.
For those Trolls who said get over it-I do hope you will get to experience a tragedy in your life and then you will enjoy hearing -get over it!
batteredyoungpatriot
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:53pmbecause then it would be waaaay too obvious of course. you cant make the effigy of a terrorist attack so obvious that people notice, GOSH! i mean it’s just a Cloud, a majestic beautiful cloud (of destruction and death). Remember when South Korea was supposed to be our friend, just like Pakistan.
Report Post »QuallaCherokee
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:05pmDisgustedAmerican, Yup that’s exactly what we need MORE people telling others what should and should not be “allowed” While you’re at it lets not allow any more Boeing 757/767′s be be built of flown.
Report Post »Or for that matter let’s just not allow any buildings over 1 story to ever be built, What the heck let’s live in your Police State where nothing gets done without a czar of feelings personal permission
Onewhocares
Posted on December 10, 2011 at 5:00amThere is no way they haven’t seen the resemblance to the Twin Towers.
Report Post »Renalden
Posted on December 10, 2011 at 5:37amSorry to reply to this mess, but all the IDIOTS saying it is not a visual effort to personify the 2011 attack are fools. To the rest of the trolls/hacks/left wing/asWipes/anitiamerican liberal tree hugger/ no self reliance for America/ communist/socialist/ gimme everything till I die/1%rapists and druggies/homeless bastion and a cool way to sell me drugs crowd, I say…aww crap….
I can’t say it and get posted, but you in the know, just say it!
dave
Report Post »Two Cents
Posted on December 10, 2011 at 6:05am@Aidan Macanbhaird I enjoyed reading your comments. I’d like to add that even if the cloud intentionally represents the bombing of the Twin Towers, the designers have nothing to apologize for. I can’t think of a better way to thumb our nose at the destroyers than to turn a horrifying image they created into a peaceful, light-filled garden in the sky. The best revenge is good living.
Report Post »miling30
Posted on December 10, 2011 at 11:47amDid anyone actually go to the designer’s website? If you open the page for this particular building, the first thing they say is that they apologize for any WTC similarities and did not intend for that to happen. Also, this is South Korea, really, how many people actually know/remember the WTC incident? And even if they did, Skyscrapers aren’t exactly cheap. I find it hard to believe anyone would spend millions of dollars building towers for the sole purpose of mocking the U.S.
Report Post »Beerbear
Posted on December 10, 2011 at 3:23pmBecause South Korea has so many mohammedans. Yep. Totally… Wait, no, it doesn’t. They have less mohammedans than the US. Gee, I wonder why, maybe because their immigration laws make sense!
Report Post »the_truth_or_not
Posted on December 10, 2011 at 4:47pmAbout Jack
I happen to agree with him. Yes at first glance, these towers do bear a slight resemblence of that horrible day. Unless you could show me proof that the architect had malitious intent, I say It is odd, strange, a acrophobes worst night mare. I marvel at the architecture that allows for this ‘cloud’ to stay suspended. This building is the product of a very learned designer. Thats to say if it dont fall down due to its abnormality. I think I like this interesting structure.
Report Post »Ilovenh1
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 4:25pmIt is rather obviously insensitive isn’t it ?
Report Post »Courtjester19500
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:33amI’m seeing a lot of offense taken on both sides here. And the offense on both sides is nothing short of STUPID. There’s NOTHING ANYWHERE that says we are to be protected from offense.
Yes the building looks like the Twin Towers immediately after 9/11. Get over it. I don’t like the idea; I’m offended that someone would design a building that looks like that. BUT: The argument that it shouldn’t be built because it offends us is as bad as the Athiests who claim the Nativity scenes offend them, so we shouldn’t have them.
The ONLY reasons the building shouldn‘t be built is if the South Korean people don’t want it; it would cost more than the budget allotted to the building; it’s structurally unsound. If these reasons aren’t met, then they should build the building, and we should SHUT UP about it!
Remember: There is NOTHING that says we are protected from being offended. I am offended that the Atheists want to put up a banner with the nativity scene in California saying “Religion is a Myth”. That is their right. (BTW, atheism IS a religion…)
Those of you who are offended that they might build this building, GET OVER IT. Those of you who are offended at those who are offended, GET OVER IT.
In the words of Tiny Tim, “God Bless .. Everyone.”
Gingrich/Cain 2012 TEA!
Report Post »blazingaway
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:10amWho the f cares .. Get over it move on
Report Post ».the terrorist have and are looking for the next target
caleejr
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:43am“get over it” ???
