@@boglarcara557 but ultimately, the whole film is his vision as he planned out and wrote the film, which is why i believe he does deserve some form of credit for the set design because the set designers helped him bring that vision to life by physically making these incredible spaces
So from this I learned that a lot of things jumped out at him, right away. In all seriousness, this was incredibly insightful, and really shows just how determined a director Wes is. How his architectural decisions match those made in the time periods his films take place in.
The Netflix show Midnight at the Pera Palace also reflects interesting architectural components of the late 19th century. Perhaps you could analyze that next.
I studied AD in college, it was my 2nd true love, I D was the 1st. Unfortunately, it was an mismatched love. These videos are a reminder of how true love felt. Thank you.
Ok lemme go re watch the movie - there’s so much that I missed! Also I feel guilty - I’m an acoustic consultant and we’re always telling people to install grid ceilings (illuminated ceilings?) because it’s the most economical acoustic treatment. Architects typically respond by saying they would rather have exposed services which happens to be the most economic of all (obvs zero acoustic benefit)
I love the ochre tones of the 60s, and while it doesn't flow with the Belle Epoque architecture of the GBH, it's still a beautiful color story on its own. But then again, I like dated stuff, so-called 'modern' architecture and design seems mostly derivative anyway, might as well go for full-on duplication of the good ideas of past decades.
BRO the whole entire bit he goes on at 2:50 about the front entrance not matching the miniature is just absolutely and completely INCORRECT. If you look even a LITTLE BIT closely at the wide shot of the miniature, you can VERY clearly see that the ACCURATE front doors with the smaller "Grand Budapest" letters and the gold spikes are there. The front doors (and the window above them) also feature very heavily in part of the climax of the film, so having them be inaccurate at any point would be a BIG mistake to not be noticed by Wes Anderson or the production team. Huge disappointment that he got that part wrong in an otherwise good video.
Love the side-by-side comparisons of the 30s vs 60s decor in the end. It is noticable in the film of course, but it lingers just too briefly to really let it soak in. Great video as usual AD, hopefully much more to come with this format and guest!
This was a treat. Love Wes Anderson and love architecture, so double dopamine dose. Harry Potter comes to mind as a possible episode of architectural unpacking. Thank you.
Harry Potter would be fantastic. Granted, a large portion of Hogwarts is made of real world locations, but those would still be interesting to analyze.
I love the grand Budapest hotel, there’s so much thought and detail that’s gone into the world building. It’s an amazing movie and it’s beautiful to watch and enjoy.
As a person who lived in the city of Goerlitz, where the hotel lobby, the bath and the dining room were shot, this clip was a special treat! Thanks alot AD! As a child it was a must to go to that warehouse when we came on a day trip from the village, they had literally everything there and the flair was kind of glamourous. Today it's closed, sad but true. Side Note: 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' was not the first and surely not the last movie made in Goerlitz ... parts of "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jackie Chan, 'Inglorious Basterds', 'The Reader' and many more were made there ...
OMG used to live in Zittau right around the time when this film was made and aired. I travelled through Goerlitz many times but never paid attention.(I was a student at Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz ) But i never knew that filming location was in Goerlitz. I missed many beautiful places there.
I would enjoy a break down of the Addams Family house. You could delve into the differences between the house in the New Yorker cartoons and the movies, how the house changes from movie to movie, and the houses in both the old and newer TV series and the house in the new animated movies. The house has always been my favorite "character" in the series, and I'd be interested to know your opinion on which movie or show house is most faithful to Charles Addam's illustrations.
Or as any Czech will tell, welcome to Karlovy Vary/Carlsbad and Grand hotel Pupp, where you can find everything. Magnificent bath hotel build in secession style, Ventricular, and even deer jump statue.
Love the breakdown! Just wanted to point out some things I noticed: 1:09 - I believe the architect says "aqueduct" but the captions transcribe it as "aqua-dock". 2:47 - He says that in the exterior shot the "Grand Budapest" signage is not consistent, but it is. It could just be the quality of the printed movie screenshot the staff gave him, but if you take a closer look, there is the smaller version of the signage in the same place as the close-up shot. It's barely legible, yes, but it's there. 5:19 - Caught another captioning error hahaha. It's "panes", like glass panes, not "pains" nor "pans" (later in the sentence). 12:15 - Captions again. "Formica", as in the brand Formica Laminate which is used for tabletop surfaces, not "For Micah".
