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Author:  FarSky [ Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Design for a new Korean set of skyscrapers
W...T...F...

Designfail.

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New Twin Towers Unveiled as World’s Jaw Hits Floor
"AAAAAGH! YOU HAVE ERECTED A TERRIFYING MONUMENT TO THE NIGHTMARES OF 9/11!!!" was probably not the reaction that Seoul-based Yongsan Dream Hub corporation had in mind when they unveiled their plans today for an ambitious new construction project: Two high-rises connected by a "pixelated cloud" structure that, tragically, calls to mind the kinds of images you don't really want to call to mind when looking at a new set of twin towers. The design is by Dutch architectural firm MVRDV, who seemingly had no ill will when they envisioned the cloud as a kind of oasis in the sky, with "a large connecting atrium, a wellness centre, conference centre, fitness studio, various pools, restaurants and cafes." (Rendering here.) Actually, now that I've sat with it for a little while, a floating sauna inside a pixelated cloud sounds pretty relaxing — the kind of place Mario and Luigi might go to unwind after a hard day...

Nope, nope, still looks like 9/11.


http://gawker.com/5866748/
Author:  Rynar [ Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:49 pm ]
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I... I don't know what to say...
Author:  Mookhow [ Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Design for a new Korean set of skyscrapers
It looks rather dumb, but the WTC wasn't what initially came to mind when I saw it.
Author:  shuyung [ Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:22 pm ]
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Surprise! We're not the center of the universe!
Author:  FarSky [ Fri Dec 09, 2011 5:48 pm ]
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Culturally, 9/11 is irrelevant to other countries. That doesn't change the fact that it looks like the freaking towers are exploding. :P
Author:  deadman1204 [ Sun Dec 11, 2011 2:53 pm ]
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i think its a leap to see 911
not what I thought of at first. people need to calm down
Author:  Diamondeye [ Sun Dec 11, 2011 7:28 pm ]
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shuyung wrote:
Surprise! We're not the center of the universe!


On the contrary, if Korea had had a couple of large skyscrapers destroyed by North Korea and we were building a new pair that looked like that one, we'd quickly discover we are the center of the universe. You're basically half right. We're not the center of the universe if something is offensive to us, we are if it's offensive to someone else.

That said, it's clearly not an intentional allusion to 9/11 and the resemblance isn't that strong... but it's there. It looks stupid to boot.
Author:  Nevandal [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:32 am ]
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There's plenty of reason to hate the design of the towers, and none of them have anything to do with 9/11,
Author:  Oonagh [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:03 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Design for a new Korean set of skyscrapers
I didn't think of 9/11 at first, my thought was a structure built in that manner looks like it is not structural sound. I mean given where it is placed I hope that the understories are built with enough reinforcement to hold something like that. Not that I know anything about architecture and engineering but I think I would be afraid of those buildings.
Author:  Arathain Kelvar [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:25 am ]
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I immediately thought of 9/11.
Author:  Nevandal [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:29 am ]
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Arathain Kelvar wrote:
I immediately thought of 9/11.



Well, it's presented to you right next to a picture of the 9/11 disaster.


So you can't really say if you would've thought "9/11" if it weren't right next to it.
Author:  Vindicarre [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:32 am ]
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Arathain Kelvar wrote:
I immediately thought of 9/11.


I thought it was a lego model of 9-11.
Author:  Arathain Kelvar [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:04 pm ]
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Nevandal wrote:
Arathain Kelvar wrote:
I immediately thought of 9/11.


So you can't really say if you would've thought "9/11" if it weren't right next to it.


Oh, I'm pretty comfortable saying that.
Author:  Dash [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:27 pm ]
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Not to be obnoxious, but I'm not quite sure how you can not see the towers there and live in this country. I dont think it was intentional, but uh, yeah.

Now I'm sure if I designed a building that looked like BoXer losing a Starcraft match to an American, it would get a similar reaction in Korea.
Author:  Kaffis Mark V [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:34 pm ]
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Dash wrote:
Now I'm sure if I designed a building that looked like BoXer losing a Starcraft match to an American, it would get a similar reaction in Korea.

ALOL.

To be fair, it's the Dutch who designed this thing.
Author:  Hopwin [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:40 pm ]
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deadman1204 wrote:
i think its a leap to see 911
not what I thought of at first. people need to calm down

This. My first thought was that it would be cool to live in one of the jutting out apartments. My second was that it would suck to live in one of the apartments directly under the ones that jut out.