Report Post »GodblessGlennBeck
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:47amI wonder if your response would be the same had your significant other or child had been inside the Twin Towers that day.
Report Post »caveman74
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:34amGet over it??? We nuked a country for less. I think we have been rather reserved and forgiving for 9/11 dont you?
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:06am@Caveman74: Wait! We’ve nuked countries for less, really? I don’t remember that ever happening can you clarify your statement or tell us the date that happened?
Report Post »Ares922
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:12amI agree it happened over 10 years ago now, move on. And besides South Korea had nothing to do with 9/11 so why does it matter what they build. Its not like we get pissed when people make airplanes because it reminds us of pearl harbor. This building has a cool concept of being a high rise in the clouds. I am sure this designer didn’t sit down and go alright lets build a building in South Korea just for the soul purpose of ******* off middle class Americans.
Report Post »PessimisticallyOptimistic
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:48amYeah tell the Pearl Harbor survivors to get over it.
Report Post »Zorro6821
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:59pmCool Design…Yes it is a conspiracy theory…hide, be spooked. Move on folks
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 4:52pmNo one ever died so that we could be free. Our freedom has never been threatened by anyone.Keep telling yourselves that to rationalize the mass murder of countless men women and children by you americans all over the world.No one owes you anything [and ww2 was won by the russians ].The reality is that the people of the world though they like our entertainment and technology-are not beholden to us and are free to think and do as they please. You bullys have become the worlds ddictators and people are defying you at every turn. As well they should.Why do you care? Wrap yourselves around your exceptional view of yourselves and leave the people of the world alone.The arab uprisings, China, The EU ,they’re all acting in spite of you not because of you. Since you believe you’re better and different then all human beings on the earth that ever existed-why do you care? What a bunch of jingoistic thin skinned whiners!.It’s my right as a free human being to be anti-american as it is everyones right. How one could be ethical and have a consciounce and not be anti-american is the question?
Report Post »Resolved
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:57pmRose-Ellen, You can argue till you’re blue in the face about whatever harm the US does abroad, but no country in the world has spilled more of its own blood for foreign nations than the United States of America. Furthermore, while the possibility exists that the Russians COULD have won the war on their own, they contributed neither air nor sea power to the fight. The fight in the air in particular was crucial to Russia’s fight on the Eastern Front, as it deprived the Nazis of their line of supplies and fuel. Russia would have been much worse off and spent years, perhaps even decades longer fighting if not for the intervention of the USA. If you’d like to contend that it was a joint effort, that’s acceptable if contestable, but to call the Soviets the principle force in the defeat of Nazi Germany, I think, is a bit rich.
Report Post »Resolved
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:23pmContinued: Contest recent history all you want, but the Revolutionary War was bloody, and every drop spilled by patriotic colonials was in the name of our freedom. And if you think for a second that those Allied soldiers that fell in WWII didn’t die protecting freedom (regardless of who you think ultimately did more to win it), then you’re sorely mistaken. My family has a solid military history, and I’m a proud member of the United States Air Force. I’m not generally called upon to fight, but I have friends and family who are, and for you to sully the sacrifice that has been and is still being made by our men and women in uniform with such vitriol… well you might as well be spitting on the graves of the dead and in the eyes of the living. That might be okay to you, but remember, my family – countless American families – paid in blood for the right you have to spout that kind of nonsense. I humbly recommend you not take it for granted, it doesn’t exist everywhere.
Report Post »Beerbear
Posted on December 10, 2011 at 3:29pm@PessimisticallyOptimistic
Pearl Harbor survivors get over it already. There, I did it. Pearl Harbor was a legitimate target, unlike the residential areas in Japan, which were hit with firebombs with the goal of killing as many women and children as possible. That’s a simple fact. And after the war was over, your “brave” American GIs raped thousands of Japanese women. That, too, is a fact. The Aussies have owned up to it, but America is still covering it up.
So what if there was no declaration of war from Japan? Those niceties are stupid and unreasonable. Get the heck over it already America. It’s been 70 years, how long will you continue to whine about being caught with your pants down because the entire country turned two blind eyes towards the development in imperial Japan?
Anyone paying attention to what happend in Japan would have seen this coming for years. That is a simple fact, but most American “historians” ignore it, because the dolts can‘t read Japanese and thus can’t use the Japanese sources. Take an elementary school book from Japan in, let’s say, 1937, and you find plenty of propaganda against the west (most notably the “ABCD encirclement”, which was “strangling” Japan, ABCD stands for America, Britain, China and the Netherlands.) The road to war was already there, but the Americans were too ignorant to see it, yet they still whine about it.
Stupid.