Interesting choice to do a deep dive into The Grand Budapest Hotel and to see its transition from a style period that celebrated beauty, into a drab edifice of the 1960s, Soviet-era modernism. Of course, it's a microcosm of what has happened to many cities around the world. In my case, a city that went from being a rather handsome and elegant Victorian/Edwardian city to a hodge-podge of drab modernist buildings and run-down vestiges of its former glory.
The Haunting (1999) - shot at a variety of mansions and elaborate sets. The Great Gatsby (2013) - how can one not discuss one of the most famous homes ever. Nick Carraway's tiny house next door also had its charms.
If you like the architecture of East and West Egg, Long Island, see the illustrations of Joseph Christian Leyendecker. Supposedly some of "The Great Gatsby" is based on him. Not so much as the architecture as the lifestyle.
You should look into doing an episode on Severance (2022)! All of the sets are very moody and say a lot in their simplicity and variety (such as the reflective glass of the seemingly infinite Lumen building, and the uniform, isolated, blue suburb, not to mention the deliberately out-of-time interiors).
Seeing a 35 year seasoned architect break down the architecture from the film The Grand Budapest Hotel was quite a treat, as I absolutely loved this movie.
The architect doesn't mention it but the exterior of this hotel is actually based on the Bristol Hotel in Karlovy Vary, a real functioning grandhotel in my city. And so is the mountain goat statue on a mountain you can see in the promotional pictures for the film. Look up a photo :)
Did anyone else’s head explode by the fact the expert missed that the dinning hall was actually a converted theater and the painting was a scenic backdrop? 🤯
Yes! That was my 1st thought … and wondered why it wasn’t discussed. Even the “box seats” are present. Also, the exposed scenic flats that flank the painting indicate the faux façade that the converted grand theatre represents as a dining room in the building’s decline.
Love these videos!!!!! Thank you AD. Would you ever do government buildings around the world? (I know one was done about the White House) bit for eg looking at parliament hill in Canada or other countries???
I absolutely love this movie. I had never seen any Wes Anderson movie before this. I'm very grateful that I have this on DVD. I just love the beautiful architecture. Thankfully I had the chance to go to Europe in Aug 1990 with my girlfriend and her parents. We got to see lots of very famous places including the Louvre in Paris, the Colosseum in Rome, and many gothic cathedrals. Thank you.
I so LOVE theses series of Michael breaking down architecture. I feel like i'm back at school in my favorite class. Glued to his lips, want to learn more!
Wes Anderson captured the essence of Budapest, It's like he combined the Gellert hotel in Budapest, with the Budapest History Museum and the Budapest Castle Hill Funicular, one of my favourite movies of all times
Thank you Michael, I love your enlightening video explaining the architecural style and oppulence of the original The Grand Budapest Hotel interior and exterior juxtaposed with the sad, dull, tolatitarian 60's interior, very depressing end to the film. Your presentation with descriptive photos is absolutely marvellous. I love Mansard roofs and was fascinated to learn their origin to bypass regulations, ingenious. Corbusier buildings, although I appreciate natural change, always reminds me of a film made in France of people endlessly going up and down escalators, like ants, on their way to work. Xxxx
This is one of my favorite films. I like al of Wes Anderson's films. I was in Ukraine in 1975 as a teenager, and that Soviet interior style is spot on. It *almost* made me nostalgic in a weird way. The dining room--isn't it a theater, or was? There are two stage levels in front of curtains. The large illustrated panel could have been where a backdrop was hung, perhaps converted to a film screen in the 20s and 30s. Most telling are the balconies on the side and the seats turned to face the proscenium. Or it may have been a ballroom with the orchestra on the stage. I love how in the last photo of the staff, you can tell what everyone's job is and what seniority they have by how they're dressed, how detailed or not their uniforms are and whether they are sitting, kneeling or standing. Classic.
