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LafayetteLady -> RE: Carefree clouds or explosions? (12/10/2011 3:43:03 PM)
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ORIGINAL: LillyBoPeep
(I believe a dick in the mouth would be a reward, but perhaps I am biased. :p)
It's just like the "national trigger point." People are very sensitive about this, but I don't think we should impose our issue on the rest of the world. I don't believe it's built to invoke 9/11, and I like the concept.
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ORIGINAL: slaveluci
To me, saying that design is about 9/11 is just one more example of Americans making everything about them. Who knew the earth doesn't revolve around us?[:'(]
luci
I agree, 100% -- it's being built by a Dutch company in South Korea -- it really has nothing ot do with us.
Actually the main reason it is so newsworthy is because that Dutch architect, Danieal Libeskind, is the master plan architect for reconstruction at New York City's Ground Zero site. So, like it or not, there IS a connection between the two.
Some may want to minimize the US's impact on the world, but even with all the economic problems, the US does remain a superpower. Nearly every developed country relies on us for import or export. September 11th was a disaster that rung around the world, with pictures of those towers in EVERY newscast, much like Japan's tsunami, the earthquake in Haiti and every other major event. The difference was that 9/11 was not a natural disaster, but a terrorist attack. Something all those other countries fear having happen in their major cities (and many who have experienced it in years past).
I don't believe we should be televising the names year after year, holding "anniversary" celebrations or even build new taller towers on the site. I believe it is an important part of history, but it is still history.
However, there is a very blatent connection here that people are ignoring here. As the master plan architect, Libeskind no doubt had seen countless images of the original towers as well as the "in the moment" pictures, since the idea was that the reconstruction should be an inspiration derived from that attack.
It's funny how people mention in the article, "this does not mean that nobody can build two similar rectangle shaped buildings (I hear those are quite the fad in architecture) anymore." It isn't simply two ridiculously tall buildings side by side. These buildings have a "corridor" that spans between them very close to the height the planes it, and those corridors are designed to look like "clouds," but do look very much like the explosions that occured.
I think when you consider how the architect is involved in both products, it is very suspect.
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