CR DVC: Here It Is!

[Aisling]

It doesn't look bad at all!

 

[DVCconvert]

errrr....don't mean to burst your bubble....BUT.....

This is the same mock-up "pic" that was posted here nearly a year ago.

Sorry....but no "scoop" here!

 

[Aisling]

errrr....don't mean to burst your bubble....BUT.....

This is the same mock-up "pic" that was posted here nearly a year ago.

Sorry....but no "scoop" here!

OOps, I had no idea it was posted already. I really thought I discovered something on google.

Oh well, it does look good, though. I was concerned about how a circular addition would look, but it looks decent. I think it'll even add to the whole contemporary look. This was a good picture, because it's more than just a drawing...it looks real.

 

[Kim&Chris]

Maybe I'm alone here, but I think that huge "C" structure takes away from the beauty of the original Contemporary.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

Last month at the Contemporary a very reliable Cast Member told me that 100% it's going to be a DVC building. I realize this does not make it official and everything however this same Cast Member told me last December that the arcade would be moving to where the Fantasia store was and this was when everyone was saying I will believe it when I see it, or when WDW makes an official announcemnet. Well as we all know that became true, so I am choosing the believe what this Cast Member has told me.

 

[LoriZH]

Takes away half the view from the original CR, don't like it, it looks like an old age home or an apartment building! Ugh...anyone have an idea of how long before this monstrocity ruins the CR, would like to get a couple more visits in before it lands.

 

[Tonya2426]

Hmmmm. I don't like it. Looks like a condo building you would see at Ft. Lauderdale - not what I want to see when I am on the monorail. I was hoping for something wonderful to embrass and enhance the original building.

 

[Aisling]

They need to make it more space age-ish, futuristic, to suit tomorrowland. There should be a people-mover, like they have in airports, between the two buildings. Put laser lighting in the pool, replace the room phones with futuristic models, etc. They should even change the name, to something like Earth Station Disney Resort.

 

[spiceycat]

the real building won't be that big - especially compared to the older one.

 

[fla4fun]

I am not thrilled about the aesthetics of this design (if it turns out as pictured) as I feel it takes away from the design of the original building. When you look at BWV, VWL, BCV, and AKV, all of those designs compliment and add to the look of the original structure. This one doesn't. Although there's nothing that can be done about the size and shape of the new tower at this point, hopefully there will be some changes to the decorative elements to tie it in better with the original tower. In the end, it should look like it's one cohesive resort, not two competing resorts crowded together in a small space.

 

[EUROPACL]

In that picture is the new building even in the right location looks like they put it in front of the old building.

 

[Another Voice]

It looks like the set to a follow-up series to 'The Golden Girls' - where in this one Bea Arthur is the preisdent of the retirement condo owners association and gets into all sorts of wacky hijicks as she deals with a colorful assortment of neighbors.

What's really funny is that once again does the exact opposite of what they have learned. Way back in the late sixities, the original designs for the Polynesian called for a large, fourteen story central tour surrounded by long houses. The architect and the developer really liked the idea -but the designers said it look like a Wikiki touriset hotel instead of giving them a feeling of being in the South Pacific. After a long battle, the designers won and changed the resort to be the Polynesian Village Hotel. It's been the most popular hotel at WDW since Day One.

So now, fifty years later, we're right back with bland, bad designs that are bringing the worst of International Drive to the doorstep of the Magic Kingdom.

 

[TiggerFreak]

. . .the Polynesian Village Hotel. It's been the most popular hotel...

Based on occupancy rates?

. . . since Day One....

Which hotel openned first?

 

[TiggerFreak]

Betcha this time we won't hear about stuck doors and stuck doors!
It will sell.
Heck, I'll try it out, why not, it'll be better than sleepin off 192!.
Most visitors will not care about how it affects the sensibilities of the traditionalists.


Loooonnnngggg walk to the Monorail station, you would almost be better just walking to the MK

 

[DC7800]

Sorry, but this abomination is just as ugly as it was when this image was first discovered last year. It doesn't add to the Contemporary (look), rather, it clashes very badly with the Contemporary tower and surviving garden wings next door (there are some structures on International Drive which would be a vast improvement over this...).

What I want to know was who exactly within Disney thought this design was a good idea? This should be an embarassment to both WDW and the firm which designed it (who really need to get out of the architectuctural profession if this is the best idea they could come up with).

 

[Another Voice]

Based on occupancy rates?

I don't have recent figures, but Poly was the most request resort for as long as I've known. It opened with fewer rooms than the Contemporary so it could never match it in terms of the sheer number of guests, but the occupancy rate is higher.

I mean, there's a reason why the Contemporary and Grand Floridian had to build big convention centers to attract groups while the Poly can stay full year round just from vacationing guests.

Which hotel openned first?

Both the Contemporary and the Polynesian Village opened with resort in 1971. The Golf Resort opened two years later.

 

[CanadianGuy]

The biggest problem with getting upset about this particular graphic -- is that nobody seems to know for sure that this graphic is in any way representative of the final product.

For all we know, some 'fan-boi' drew it in his spare time..

Does anyone here know the origination source of this proposed design?

Knox

 

[firemanx]

after just returning from the CR the DVC building is nowhere near as big as that. Its also back closer to Bay Lake then shown in that pic.

 

[vonpluto]

The biggest problem with getting upset about this particular graphic -- is that nobody seems to know for sure that this graphic is in any way representative of the final product.

For all we know, some 'fan-boi' drew it in his spare time..

Does anyone here know the origination source of this proposed design?

Knox

The concept drawing first appeared here on the DIS last August in this thread:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1187616

Note that these are a concept drawing and a Seven Seas Lagoon side elevation, not the composite photo that begins this thread, That photo first appeared on Screamscape a few months back without reference.

 

[plutospup]

Loooonnnngggg walk to the Monorail station, you would almost be better just walking to the MK

Of course the same was true when I stayed in the North Garden Wing. 10 min walk to the MK, or 45 min by monorail.