Report Post »lostspot4
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:07amI was station in South Korea and watched the attack from my barracks room. I traveled all over South Korea on public transportation. Most Koreans love America. I thing the 9-11 similarities are a coincidence.
Report Post »jay1975
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:41amI was in Yongsan on 9/11, which camp were you on?
Report Post »ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:00amI’ve never been to South Korea but I completely agree with you.
Report Post »postman06
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 7:42ami was also in South Korea on 9/11, i was at Camp Casey.. 1/15 fa
Report Post »USArmyVet
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:40amI was stationed in South Korea from 1998 to 1999 Camp Hovey in Tongdachon next to Camp Casey Area 1. When I was there we had a base lockdown twice because of college protests of American Supposed Occupation.!would not put it past a younger architect in South Korea designing a building to achieve the level of angst it is receiving. Just like our young generations dont appreciate what our Patriarchs left for us the same in South Korea. They have no connection why we are there in the first place. I agree with another commenter, if any country wants to thumb their finger in our eye and hit us where it hurts we should hit them where it hurts in the pocket through Foreign Aid and trade. The older generation needs in this country and over there remind them who and what America is and is to be respected. Alot of the younger generation does not like us, the older generation much of them do like us. My only gripe I had when I was there was the amount of sex trafficking involved from girls from the Phillipines, Russia etc.. brought into American base towns to entertain our troops. Thats a whole other subject that needs to be addressed. All in Korea. Sexual Slavery and human trafficking are huge there involving young girls from other Asian countries coming to South Korea looking for a better way only to find themselves working in a bar with minimum wage that cant pay the bar owner off for their passage all the while pushing GI’s into buying drinks and ultimately favors. Againanothersub
Report Post »Phantom II
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:22am@Lotspot4. I spend a lot of time in Asia and have a home in Shanghai. Islam is growing in S Korea and a caliphate has had it’s presence there since the 7th century. I wouldn’t be surprised if their is a connection to 911 in this design. Heck, the government even built a mosque in Seoul. However, as an engineer, I think the design from a structural point of view is brilliant not only in it’s simplicity, but it’s cost. The most complicated architectural structure from an engineer’s perspective is The Capital Gate Tower Abu Dhabi:
Report Post »http://www.theengineer.co.uk/in-depth/analysis/tilt-to-last/1011056.article?cmpid=TE01
Incidentally, my posts are pulled off the Blaze on a regular basis. Before you post, copy your script or capture the page. My most brilliant comment was made on the Gingrich thread. It lasted a few hours. It questioned the sanity of both the interviewer and interviewee.
bethg
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:48amI agree. People are reacting as if this were North Korea! Maybe it’s time for some to pull out a 20th Century history book!
Report Post »Collegeboy
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:05amThe placement of the two towers is like that of the twin towers. The placement of the “cloud” is near the area hit on the twin towers. It is just so blatant. Cut their funding if this is allowed to be built.
Report Post »The Bryan
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:06amYup, cut their funding! Let‘s see how they like it when we don’t do a damn thing when they get invaded my N.Korea and China. EFF the bastards!
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:48amCool. An expression of autonomy and rebellion from one of the empire’s satellites.It’s not so easy to take over the world amerika is it?
Report Post »rot_soldier
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:49amHoly crap, you’re both idiots. The last country that would try and make some reference to 9/11 in a building design would be the South Koreans. It’s the stupid warmongering like you two that keeps getting the US into trouble.
Report Post »Mattsbay18
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:00amCut their funding regardless
Report Post »Johnny Cocheroo
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:03am@collegeboy,
Yes its similar. Have you visited the architect website & read up on this design before making your opinion? You do trust yet verify like what Glenn preaches right?
Its coincidence and a very cool design. Check it out with an open mind (link is above) .
Report Post »frust@ted
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:23pmThink about it you needed two builingd to do it. As for the placement of it if you put it at the bottom it would look foolish and not visible from miles away(you make a building like this so people can see it) if you put it up on the top I would think it would cost millions of dollars more to build plus it would most likely not be as stable.
People relax a little not everyhting a country or business does is because they hate America and want to mock 9/11.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:03amI hope they insure them against terrorism. I know Larry Silverstein insured his leased buldings just in the nick of time…whew…lucky him…He made 7 billion….not bad for a 100 million a year lease. He was so heartbroken by the massive loss of life that day, that he had them “pull” building 7..you know..just to make sure no one else would perish on that sad day.
Report Post »KeystoneState
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:49amWhy insure them against terrorism, its not a terror target, its a terror shrine!
