PHOTO - Electric Umbrella demolition gets underway at EPCOT

Sir_Cliff32 minutes ago

If no-one is expecting that kind of architecture, then the comparison really isn't valid. The airports of wealthy North American and Western European countries don't compare to those of small, rich, autocratic states like Qatar and Singapore, so why compare them to the central spine of Epcot? It is certainly a valid argument that the architecture of these recent refurbishments is not interesting, is bad, etc. These comparisons suggest two related things to me, though. One is that no-one has any realistic idea what Epcot in the 2020s is supposed to look like. The other is that people have blown out of all proportion how innovative and futuristic the original EPCOT Center was when it first opened. So, people start scouting around for projects that aren't realistic comparisons like the Jewel at Singapore Airport that cost over $1 billion as a reasonable analogy for how 2020s Epcot should look and complain that spaces that are actually more in line with the scale and scope of the original EPCOT Center like Connections and Creations aren't like stepping through portals into a world no-one had previously been able to imagine. Again, you can critique the latter on their own merits, but critiquing them because they don't look like the airport terminal of an oil rich Gulf State is silly.

Centauri Space Station4 hours ago

Yeah this was way better

Bocabear5 hours ago

I agree... The comparisons to beautiful forward thinking architecture are valid... Scale might be off, but this particular park should have had a lot more in terms of beautiful architecture....and we basically got a corporate office campus park and a white cement building. The triangles are nice...thank God for them because they are the only things of interest... The lack of a fountain or water feature in the large central garden is baffling, and the central promotion planter is borderline obscene....

DreamfinderGuy6 hours ago

Obviously nobody is expecting multi-billion dollar structures at EPCOT, but the point of EPCOT failing to build anything architecturally interesting in the modern day is valid. EPCOT's architectural legacy in the 2020s so far is making one building from the 80s look significantly worse, a couple significantly better, some rectangles, and rebuilding an uglier version of a building they just tore down. The two remotely unique buildings (Festival Center and new Earth Station) they had planned both got canceled. With all the money being spent they can and should do better than they are.

J45466 hours ago

would you stop posting pictures of multibillion dollar airports and complaniing they arent getting built in epcot...You arent making any sense and its just getting weird. Your coming across unhinged

Epcot81Fan7 hours ago

While the rest of the world is doing this in free public spaces: WDI is putting this in the center of their premier theme park: “Absolutely amazing” indeed….

aladdin20077 hours ago

incredible how backwards we have gone since then

Epcot81Fan8 hours ago

Apparently poor Disney can’t scrape enough pennies together to even keep up with the current architecture in public spaces. It’s a long way down from the same company who once inspired the world with Spaceship Earth. #lowexpectations

Steve275316 hours ago

they actually played the completed version of that track during the spaceship earth points of light show

Sir_Cliff1 day ago

Yes, how strange the design of a performance space and exhibition centre at a Disney theme park doesn't rival the scale of an airport built by an oil rich autocratic Gulf State.

J45461 day ago

I get that your upset about watever, but posting pics from inside a 15 billion dollar airport and saying why can't they build this in epcot is just bonkers.

monothingie1 day ago

It’s so somber. It’s like a funeral could break out at any moment.

monothingie1 day ago

But they used the EPCOT Font!

Epcot81Fan1 day ago

I thought it was a new Delta lounge! Bud sadly, WDI can’t even design something for its premier theme park that even exceeds existing airport lounges today…