Originally Posted By DlandDug Very sorry to report that Peter Dominick died in 2009. <a href="http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/090115dominick.asp" target="_blank">http://archrecord.construction...nick.asp</a>
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo >>>Peter Dominick is a principal there<<< Hi Dug, this should sadly read was. Unfortunately Peter died in a tragic skiing accident a couple of years ago.
Originally Posted By DlandDug I didn't find this out until just today. I am one of the few posters I know who actually tries to fact check his posts!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo lol. I was very upset at the time, he was/is one of my fav architects of the 20th century.
Originally Posted By Manfried Maybe they will quit spending money on time shares for a while and start using their imaginations for something better.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper ^^^Like bringing back If You Had Wings! Yea! That'll give the MK the shot in the arm it needs!
Originally Posted By leobloom To hear some tell it, MK should revert back to its mid-80s state: bring back Toad, 20K, If You Had Wings. We've already got MSEP and the Tiki Room. Oh, and give us mid-80s prices, too. I might actually go along with that if they adjusted their prices for their current offerings.
Originally Posted By dagobert >>And I hope they give John Rohde something else to do than just one hotel after the other. Even so the Parc Nature project looks much more interesting than I first thought when I read about it... And I really hope it will not be influenced by Hundertwasser, I am with Dave on this (sorry dagobert, I like other Austrians though! ;-) ).<< No offense taken. He is not everyone's taste. I have to admit I don't know a lot about his work, I just know his buildings in Vienna and Bad Blumau (<a href="http://www.blumau.com/rogner_bad_blumau_hundertwasser_architektur_hotel_therme_oesterreich_steiermark_urlaub_bilder_natur.html" target="_blank">http://www.blumau.com/rogner_b...tur.html</a>). @DlandDug: Thanks for the Urban Design Group link. They have designed some great buildings. Does WDI also design hotels or is that always done by outside companies and architecs? For example all of the Disneyland Paris hotels were planned by famous architects.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Not quite Dagobert, the Disneyland Hotel in Paris was designed by WDI. I also believe the Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel was as well. It was Micheal Eisner and the amazing Wing Chao that brought in all these fantastic architects over the years.
Originally Posted By dagobert >>Not quite Dagobert, the Disneyland Hotel in Paris was designed by WDI. I also believe the Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel was as well. It was Micheal Eisner and the amazing Wing Chao that brought in all these fantastic architects over the years.<< I know it is Wikipedia, but according to that site the DLH was co-designed by WDI and U.S.-based architecture firm Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_Hotel_%28Paris%29" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...Paris%29</a> In the book From Sketch To Reality there are many renderings and models for hotels and all of them would have been great.
Originally Posted By Bolna going back to the original topic: I really wonder how this will affect WDW especially since it is the home base for DVC. This really sounds like it make have a very negative effect on the profitability of DVC and hence on the bottom line for WDP&R as well. If you fire three managers at that level without severance pay it must mean that something really big went wrong. Here is some info about the new DVC senior vice president Clair Bilby: <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/the-daily-disney/os-disney-claire-bilby-20110816,0,2380087.story" target="_blank">http://www.orlandosentinel.com...87.story</a> I wonder how much influence she will have on any future direction of DVC - especially with regard to new properties. Maybe she will even admit to the fact that they are building DVC at GF?
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Interesting point Bolna, and what will this mean for existing owners? Is there a risk of maintenance fees going up to compensate? I know when we bought MVCI, we bought in France, not just because of DLP, but also because there is a legal ceiling on maintenance increases that cannot exceed the rate of inflation, whereas I know Hawaii, California, and Aruba rates had sky rocketted. I wonder what impact this would have on DVC?
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer ...can we fire DVC? ......Or get people to use it to go to REAL destinations?
Originally Posted By WDWVacationer ^Oh, EE. Don't start with you real destinations agenda here. I know plenty DVC members who use it for "real destinations".
Originally Posted By sjhym333 I would highly recommend Washington D.C. We had a great hotel not too far from the White House and we were able to walk to just about everything. And just about everything was free. All the monuments as well as all of the museums of the Smithsonian. We are ready to go back. What a great trip and a bargain.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh Disney owns about 15 acres near DC, at a development called National Harbor. If Aulani is a success they may develop something similar there.
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Originally Posted By RoadTrip Note to my friend the Spirit... satire is more fun when the reader isn't completely sure whether you are being satirical or not. Satire is best with a slow hand... an easy touch...
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>^Oh, EE. Don't start with you real destinations agenda here. I know plenty DVC members who use it for "real destinations".<< And you know that that's not the norm. Most use it for Disney, Disney, and MORE Disney, because Disney is the only choice, it's the brand, it's the governing factor in one's life. And what "agenda" is this? This is me. It's my opinion. You know me well enough to know that I am a historian before I'm a Disney fan... does it hardly surprise you that I enjoy something real and meaningful before a day in pixie dust land?
Originally Posted By WDWVacationer Well, obviously DVC members go to "real destinations" if Disney has built hotels at Vero Beach, Hilton Head Island and Hawaii that are either all or partly DVC. And there's the land in Washington. Now there's a destination that's right up your alley! And they consistently add other hotels and destinations to DVC, so they must use those too!
