i guess a lot of people were reminded of the world trade center towers exploding. MVRDV responded on facebook saying:
A real media storm has started and we receive threatening emails and calls of angry people calling us Al Qaeda lovers or worse.
MVRDV regrets deeply any connotations The Cloud projects evokes regarding 9/11, it was not our intention.
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, the design was not meant to provoke this.
The design inspiration of The Cloud is visualised in the image here. (via)ooooooooooooops!
it's really too bad it looks like 9/11, because it's kind of cool otherwise.
3 comments:
how was that never brought up in a design meeting? they were really blind sided by this?? Like Sandra Bullock?
here's a tip for all you architects:
you can't make anything that involves twin rectangular towers. especially if the middle looks like it's exploding.
noted.
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