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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke
I still love Tomorrowland 1967 and it's retro-contemporary reprise. Disney has done their part in promoting contemporary architechs with their own buildings, but I'm not sure I place any of that post-modern group into really being "future looking". Unfortunately, I think the "future" as a design concept seems to have faded in our post millenial times. Perhaps something other than terrorism will come along and inspire us to look forward again.
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As if more by accident than by design, we are seeing the the 1967 Tomorrowland in a new light. The abstract symbolism, the asymmetrical perfection of forms that dream upward with a clean and deliberate enthusiasm all call subconsciously for those who remember (and I imagine those who don't) to a better future - a dream future that is in line with the rest of the park.
Tomorrowland '98 did not improve on the vision of a wondrous future, as much as admit that if you can't plus Walt's idea, at least you can look busy if the budget allocates you liberal use of ugly paint.
I celebrate the return of the one true Tomorrowland Terrace.