This post is for architecture fans. Disneyland is an architect's dream, even when it's a bit overwrought or hokey. Here's a few examples. See what you think.
Even on a gloomy, overcast day like this the landscaping looked terrific. I could easily have photographed nothing but that all day. The tallest shrubs (trees?) here are only about as tall as a person.
Even industrial sites look good in this park.
And why shouldn't industry look good? It has a noble purpose, which is to make useful or beautiful things in quantities which will allow them to sell for low prices.
Every time I go to Disneyland I come back with a resolve to make my backyard look like Disney's cannibal village. I actually tried it once and was surprised to see that my kids were indifferent to it.
Nice shield!
Above, that crossbar and faux giraffe skin add a lot to that pole.
Nice bamboo stakes! I'll have to remember this when I decorate my porch next Halloween.
Here's (above) a low roof supported by columns in Fantasyland. Walless sections of buildings like this aren't very useful for keeping cold air out, but they're psychologically sheltering, and make for great indoor/outdoor transitions. For some reason this sort of thing never caught on in America except on railroad platforms.
Remember the stage set for Disneyland's Animation Academy that I posted about last time? Here's a few blurry pictures (sorry about that) to show details of that set. Check out that framed picture on the wall showing what I assume is a winning hand in a card game. It never occurred to me to frame things like that. It looks good.
Here's (upper left) a bulletin board framed in thick, quality wood that matches the wood in the shelf stack beneath it. It's a nice look.
In a different location now, here's a shelf top (above) in a voodoo shop in New Orleans Square.
In the same shop: a shelf of colored glass bottles. Nice, huh?
Above, the Haunted Mansion decked out Tim Burton-style for both Halloween and Christmas. Click to enlarge.
Yikes! I have more pictures but no more space. Oh, well.....
4 comments:
Thank you for posting these wonderful pictures. It's great to see the park in detail without the over stimuli of sound and motion. I do however think the pole has a fake giraffe skin, not zebra, wrapped on it.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Joel: Did I say "zebra?" Yikes! I'll change that!
You should take up a collection to have your commenters send you to Paris. I'll start the ball rolling by pledging Roberto Severino to donate a cool grand to your fund!
lol ^
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