Pop Disney
2:02pm Thursday, 1st April 2004
From Main Street USA in the Magic Kingdom to Epcot to Celebration, the Disney Corporation has, since the 1950's, been something of the dark prince of american urbanism and architecture. While Washington was building the interstate, Annaheim was toying with monorails. While developers earned concessions to let sprawl sprawl, Michael Eisner was pioneering a meticulous small town 'new urban' pantomine.
So love it or loathe it, Disney has become a kind of advance radar for architectural trends, with the cash and the vision to build without compromise.
Their latest addition is the Disney Pop Century Resort, an architectural romp through the buzzy best of 20th century Americana. Supersized cans of Play-Do vie with towering Fussball figures, while buildings scream Be-Bop and Jazz...
It's all music, however misunderstood, to Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi who wrote Learning From Las Vegas and they weigh in with a review in the latest edition of Metropolis.
View the Disney Pop Century Resort here
From Main Street USA in the Magic Kingdom to Epcot to Celebration, the Disney Corporation has, since the 1950's, been something of the dark prince of american urbanism and architecture. While Washington was building the interstate, Annaheim was toying with monorails. While developers earned concessions to let sprawl sprawl, Michael Eisner was pioneering a meticulous small town 'new urban' pantomine.
So love it or loathe it, Disney has become a kind of advance radar for architectural trends, with the cash and the vision to build without compromise.
Their latest addition is the Disney Pop Century Resort, an architectural romp through the buzzy best of 20th century Americana. Supersized cans of Play-Do vie with towering Fussball figures, while buildings scream Be-Bop and Jazz...
It's all music, however misunderstood, to Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi who wrote Learning From Las Vegas and they weigh in with a review in the latest edition of Metropolis.
View the Disney Pop Century Resort here
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