"City In The Clouds" or A Bad Memory?

[MA-Caver]

Looking at concept drawings of the building(s), if not for iconic images of 9/11 burned into our brains by relentless media exposure, I'd say it's a pretty design and unique.

<snip>"MVRDV regrets deeply any connotations The Cloud project evokes regarding 9/11, it was not our intention," MVRDV added. "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.

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_new...me-see-twin-towers-blast-in-architects-design

He, the architect, might want to re-think the idea of a "cloud city" and find perhaps another way to convey the idea. The memory is far too close still even after all these years.

What do you think?
Was he being insensitive, thoughtless or careless in his design?

 

[granfire]

Hmm

I just fund the design impractical, not to say ugly.

But I also find too many people are too easily offended about too many things.

 

[Big Don]

As a rule, you don't see that many right angles on clouds.

 

[granfire]

Unless you play Mine Craft....