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:27pmThat’s right Keystone….’cuz we all know that the scaaary Muslims attacked us that day…right?
Report Post »Workforit
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:59pmThat just hurts.
Report Post »Eleutheria
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:48pmMy mother-in-law lives in Korea and says how they have a very low opinion of Americans.
She hates America too, so she fits right in.
Report Post »RedeemedWench
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:44amHAHAHA. Sorry, the last line just tickled me. It’s the whole in-law thing.
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:43pmThis is enough to make me throw up!
Instant recognition…..
The explosive impact of the Twin Towers on 911 by Islamic Jihadis.
Report Post »mom4times
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:03ammore than instant……the only imagery that came was the twin towers smoking…..really creepy
Report Post »sodacrackers2
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:42pmAnd what a coincidence that the same architect who worked on the new twin towers design also worked on this tribute to the Islamists who killed 3,000 people on 9/11. The evil is spreading all over the world.
Report Post »HotFixIt
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:41pmTo soon, and soooo wrong.. How young is the person who designed it? Is it possible that this person is actually too young to understand? I was 10 years ago… there are people designing that were children at the time and living on the other side of the world who are really NOT as aware of things that went on here….. just giving them the benefit of the doubt… then again… a LOT of people have had the opportunity to see this and say NO!!! ….Come up with another design. ( I sure do hope this is an honest mistake)
Report Post »10th MTN DIV SCOUT
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:03amit was definitely designed by one of the OWS people
Report Post »Beerbear
Posted on December 10, 2011 at 3:33pmWell, “too soon” for Americans is apparently anything within 100 years. You’re still whining over Pearl Harbor, which was 70 years ago.
So the rest of the world has to wait until you give the okay?
How’s about no.
Report Post »ssortors
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:40pmwith these allies who needs enemies.
Report Post »meeester
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:37pmit’s not a 9/11 smack. That doesn’t sell space. It really does add diverse light and living spaces with diverse outdoor nooks and crannies, a remarkable alternative to stacks of boxes.
Report Post »Laus Deo
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:22amI think a dingo ate your brain.
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:12amI ask earlier why would they try to rub 9/11 in our face. I don’t know if they did or not. If they did why would they? There is no connection with the horrible tragity of 9/11 and S. Korea. It’s not a Moooslim country. I’m just trying to see the connection some are making. Unless I’m mistaken, I thought we were allies and friendly with each other.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:45amI agree. It doesn’t really look like 9/11. The cloud is at the middle and encompasses both buildings. From a distance, it really looks like a cloud. Only from this angle of being between and below the buildings does it resemble a cloud of smoke. I’m willing to chalk it up to an unfortunate coincidence and I imagine it will be less obvious in real life than in this rendering, which softens the contrast of light and shadow to make it look more cloud like.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:19amFrom outdoor toilet to indoor toilet.
Report Post »dsd13130
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:53amI’m also doubting that South Korea was trying to make a statement. Besides it’s in South Korea, not NYC. I’m not going to have to look at it daily. Seems kind of interesting. Not sure I’d want to live there though. It isn‘t built even and don’t you think S Korea probably doesn’t care about our outrage?
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:35pmI wonder if they’re going to rig them with explosives and take them down after they are completed.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:16amLove your humor from your fertile-mind and did recall the theory about BUSH DID IT and it does remind me of this joke:
Report Post »The guy who bought a brand-new, loaded 4×4, FORD truck (doesn’t use fossil-fuel energy outlet to KICK BUTT up a logging-road mountain trail) and he would look at his prize-possession and say, MAN, I LOVE YOU. This same guy loved his three-legged dog, Lucky (he often would tell his friends, Lucky is my arithmetic dog…..he puts down 3 and carries one), (I am a dog and cat lover so don’t attack me about the number). The guy and his dog, like most dog- owners, loved to play fetch…throw something and Lucky would bring back the something about 911 to 1 time, so the guy kept practicing fetch with his beloved dog, Lucky. One day the guy was going to use dynamite to clear an area on his remote 50 acres and Lucky grabbed the stick (dynamite) in his mouth (hey daddy, catch me if you can) and ran and stopped and dropped the stick (dynamite) and stared. The guy threw AN ACTUAL STICK to get Lucky away from the other stick (dynamite)..Lucky picks up his own stick and runs under-neath the guy’s prized truck. Much later the guy made millions of dollars making a movie, “Do all dogs go to heaven?”
Please don’t attack me…I love dogs and cats.
Starkadder
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:32pmWhat, no runway? Wimps.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:28pmit’s pure 9/11.
