Dutch architects apologize for 9/11 blast look-alike design

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Triumph

Lifer
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That building looks terrible, 9/11 conspiracy or not. Makes me want to vomit just looking at it.
 

Rifter

Lifer
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I did not think of 9/11 when I saw the pictures. I though it was a creative design.

Me to. People need to get their heads examined with alot of this tin foil hat crap. OMG everything is 9/11!!!!!!! My froot loops looked like the twin towers this morning in my bowl lol!!!!!!!!!
 

Exterous

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For people to claim they were replicating the 9/11 events is utterly ridiculous and is just another example of you can't make ALL the people happy ALL the time..

Honestly - given the number of architects I've known - it wouldn't suprise me at all if someone actually did have a goal of making it look like the twin tower explosions. Some of them are a bit...off :)

For a tall building, the design is unique and quite refreshing, and a nice nod to the urban designs of Moshe Safdie [edit to contribute some architectural design history].

Eh - I think its a rather poor attempt. His designs were so much more striking. Either they all conformed to a unique structural design or there was a single striking element interwoven/linked to a base structure. You could argue that the latter is somewhat the case but if you look at Moshe's designs I am not aware of any that would be joined to a rather boring tower.

(While its a bit hard to tell they look like your normal everyday boring rectangles)

Edit: Damn I am spending too much time thinking how I would tweak their design....
 
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matt0611

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They should not have apologized, they did nothing wrong.

Fuck this overly sensitive politically-correct world.
 

waggy

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its ugly. While i think his idea was great how it came out was bad.

Yes it does look like the towers on 9/11 but i also agree the US needs to get over it. at the same time designers need to think a little before they do something.