Dutch Architecture Firm Under Fire for 9/11 Perceptions of Its South Korean Towers

It’s been an awkward, uncomfortable weekend for the Dutch architectural firm MVRDV. On Friday, the newspaper Algemeen Dagblad put on its front page a rendering of a project the firm is working on called The Cloud in South Korea, which is part of a larger Daniel Libeskind-planned development. The two skyscrapers stops halfway up in its familiar long, rectangle form, to bloom out into cubes jutting at disjointed angles that connect the two buildings, ultimately smoothing back out and continuing back to the usual skyscraper straight lines.