.Today is a follow-up to my last post on the Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona. These photos show the Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired bathrooms in the Hollywood Backlot section of Disney's California Adventure.
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.The bathrooms actually borrow a design from the Storer House, a private residence in Los Angeles that Wright built in 1923 using his textile block method of construction.
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ReplyDeleteMy wife and I were in this park A LOT when it first opened. Like, every weekend for several months. It always seemed to be raining in the first few weeks (all of our early pictures of DCA are very grey and wet - lots of umbrellas) but this space caught my eye right away.
ReplyDeleteBeing a big Frank Lloyd Wright fan I noticed the concrete block work and had to stop and admire each time we were there.
Guess I've sort of "gotten used" to it over the years and don't appreciate it as much as I did then.
Thanks TM! You've made me remember what I first realized - this was one place in the park that I really felt was aesthetically "together" right from the start. Though what it has to do with a Hollywood Backlot theme is still a bit sketchy. But Hey!
Hrundi, thanks for commenting on my blog! The first time I visited that park, those bathrooms were a very pleasant surprise. Actually, as far as architecture goes...I think those bathrooms and maybe just a couple other facades in the Hollywood Backlot area are the only decent buildings in the entire park!
ReplyDeleteEven if claimed by Disney to be based on the Storer house, it is clearly based on the Freeman house.
ReplyDeleteHi, all--I just ran into your blog. I'm the landscape architect who designed the textile block in Hollywood Backlot. The block design was based on the block at the Storer House but the form of the building was based on the Freeman House. Everyone's a winner! The facades down "Hollywood Blvd." were selected from the heyday of the big film studios so we chose iconic buildings of that period, and FLW was one of the popular architects of that period.--MY
ReplyDeleteUnknown, thank you so much for that information! :-)
ReplyDeleteDisney should be commended for preserving many design elements and styles from Los Angeles and other places which were visible in LA when I grew up near there. Most are long gone now. The view down the boulevard with the mural at the end is striking and unique. For anyone visiting LA who is interested, several of Wrights houses can still be seen there.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, I love that Disney copied some of the classic architecture from Los Angeles and Hollywood, for both DCA and the Disney Hollywood Studios. Fortunately, some of the original buildings which served as inspiration do still exist....but now I'm wondering just how many of them.
ReplyDeleteI have been on guided tours of Frank Loyd Wright's Hollyhock House, and the Ennis House (both in L.A./Hollywood). I believe they no longer give tours of the Ennis house, since it has become a private residence once again. But I believe tours are still given of the Hollyhock House.