John Rosenthal at Weekly Standard has the story of a Dutch design firm that is planning to build two residential towers that look like the World Trade Centers in mid-collapse:

John writes:

The designers of the towers, Dutch architectural firm MVRDV, have responded to the controversy by quickly publishing an apology in English. "It was not our intention to create an image resembling the attacks," the designers insist, "nor did we see the resemblance during the design process."

They did not see the resemblance during the design process? The problem with this assertion - apart from its inherent implausibility - is that they have admitted the contrary in Dutch. Thus Jan Knikker of MVRDV told the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, "I have to admit that we also thought of the 9/11 attacks."

Moreover, given the context, the MVRDV architects could hardly have not thought of the 9/11 attacks. The residential towers, after all, are supposed to be built at the entrance to the so-called Yongsan Dream Hub: a complex of business towers that has been designed by none other than Daniel Libeskind, the designer of the original "master plan" for the reconstruction of Ground Zero. Indeed, as the below image from Studio Daniel Libeskind makes clear, Libeskind's Yongsan Dreamhub "master plan" closely resembles his original "master plan" for lower Manhattan.

Pretty amazing - and disgusting.