Posted Dec 10, 2011, 7:00 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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SEOUL | The Cloud | 260 & 300 M | Never Built
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news...hitects-design
Quote:
Some see Twin Towers blast in architect's design
By msnbc.com staff
A Dutch architectural firm says its design for a South Korean housing complex is simply meant to convey the feeling of being in the clouds, but others see something they'd rather not remember: the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2011.
"A real media storm has started and we receive threatening emails and calls of angry people calling us Al Qaeda lovers or worse," the firm, MVRDV, posted on its Facebook page on Friday after a Dutch newspaper, the Algemeen Dagblad, published a front-page architectural rendition of the project and the headline: "Inspired by Twin Towers?"
The cloud structure is used to connect the two towers with corridors that also serve as meeting places. The complex is set to open in Seoul in 2015.
The towers are part of a bigger project, called the Yongsan Dream Hub, whose designer is Daniel Libeskind -- the master plan architect for reconstruction at New York's Ground Zero.
MVRDV
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Renderings
http://inhabitat.com/the-cloud-mvrdv...cloud-mvrdv-1/
MVRDV
http://inhabitat.com/the-cloud-mvrdv...cloud-mvrdv-1/
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