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  1. Somehow I’d missed the sustainability/eco-luxury angle to this controversy. The ethics of Twin Towers imagery is an interesting issue. Take, for example, the erasure of the Towers from movies filmed before 9/11. Is it better to erase history to avoid sparking emotional reactions, or is doing so akin to the politically motivated photo-disappearances in, say, Stalin’s Russia?  That, at least, is the deep philosophical question that kept coming to mind a couple weeks ago I was watching the Towers-redacted version of The Muppets Take Manhattan. mothernaturenetwork: Sustainable architecture firm issues apology for WTC-esque designDutch architecture firm MVRDV issues a public apology after ‘The Cloud,’ a proposed eco-luxury development designed for South Korea’s Yongsan Dreamhub complex, reminds many of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.

    Somehow I’d missed the sustainability/eco-luxury angle to this controversy.

    The ethics of Twin Towers imagery is an interesting issue. Take, for example, the erasure of the Towers from movies filmed before 9/11. Is it better to erase history to avoid sparking emotional reactions, or is doing so akin to the politically motivated photo-disappearances in, say, Stalin’s Russia? 

    That, at least, is the deep philosophical question that kept coming to mind a couple weeks ago I was watching the Towers-redacted version of The Muppets Take Manhattan.

    mothernaturenetwork:

    Sustainable architecture firm issues apology for WTC-esque design
    Dutch architecture firm MVRDV issues a public apology after ‘The Cloud,’ a proposed eco-luxury development designed for South Korea’s Yongsan Dreamhub complex, reminds many of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.

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        Somehow I’d missed the sustainability/eco-luxury angle to this controversy. The ethics of Twin Towers imagery is an...
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        Seriously? What was this architect thinking as he was creating this. Did he not realize
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        Stop getting pissed off over this kinda...stuff and stop demanding apologies like it’s...
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        I love this building.
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      18. danaforce said: Last time I checked, South Korea was a different country. What makes any single American think we have any right to tell them how to do something in their own country. “The US does not bow to foreign interest, we make our own decisions” -George Bush.
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      21. mystonerlife said: That’s actually what I thought it was when I scrolled down.