No wonder the fundie Muslims were pissed--the WTC complex was apparently patterned after the Grand Mosque of Mecca! And no, this ain't the Onion.

http://www.slate.com/id/2060207

This is old news.
Glad you're getting up to speed.

What is considered Islamic design was created from pre-Islamic Egyptian, Persian, and Byzantine architecture.

BTW, there is absolutely no reason or excuse that justifies the terrorist acts committed against the WTC.

There is "motivation," which is one of the ways you can both solve a crime and help make it more difficult to repeat.

Then there is "bigotry," which involves scapegoating an entire class of people.

There is no excuse. But there was certainly a reason that justified the attacks in the minds of the people who perpetrated them.

Oh, and BTW, I'm sure the architect, who spent all that time before and after designing the WTC working on Saudi projects, was thinking the whole time "cool, I'll introduce some pre-Islamic elements into this."

Or perhaps he was just influenced by the

Islamic architecture

all around him during that other work. Which he was performing for Muslims. Who are also what is known as

Islamic.

"The architect", Minoru Yamasaki, a Seattle native who also designed Seattle's Pacific Science Center, Puget Sound Plaza, and the IBM building, was heavily influenced by French architect LeCorbusier; Gothic and Indian architecture.

What was he thinking?

First of all, he was thinking of designing a romantic modernistic high rise of beauty.
Then he was thinking he would design narrow vertical windows due to his acrophobia.
Then he was thinking how to accomplish it structurally.

Ironically, he was thinking:




Why don't you actually research that which you attempt to babble about?

RTFA, idiot.

Beavis, I will try to type slowly so you will have a better chance of comprehending. The architecture used in building mosques was used in ancient Greek and Roman and Indian architecture long before little Muhammad set foot on earth. Neither Muhammad, Islam, nor Yamasaki created the original.

Btw, you might want to check the definition of "mecca".
And what do the arcades in Mecca's courtyard remind you of?

Crosses were around before Jesus, too. I guess the cross on a building is no guarantee of any connection to Christianity, then. Thanks for the tip.

The Christian cross is neither architectural building design,
nor is it used in my Christian church as a symbol.

Maybe not in your church, however, the cruciform or cross-shaped church has been rather common in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches and is considered an architectural style.

Amiens Cathedral, Notre-Dame de Paris, and the cathedrals in Canterbury and Salisbury are cruciform, as just a few famous examples. Some have transept arms too short to show on the outside of the building but they still have the basic cruciform shape.

Granted, this style is not often used in modern churches. However, the Parish Church of St. Patrick was rebuilt in the cruciform shape as early as the late 1800's. St. Stephen Catholic Church in Glenwood Springs was built in the 1940's in the cruciform design.

Anyway, there are numerous other examples, both old and newer, although it was more common during Medieval and Renaissance times. And it is, indeed, an architectural style.