Disney’s Contemporary Resort Named Ugliest Building In Florida
In what can only be described as an assault on good taste everywhere, Disney’s Contemporary Resort has been named one of the ugliest buildings in America.
Recently Travel.alot.com set about to find the “most unsightly” buildings in every state and rank them. The publication chose Disney’s Contemporary Resort as its representative of Florida.
How Disney’s Contemporary Resort Came To Be
One of Walt Disney World’s two original hotels, The Contemporary was designed by Welton Becket & Associates and United States Steel in collaboration with WED Enterprises.
The A-Frame building was designed to elicit the ethos of 20th Century modernity, blending in well with both the monorail transportation system and the Magic Kingdom’s Tomorrowland.
A modern marvel, Disney’s Contemporary Resort was using modular construction. The resort was first built as a skeleton, while assembly-line workers built fully furnished rooms nearby.
The rooms were then lifted by a crane and slid into place. Like a chest of drawers if you will (shoutout to RetroWDW).
The Ugliest Building In Florida?
In their report, the travel site had this to say about the Contemporary:
“Disney World is usually spot on when it comes to designing things, but what in the world were they thinking when they created the iconic (and ugly) Contemporary Resort?” the travel site said in its report. “It looks like a futuristic Aztec pyramid, which is not something you would normally associate with Mickey Mouse.”
I don’t know, maybe in stark contrast to today’s designers, they were thinking that not everything has to look like a Holiday Inn in Ocala, Florida?
Now look, far be it for me to defend Disney’s Contemporary Resort as a “beautiful” building. With that being said, there are definitely uglier structures even in Walt Disney World. I mean have these people seen Disney’s All-Star Sports?
While Disney’s Contemporary Resort was ranked as Florida’s ugliest building, it did not crack the top ten nationwide. Taravel.alot.com named The Kaden Tower in Louisville, Kentucky as the ugliest building in America.
The Top Ten Ugliest Buildings
In case you are interested, rounding out the top ten buildings in the country were:
- The Kaden Tower, Louisville, Kentucky
- Salt Lake City Courthouse, Salt Lake City, Utah
- The Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle, Washington
- Austin Courthouse, Austin, Texas
- 432 Park Avenue, New York, New York
- Peter B. Lewis Building at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
- Veer Towers, Las Vegas, Nevada
- City Hall of Tempe, Tempe, Arizona
- The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
So, what do you think? Is Disney’s Contemporary Resort the ugliest building in Florida? How about Walt Disney World? Let us know below!
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