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I love these videos. Michael Wyetzner is so entertaining to listen to! I'm fascinated by architecture in movies & games, and how directors work with their designers to tell the stories. Awesome series!
YO you need to shout out the PRODUCTION DESIGNER AND THE ART DEPARTMENT TEAM! yes, it's Wes' mind but they are the people who bring it to life, add the extra details and make it happen. ART DEPARTMENT RIGHTS!!!!!
Yet another comment. Review Luc Besson's movie "The Fifth Element" supporting it with its creative consultant Jean "Moebius/Gir" Giraud, French Illustrator.
I just found these vids, and I'm really enjoying them, but please stop using the new 2020s era annoying expression "very sort of" when describing things. It's either very, or it's sort of, but not both ;-)
The bathhouse was the local ”Wasserheil- und Bade-Anstalt” in which our one-armed ”life guard” bumped us back from the poolsides with his two-meters-stick to ”teach” us swimming several decades ago …
I would very much like to see a breakdown of Orchard House from Little Women movies. I believe at least one iteration of the story might have been filmed in the actual Orchard House...?
I always love the examples you guys provide because so many of them tickle my classical revivalist heart. I really do love that overly ornamented design language. Brutalist, abstract, and minimalist architectural styles really just don't do much for me, particularly when you are dealing with such a large canvas as a hotel or department store, or civic center, etc. Is the classical revival style the best? No, not necessarily, but I still prefer it. It always brings an air of class to any place that still has structures in this style.
The plural of "atrium" is "atria". Also, the main entrance in the wide-shot of the hotel front is, except for the sign, the same as the entrance in the close-up shot. Wyetzner perhaps needs new glasses.
i’m very determined to believe that wes anderson would’ve made a fantastic architect
I think he did do an interior design to this bar/café sometime after Grand Budapest, so close enough?
All this could probably be credited more to the team of set designers that worked on the film, not the director
Or serial killer
I think he even said in an interview somewhere that if he wasn't a director he would maybe be an architect
@@boglarcara557 but ultimately, the whole film is his vision as he planned out and wrote the film, which is why i believe he does deserve some form of credit for the set design because the set designers helped him bring that vision to life by physically making these incredible spaces
Love this! Wes Anderson’s style is iconic!
This series is fantastic, and explains architecture in a way that anyone can understand and appreciate it. Please continue them!
So from this I learned that a lot of things jumped out at him, right away.
In all seriousness, this was incredibly insightful, and really shows just how determined a director Wes is. How his architectural decisions match those made in the time periods his films take place in.
You guys should look at the Shining. Another iconic movie hotel, great video!
Yes!
The Netflix show Midnight at the Pera Palace also reflects interesting architectural components of the late 19th century. Perhaps you could analyze that next.
I studied AD in college, it was my 2nd true love, I D was the 1st.
Unfortunately, it was an mismatched love.
These videos are a reminder of how true love felt. Thank you.
You could do one of these for every Wes Anderson movie and I would happily watch.
I love how things kept jumping out at him
I would love more videos on the evolution of American architecture.🙏
Eric Sloane's books would be a start.
Will check out , thanks!
Just a few shots from the end, they show the entrance with the words "GRAND BUDAPEST" rendered as simple blocks. Now that's minimalism!
Ok lemme go re watch the movie - there’s so much that I missed!
Also I feel guilty - I’m an acoustic consultant and we’re always telling people to install grid ceilings (illuminated ceilings?) because it’s the most economical acoustic treatment. Architects typically respond by saying they would rather have exposed services which happens to be the most economic of all (obvs zero acoustic benefit)
11:34 the city I live
Thaaaaaank you! You are my favorite part of AD
I love the architect’s speech pattern.
The Old Arcade in Cleveland at 4:52
I love the ochre tones of the 60s, and while it doesn't flow with the Belle Epoque architecture of the GBH, it's still a beautiful color story on its own. But then again, I like dated stuff, so-called 'modern' architecture and design seems mostly derivative anyway, might as well go for full-on duplication of the good ideas of past decades.
