Cause story isn't that important?
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I have a new life goal: build a beautiful melting house. Might be hard to keep the furniture in place though.
What issue of materials? The tower is already stucco. If the market doesn’t like the concept, then develop a new concept. According to this thread, convention goers are an odd lot who demand their buildings to be regular, uniform and the same but also demand unique furniture and finishings.
Nassal just built a moss covered Gothic ruin out of stucco. There are no bricks on Duff Gardens or the new Sesame Street, all hand carved stucco. Some of the guys who do brick carving even do it completely free hand. I imagine some curves would be something they could handle.
The pic I posted was for stonework, which isn't something I would expect Disney to replicate for a hotel. I imagine that doing it right would be labor-intensive. Maybe for a boutique-style hotel (like SW), but I wouldn't expect it at this scale. As for as the interior design goes - this is an on-trend example, via AD:
TRON hate continues in this thread too I see..
Somebody mentioned Imagineering's role in this. It's my guess that there isn't a role for Imagineering in projects like this anymore. Not in the traditional way we have come to look at WDI. Nor in the incorporation of attractions around the property.
I imagine that the less overt attention to theming and storytelling in large part has to do with the fact that convention business is naturally going to be different from their usual clientele. There are plenty of people in this world who find Disney kind of cheesy and, for example, would roll their eyes at the idea of staying in a giant recreation of a national park lodge in Central Florida. So I sense that they're trying to reach some midway point between a nice business hotel that will compare favourably to what conventioneers are used to and a themed Disney resort that appeals as much as possible to their traditional market.
At what point does the Contempofusion Hispania stop being a celebration of all things "Hispania" (which is such an odd concept considering the breadth of Hispanic culture) and become pandering to what consumers think Hispania culture (again, not sure there is such a thing) is/was?"The starting point for the project was to celebrate Spanish, Mexican and South American cultures, including food, music, colors, design and textiles," said David Stofcik, executive architect at Walt Disney Imagineering.“As we started getting into it, especially from the Spanish side, we discovered an amazing collaboration that Disney had with Salvador Dali from Spain. And we really started to look into that from a graphic scenic kind of standpoint, colors,” Stofcik said.*
Hmmm... like some sort of Contempofusion Hispania motif...
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And then go binge Ballykissangel.Lemme tell you about "Irish American" v. "Irish" cultures and how that gets portrayed in pop culture....
Stofcik is clearly referring to the creative process 'The starting point' to 'Started getting into it' within the parameter of 'Spanish'.
OTOH I don't disagree with you on this point:
'Used-to-Rule Mexico, Mexico, Used-to-be Mexico'.
The image is stonework, but actual stone is not required to create such an aesthetic. Just this year SeaWorld built Sesame Street full of brick facades but no actual bricks were used. Universal just built a fantastic Gothic ruin without a single stone, it is all steel and carved stucco. The tower is also a concrete structure, which could have easily been incorporated into such an aesthetic while still remaining rather simple as a structural system.
It is not “Disney” enough because themed design is more than just interior decoration. Almost none of that aesthetic is carried to the walls or ceiling which are very planar. Some of the few arches in the building, the large windows, are bookended by large, square engaged columns. You were also previously referencing Guadí, an architect, so it seems particularly odd to claim that a lot of the design was inspired by the work of an architect, just not the actual architecture.
