When Walt Disney World opens its gates in October, the Disney tradition, the spectacular, will greet guests of a new hotel designed around steel framed modular units
Hotel facilities at Walt Disney World, the 80-times-bigger-than-life eastern Disneyland, promise to be almost as spectacular as the exhibits and main attractions. Scheduled to be ready for the official October opening, the first of five hotels planned is a complex consisting of an outsized A-frame with prefabricated rooms flanking a nine-story-high lobby-concourse, and three-story hotel annex buildings. Guests will arrive via the monorail which cuts through the structure at the fourth level, with service, convention and large public areas below.
The 1050-room Contemporary Resort-Hotel was designed by Welton Becket and Associates for Walt Disney Productions. It is being built next to a large man-made lake by U.S. Steel Corporation's Realty Development Division, which set up a prefabrication plant eight miles down the road yet still on the WED Enterprises, Inc, site.
[…]