Michael is a great teacher!
please make more videos like this,theyre great thank you
Love these videos !!! 💯
BRO the whole entire bit he goes on at 2:50 about the front entrance not matching the miniature is just absolutely and completely INCORRECT. If you look even a LITTLE BIT closely at the wide shot of the miniature, you can VERY clearly see that the ACCURATE front doors with the smaller "Grand Budapest" letters and the gold spikes are there. The front doors (and the window above them) also feature very heavily in part of the climax of the film, so having them be inaccurate at any point would be a BIG mistake to not be noticed by Wes Anderson or the production team. Huge disappointment that he got that part wrong in an otherwise good video.
how about the interior in The Shape Of Water (2017)
ive never clicked so fast in my life
Next?
Let's talk about the house of "The Simpsons". I mean, if you want to talk about changing buildings, THIS is the one to talk about. 😆
Love the side-by-side comparisons of the 30s vs 60s decor in the end. It is noticable in the film of course, but it lingers just too briefly to really let it soak in. Great video as usual AD, hopefully much more to come with this format and guest!
The earlier parts of the film aren't the architure of the 1930s but of the Austro Hungarian empire as mentioned by the architect.
@@uioplkhj good point. I should clarify that I meant the decor as seen in the 30s time setting in the film, you're right that it's older than that.
This was a treat. Love Wes Anderson and love architecture, so double dopamine dose. Harry Potter comes to mind as a possible episode of architectural unpacking. Thank you.
Harry Potter would be fantastic. Granted, a large portion of Hogwarts is made of real world locations, but those would still be interesting to analyze.
Oooh yes! So many options to choose from those movies:)
I love the grand Budapest hotel, there’s so much thought and detail that’s gone into the world building. It’s an amazing movie and it’s beautiful to watch and enjoy.
I LOVE when AD does these kinda videos. No work shall be done for the next 14.11 mins :)
Quality content!! Please keep these coming! (And please bring back every details of NY buildings)
As a person who lived in the city of Goerlitz, where the hotel lobby, the bath and the dining room were shot, this clip was a special treat! Thanks alot AD!
As a child it was a must to go to that warehouse when we came on a day trip from the village, they had literally everything there and the flair was kind of glamourous. Today it's closed, sad but true.
Side Note: 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' was not the first and surely not the last movie made in Goerlitz ... parts of "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jackie Chan, 'Inglorious Basterds', 'The Reader' and many more were made there ...
OMG used to live in Zittau right around the time when this film was made and aired. I travelled through Goerlitz many times but never paid attention.(I was a student at Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz ) But i never knew that filming location was in Goerlitz. I missed many beautiful places there.
I would enjoy a break down of the Addams Family house. You could delve into the differences between the house in the New Yorker cartoons and the movies, how the house changes from movie to movie, and the houses in both the old and newer TV series and the house in the new animated movies. The house has always been my favorite "character" in the series, and I'd be interested to know your opinion on which movie or show house is most faithful to Charles Addam's illustrations.
I second that! 👍🏻
Or as any Czech will tell, welcome to Karlovy Vary/Carlsbad and Grand hotel Pupp, where you can find everything. Magnificent bath hotel build in secession style, Ventricular, and even deer jump statue.
Love the breakdown! Just wanted to point out some things I noticed:
1:09 - I believe the architect says "aqueduct" but the captions transcribe it as "aqua-dock".
2:47 - He says that in the exterior shot the "Grand Budapest" signage is not consistent, but it is. It could just be the quality of the printed movie screenshot the staff gave him, but if you take a closer look, there is the smaller version of the signage in the same place as the close-up shot. It's barely legible, yes, but it's there.
5:19 - Caught another captioning error hahaha. It's "panes", like glass panes, not "pains" nor "pans" (later in the sentence).
12:15 - Captions again. "Formica", as in the brand Formica Laminate which is used for tabletop surfaces, not "For Micah".
Thank you I noticed him not seeing the entrance too
We actually discussed this movie, and Wes Andersons very orthographic filming style in architecture school on a great many of these principles.