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:37pmnope. looks like two skyscrapers going up through a cloud.
Report Post »bry
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:15amyep, looks like two skyscrapers going up through a cloud of smoke…after being hit by two planes used as weapons by zealots that want to destroy the U.S.!
All the denilsl posted here shows a true cognitive block on what the buildings designers used as their inspiration. It is what it us. A heartless insult.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on December 10, 2011 at 2:51amURNTHILLS, yes you are correct. THis is a statement to the world. It is mocking the United States. It is saying that S Korea will abandon us to when we go down. All the countries will turn their backs on us an buddy up to the countries of power, regardless of how we have stood by them financially, with our foreign policies, and our military. Does the movie RED DAWN seem so far fetched these days?
Report Post »jank0614
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:28pmI don’t find it whimsical in any way. And as an American, having these buildings standing anywhere on earth as a permanent mocking of one of the worst days in our history is unconscionable.
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:44pmCompletely agree.
Report Post »HUNITHUNIT
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:47pmquit being so sensitive.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:28pmGee, just where I would want to live… in twin towers that remind me everyday of thousands of people who were killed in twin towers.
Report Post »TeaPartyGoth97
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:41pmSouth Korea. They wasn’t that big of an influence on them. Most of them probably don’t even see the connection. Not everyone foreign is evil. Well, the middle east is debatable, but other than that.
Report Post »AltimaZeromus
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:27pmThe headline offended me, but seeing what the towers actually are I’m no longer bothered.
Report Post »THERepublic
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:27pmIt is a sweet design buuuuut you can tell some disrespectful little puke thought it was funny.
Report Post »normbal
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:26pmDunno, works for me somehow.
Just put a big neon sign on the building that says “Remember” and call it a memorial.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:26pmUsually, architecture is appealing to the eye. This is ugly, and ill conceived.
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:33pmSays you. To me, the famed Falling Water house is a boring structure. It’s in the eye of the beholder.
Report Post »grannyrecipe
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:25amI agree. If you pretend for a second that 9/11 didn’t happen and you look at this structure you just have to say WHAT?
Report Post »Johnny Cocheroo
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:12amTell me this building isn’t recognizable around the world. Its a conversation piece, its unique its luxury. What are your suggestions of an exciting building that isn’t square and tall?
BTW – we used to build things that the world talks about, now we are becoming the spectators.
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:25pmNo doubt it is erie but why would the S. Koreans want to design something to deliberately rub 9/11 in our faces? I’m just saying. :-{
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:22pmDepends on WHO owns it, I guess…..
Report Post »LibsFIB
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:24pmPretty stupid design. We should build it in Kabul; once we exterminate those towelhead rejects of the 5th century. RON PAUL 2012!!!!
Report Post »TheCoffinMaker
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:30pmI agree, it looks creepy.
…and I’m not easily creeped out!
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:34pmum yea cause supporting Ron Paul is the quickest way to make your dream come true. lol.
Report Post »Anne G
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:43amYou are a walking contradiction. Exterminate towelheads and then back Ron Paul? Ron Paul doesn’t seem to have a problem with the terrorists. Haven’t you been listening to him? He’s just like Obama. He thinks we should play nice with them and they will leave us alone. Ron Paul is great on the economy, but certainly not with foreign affairs.
Report Post »dr pepper
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:23pmI bet they would not be happy if we left the DMZ and allowed the N. Koreans to enter the South freely! What a crock of cow patties.
Report Post »Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:25amWhen I was in the Army, I was stationed by the DMZ in South Korea for two years. This is a complete insult to every american who served in the military there. Send home the 40,000 U.S. troops in South Korea!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:36pm@Outlaw_josey_wales I agree we should pull our troops out of S.Korea,the older generation of S.Koreans are grateful to the U.S for saving them from the heathen communists.If the younger generation
Report Post »wants to experience communism I say get our troops out and they can fend for themselves.And the design of these towers is a celebration of the act of war that took place on 9/11/2001.
kcinco
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:21pmThe design gives me the creeps.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:18pmOMG! That gave me a CHILL.. looks JUST like I remember the Twin towers while burning.. ugh.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:23pmYes .. I don’t think it is a “cloud”… not like in the sky .. more like a cloud of debris from the twin towers when hit. They are mocking the killing of thousands of Americans.
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:35pmI doubt it. Looks like a pixelated cloud to me. Why was that word in parenthesis anyway?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:39amBecause that is what they are calling it .. “cloud” … now look at the exact positioniing of lthose “clouds” .. they are where the planes hit each tower ..
If they allow this to be built .. then we should pull out all funding and troops.
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