True, but I meant in a more general sense outside of Disney. It seems nearly every new house in Ontario, for example, has some kind of faux stone exterior. It looks nice enough, but I would hate to see this mass-produced trend start to creep into Disney designs, whenever they actually get back to building anything new.
Those are hideous and really poorly used. I see it everywhere and they look fake because they have no depth and get glued into weird places where stones would not be used. It’s the whole issue of not considering how and why materials were used. The one that drives me nuts is when they’re just sort of floating there; heavy materials go on the bottom. You wouldn’t have little bits of wood holding up a far too large stone column.
I was under the impression that Disney would bring in the junior imagineers to do rock work. They get hired for having a diversity of skills not specifically becuase they are amazing artists (some happen to be).
As mentioned in this thread, Peter Dominick seriously deserves more credit! He's responsible for designing Animal Kingdom Lodge and Wilderness Lodge.
And the Grand Californian
Thanks for pointing that out, here's various photos of all three hotels/resorts that he worked on.
Stucco on mcmansions is the ugliest! I don't understand why that became a thing (other than it's much cheaper). The last 10 years in Ohio they've started building houses that are sided or brick on the front and then stucco everywhere else. It looks completely ridiculous. People pay $600K for those houses. I don't get it.
Yes.As mentioned in this thread, Peter Dominick seriously deserves more credit! He's responsible for designing Animal Kingdom Lodge and Wilderness Lodge.
His death in 2009 was a big loss for the designers over at Imagineering.
Had to add a picture of Peter since we hardly seen any photos of him. Found that picture after an article reporting on his passing from January 2009.Yes.
Peter Dominick also designed Kidani, Boulder Ridge and Disney's Grand Californian
edit - I see you added images below this post I quoted
The days of people being moved between very different tasks are long since passed. Walt Disney Imagineering is very specialized. The quality of rock work at Disney is the work of dedicated, skilled sculptors.
Just a note, but Peter was never an Imagineer. Like Welton Becket, Michael Graves, Robert A. M. Stern or even firms like WATG, he was a third-party architect hired and supervised by Walt Disney Imagineering but also entrusted with the entire scope of design.As mentioned in this thread, Peter Dominick seriously deserves more credit! He's responsible for designing Animal Kingdom Lodge and Wilderness Lodge.
His death in 2009 was a big loss for the designers over at Imagineering.
Just pointing out that the Pics you're showing are for Disney's Wilderness Lodge and not the Grand Floridian.Grand Floridian
Lovely hotels. All too similiar imo but they're all beautiful.Thanks for pointing that out, here's various photos of all three hotels/resorts that he worked on.
Animal Kingdom Lodge
Grand Floridian
Grand Californian
You can tell Peter had a style when it comes to designing the lobby areas. No wonder he's considered to be the Joe Rhode of the Disney Hotels/Resorts when it comes to design and theming. He seriously deserves more appreciation, that's what make his death in 2009 much sadder.
Have you been to all three? I’ve always found them to each have unique identities.
I see better fitting clothes on Jeff this time around. No "Dad Jeans"!
Yes and they def are all pretty unique, although GC and WL are more similiar than AKL. I just don't think we needed 3 lodge-y hotels, or at least not two in WDW. I hope Reflections (if it still happens) isn't too similiar.
The promotional art clearly showed Reflections wasn’t even close to similar.
Yeah it looked very different which is good, esp being so close to WD on Bay Lake.