/edit my third is that doesn't look like the WTC exploding and my fourth is LOL that Asian woman they photoshopped in is looking at the sky away from the tower.
Author:  RangerDave [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:29 pm ]
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I'm with Dash. I find it shocking that anyone wouldn't think of 9/11; in particular, the moment when the second plane hit:

Spoiler:
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First thing I thought of when I saw the pic of that building design, before I saw any text referencing 9/11.
Author:  Corolinth [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:47 pm ]
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Any pair of skyscrapers is going to resemble the Twin Towers because there's two skyscrapers right next to one another. Does that mean it looks like 9/11? No, it just means there's two skyscrapers right next to one another.

They're connected together by something that looks like an explosion. Does that mean it looks like 9/11? Take a look at the 9/11 picture again. That explosion isn't connecting the towers. It's just one tower blowing up.

Really, all you've got is "two skyscrapers" and "looks like an explosion." For some people, I'm sure that's enough. I see what you're seeing. I understand how you got from point A to point B, but no they really don't look the same. One looks like a plane crash, and the other looks like a pair of buildings vomiting up a Super Mario level.
Author:  Diamondeye [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:56 pm ]
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Clearly, they do not look exactly the same. Stylisticly, there is a definite resemblance.
Author:  Vindicarre [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Design for a new Korean set of skyscrapers
Corolinth wrote:
Any pair of skyscrapers is going to resemble the Twin Towers because there's two skyscrapers right next to one another. Does that mean it looks like 9/11? No, it just means there's two skyscrapers right next to one another.

They're connected together by something that looks like an explosion. Does that mean it looks like 9/11? Take a look at the 9/11 picture again. That explosion isn't connecting the towers. It's just one tower blowing up.

Really, all you've got is "two skyscrapers" and "looks like an explosion." For some people, I'm sure that's enough. I see what you're seeing. I understand how you got from point A to point B, but no they really don't look the same. One looks like a plane crash, and the other looks like a pair of buildings vomiting up a Super Mario level.


RangerDave wrote:
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Author:  Mookhow [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:08 pm ]
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I cropped out everything but the skyscrapers, and I asked a couple of random people in my office for their first impression. They both mentioned 9/11. It was a small sample size, though.
Author:  Kaffis Mark V [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:29 pm ]
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Mookhow wrote:
I cropped out everything but the skyscrapers, and I asked a couple of random people in my office for their first impression. They both mentioned 9/11. It was a small sample size, though.

And Amero-centric.
Author:  Taskiss [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:34 pm ]
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9/11 in leggo land.
Author:  Corolinth [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Design for a new Korean set of skyscrapers
I'm not saying there aren't similarities, I'm saying they don't look the same. It's sort of like how my brother and I share similarities, but we don't look the same. People look at us and recognize that we're blood relatives. Nobody would mistake one of us for the other, unless my brother was shot in a brutal car-jacking and my mother went mad with grief.

That's what's going on here. There are two skyscrapers next to one another. That alone calls to mind the Twin Towers. It's sort of like how any clock tower looks like Big Ben, and any tower with a monkey looks like the Empire State Building. That's all the further this resemblance goes. That thing between the towers looks like silly video game **** rather than an explosion. I see the same similarities that you guys are seeing, but that's only because I was watching the news the morning those planes hit the Twin Towers.

To take this a step further, let's address the assertion that everyone must see 9/11 in this skyscraper design, and it's incomprehensible that anyone else would not. This is indicative of a culture who has taken, "Never forget!" to an unhealthy level.

We recently passed the 60th anniversary of another day of infamy that will live in the hearts of American citizens forever, but I never once heard my grandfather comment that the sight of a wrecked ship conjured painful memories of Pearl Harbor. Instead we have the USS Missouri parked in Pearl Harbor with its cannons pointing out over the wreckage of the USS Arizona. What have we done with the rubble of the World Trade Center besides cry about it for ten years?
Author:  Vindicarre [ Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Design for a new Korean set of skyscrapers
Corolinth wrote:
To take this a step further, let's address the assertion that everyone must see 9/11 in this skyscraper design, and it's incomprehensible that anyone else would not. This is indicative of a culture who has taken, "Never forget!" to an unhealthy level.


I've not seen that assertion made.
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