The Empress Lilly
Well-Known Member
There are several colours that I really like, especially several colour combinations. The silver/grey with the dark grey / blue is great. The blues and browns are fine too. I do dislike all of these colours together. Too fragmented, too restless, trying too hard. To me in architecture colour should complement form (or even function if you are Piano), not outshout it. This colour scheme does not try to make the architecture speak for itself, it seems to want to correct it, or rejuvenate it, or even place itself in its place. The first is unecessay, the second fails, the third is a mistake.
It's a shame, because they obviously have a great eye for colour. Less was more here. But then, this lesson that EPCOT 1.0 so brilliantly applied to the point where it was almost the definition of its style, seems to have been completely lost on every subsequent intervention, save perhaps Test Track 2.
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This pic is a dreadful reminder of that, of thinking that 'less' is boring, in need of supplement. By now several layers of new interventions are outdoing each other for uselessness. Each making the place only look more cluttered and disconnected.
Gears, which were futuristic for five minutes in the nineties, and then only in Disney, but which fail to understand that EPCOT's futurism wasn't industrial. Those silly tarps that manage the exact opposite of what you want them to do: they block the view without providing shade. The CommuniCore building which is hacked in half, destroying the exact main selling point of the otherwise rather bland CC: their long swirling horizontal line. Plain weird checkerboard walkways, as if trying to manually paint the shadow the tarps don't provide. The canopy of the seating area, just ugly, period, it looks like a temporary tent structure. And to this is now added both a green and a brown colour scheme, several shades of both. It's a mess! I think the Plaza needed less clutter, not more.
