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If you'd like me to... IMO, the Skyliner mars every vista it enters. It reminds me of ubiquitous high-power lines, boardwalk skyways or ski mountain gondolas... ugly but necessary stuff we experience regularly in normal life. Imagine each of the below views if the Skyliner didn't exist...

God, no. I was anti-Skyliner from the day it was announced and like it much less since it has opened. I find its wires & towers to be an eyesore (I felt the same way about the Skyway in MK), it kills once-carefully-considered scale & vistas (see world showcase). On the other hand, Boats &...

A bit of imagery of World's Fair/Expo areas that would recreate far-flung places or lost to history... the roots of EPCOT's World Showcase. Some were more ambitious - a century ago - than modern theme parks in the scale & detail of the environments created (see the full & exacting replica...

It goes without saying that EPCOT Center has always been a completely different (and better, IMO) entity than Walt Disney's EPCOT, the planned city. The defense that "it doesn't matter what happens to EPCOT Center because it was never Walt's EPCOT" irks me. I'm very glad we got EPCOT Center...

Every construction photo posted of this area recently has been impressive & promising - for me, that's rare. While a monumental facade like this ought to be housing a Splash Mountain-level ride for Frozen, I'm more optimistic about this area (as a well-integrated environment) than any other...

Yes. Riviera is another one that could have been a great building if the right hands (design & executive leadership) were involved, but like my analogy above, Riviera feels like a typical modern marriott with some quarter-arsed "french beux-arts" elements ineptly tacked on. I pray the...

^I will grant you that what is seen in the photos I posted are not the "Money Views" of the hotel - and as such they look particularly bad because of the blank walls - BUT this nearly-finished exterior treatment (towers, spires, windows, swirlies, material/surface texture and general level of...

I still have high expectations for this land (when you're looking away from the hotel), but one has to call a spade a spade. Sadly, my worst fears about the design & execution of the hotel are coming to fruition: Finished (nearly) section of monorail-facing side of the new hotel (from...

I feel like Iger/Chapek's Disney strategy is to look to Universal and follow suit. Build a mega-land centered on a single super popular outside IP? Check. Build generic Ramada Inns and market them "themed resorts". Check. Build a naked giga-coaster in the your THEME park and watch it get...

"I got a bad feeling about this." If thing came out half as good as Mira Costa I'd be okay. But I fear this hotel will be far less than my modest expectations (look at the blank, park-facing wall at 2:07) - which is unsurprising given Disney's truly dreadful themed-hotel-design track...

Looks to me like he has it in the right place. (It's likely Shull has been privy to the Zootopia project).

I think we can all agree that as bad and damaging as the prequel trilogy is, the sequel trilogy is much worse.

I love the style of the historic hotels in the real Riviera, which make up most of your examples. That's the massive problem I have with Disney's Riviera. It SHOULD have looked like your examples. It COULD have looked like your exampes with the right people in charge. But it looks...

Architecturally, the Disney's Riviera is pure excrement and an embarrassment to Wing Chao and Disney's former design standards - even for Moderates. It's not even that it has no ornament (though that is a huge missed opportunity). It's that every element was applied ineptly. Defending it by...

In areas that are pre-digital (and at AK with this particular example, I admit there is room for debate on this), theme supersedes the necessity of having digital tipboards & displays everywhere. The charm/quality of park graphics/displays of yesteryear was far greater than today's (across all...

^ There are couple variants on the overall design I've seen and one is too blurry to tell much except it is more traditional with a railroad and Frontierland: Then there is this very different early concept from the Maps book: Once the park settled on the general design that opened, I've...

Douglas Rogers is a very accomplished film artist (Shrek, Tangled). WDI brought him onboard to design its new castles in Shanghai & Hong Kong. Thankfully, for those of us who enjoy concept art and the design process, Rogers has his own website showing off a LOT of art for these projects...

A couple images matching art with model: The above vista has brilliant layering of foreground, middleground and background (ice castle) when viewing from the hotel's main egress.

Note how the hotel wing that runs alongside the frozen showbuilding is thinner than the other wings. Only courtyard-facing rooms in that wing?

Here's an aerial to illustrate. It's definitely part of the hotel, but is going to cause some confusion, as in "what is that unthemed midrise modern building that is taller than the frozen summit?" Fingers crossed for a model of the complete hotel soon.