Updated 12/11/2011 03:41 PM
Firm Says Proposed Towers Not Intended To Resemble WTC Attacks
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A Dutch architectural firm is expressing regret over a design for towers in South Korea that evoke an image of the burning World Trade Center.
The rendition of the buildings appears on the website for the firm, MVRDV.
The luxury apartment towers are connected by what is described as a "pixelated cloud."
In a statement on the website, the firm apologized by saying, "It was not our intention to create an image resembling the attacks nor did we see the resemblance during the design process. We sincerely apologize to anyone whose feelings we have hurt, it was not our intention."
Still, many New Yorkers who spoke with NY1 had mixed emotions.
"I thought it was a picture of what happened. I didn't realize it was a picture of what a building would look like," said one New Yorker.
"It looks disturbing. Because it looks like the building is coming apart," said another.
"To me it doesn't look like the towers collapsing because the towers collapsed from the top down, I don't buy it, I think some people have an over-active imagination," said a third.
The firm says it has no plan to change the design.
Each tower is expected to be more than 850-feet tall.
It's slated to open in 2015.