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I am utterly outraged by this highly offensive new building proposal by MVRDV to be built in Seoul, Korea.

They are a well known architecture firm from the Netherlands and I actually liked them because they do some fun buildings… I think there a tower rendering with a pig in the middle…supposedly there’s a farm in the middle of the building. Anyways.

So MVRDV claims that the cluster in the middle is a “cloud”.. yeah bullsh!t.

Maybe if they were actually from NYC they wouldn’t have dared to do this. If they had seen, like I’ve seen this very wall standing burnt to the ground. The very same wall I had stood behind as a kid. Or if they’d smelled the smell of burning corpses, metal, rubber, and paper. If they could see the store displays barely a thing out of place but dressed in gray ashes of the dead. Then they wouldn’t  have dared. I am disgusted to associate myself with architects right now. Disgusted. Thanks to all the negative media, hopefully the building won’t be built.

I do acknowledge that the architects apologized for the similarity, but they are not planning on editing the design. Maybe they knew it would be controversial (both offensive and optimistic as an attempt to use the cloud as recreation center) but I don’t think they expected some many people to be that offended and maybe they didn’t really understand the politics and emotions this stirs up. I still highly doubt they did not intensionally design that building to look like the twin towers in a cloud of smoke though.