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The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin are companion hotels designed by Michael Graves (2001 Gold Medalist) in association with Alan Lapidus. The Dolphin is pyramid-shaped and topped with 63-foot-tall dolphins. The Swan is rectangular and topped with 47-foot-high swans. These whimsical buildings are considered Postmodern, a movement and style closely associated with Graves.
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Comments (3)
Nice buildings, but they ruin the carefully designed vistas behind the France and United Kingdom pavillions at Epcot.
Posted by Anonymous | February 9, 2007 9:55 PM
Posted on February 9, 2007 21:55
i am glad to see a building in orlando made the top 150 list.and even ,ore glad that i was one of the foreman on the swan,my brother was also a foreman on the swan. a lot of hard work was put in to this building, also in the dolphin, i will never forget seeing with my own eyes a crane boom falling to the groung with over 350 feet of boom section on it, it was like the most amazing sight i have ever witnessed. after it hit the groung it took probably 15 minutes before the dust and sand cleared enough to see the wreckage.
Posted by Jack Johnson | February 10, 2007 7:55 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 19:55
I've stayed at this hotel and I can safely say any culture that lauds these disgusting, immoral, and idiotic boxes as among their best buildings is doomed. Offensive in the extremis. I'm going back to Wisconsin.
Posted by Jan Janssen | March 15, 2007 12:03 PM
Posted on March 15, 2007 12:03