South Korea: Seoul Skyscraper Resembling Twin Towers Collapse
December 13th, 2011Pic at link.
Via: Bloomberg:
The design of twin skyscrapers planned for Seoul may be modified in the wake of criticism that a cloud-shaped bridge joining the buildings resembles the explosions that felled the World Trade Center towers.
MVRDV, the Dutch architecture firm that drew the plans for the towers joined at the 27th floor by a billowing cloud-shaped bridge, apologized for any affront caused by the resemblance to the fireball that sprung from the New York buildings in the Sept. 11 attacks that destroyed the twin towers.
The building designs “have been widely published in Asia and Europe without anyone noticing a resemblance,” Jan Knikker, a spokesman for the Rotterdam-based firm, said in an e-mail today. “Once the plan was published in the U.S., the controversy started.”
The design represents a cloud wrapping around the center of the skyscrapers, according to the firm’s website. The bridge connecting the towers, which are 57 and 60 stories high, would house a conference center, restaurants, swimming pools and a lounge, MVRDV said.