Interesting choice to do a deep dive into The Grand Budapest Hotel and to see its transition from a style period that celebrated beauty, into a drab edifice of the 1960s, Soviet-era modernism. Of course, it's a microcosm of what has happened to many cities around the world. In my case, a city that went from being a rather handsome and elegant Victorian/Edwardian city to a hodge-podge of drab modernist buildings and run-down vestiges of its former glory.
Where do you live, if you don't mind me asking?
@@joelrebollar7055 from what it sounds like, any european city that survived WW2 but didn’t last the modernist movement
The Haunting (1999) - shot at a variety of mansions and elaborate sets.
The Great Gatsby (2013) - how can one not discuss one of the most famous homes ever. Nick Carraway's tiny house next door also had its charms.
If you like the architecture of East and West Egg, Long Island, see the illustrations of Joseph Christian Leyendecker. Supposedly some of "The Great Gatsby" is based on him.
Not so much as the architecture as the lifestyle.
You should look into doing an episode on Severance (2022)! All of the sets are very moody and say a lot in their simplicity and variety (such as the reflective glass of the seemingly infinite Lumen building, and the uniform, isolated, blue suburb, not to mention the deliberately out-of-time interiors).
I really enjoy these. Great job (again). Couple of suggestions; Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Graduate.
Seeing a 35 year seasoned architect break down the architecture from the film The Grand Budapest Hotel was quite a treat, as I absolutely loved this movie.
The architect doesn't mention it but the exterior of this hotel is actually based on the Bristol Hotel in Karlovy Vary, a real functioning grandhotel in my city. And so is the mountain goat statue on a mountain you can see in the promotional pictures for the film. Look up a photo :)
I was also thinking of Karlovy Vary. It also reminds me of the hotel Gellért in Budapest :)
I read that the inspiration was Hotel Gellért and Hotel Corinthia in Budapest, but Karlovy Vary also seems about right
Thanks for bringing Mr. Wyetzner back! Always enjoyed watching him! This man really has a way to keep things both captivating and informative!
Love this.
I also LOVED the old department store architecture specifically the grand multi level atriums! They're so beautiful!
Did anyone else’s head explode by the fact the expert missed that the dinning hall was actually a converted theater and the painting was a scenic backdrop? 🤯
Yes! That was my 1st thought … and wondered why it wasn’t discussed. Even the “box seats” are present. Also, the exposed scenic flats that flank the painting indicate the faux façade that the converted grand theatre represents as a dining room in the building’s decline.
The building is actually real, it's a mall in Germany.
I loved some of the smaller spaces as well - the rooms, trains, steam rooms. Next how about Blade Runner 2049... perhaps versus the original.
Love these videos!!!!! Thank you AD. Would you ever do government buildings around the world? (I know one was done about the White House) bit for eg looking at parliament hill in Canada or other countries???
Loved every second of this. GBH is one of my favourite movies. Thank you Mr. Wyetzner and #AD.
I absolutely love this movie. I had never seen any Wes Anderson movie before this. I'm very grateful that I have this on DVD. I just love the beautiful architecture. Thankfully I had the chance to go to Europe in Aug 1990 with my girlfriend and her parents. We got to see lots of very famous places including the Louvre in Paris, the Colosseum in Rome, and many gothic cathedrals. Thank you.
I would love to see the 1995 version of A Little Princess! The school has this beautiful fascinating, architecture!
Would love to hear your take on all of the iterations of gotham!
A LOT of effort was put into the gothic architecture of the original 1989 Batman film, extensive sets were built at Pinewood Studios.
I so LOVE theses series of Michael breaking down architecture. I feel like i'm back at school in my favorite class. Glued to his lips, want to learn more!
Wes Anderson captured the essence of Budapest, It's like he combined the Gellert hotel in Budapest, with the Budapest History Museum and the Budapest Castle Hill Funicular, one of my favourite movies of all times
Suggestion: Architecture of Terry Gilliam's movie "Brazil."
He not just speaks as an architect, but also as an cinephile
Loved this, so informative. Could you do Hungarian architecture please? It's so beautiful.
Das Kaufhaus Görlitz, auch Warenhaus Görlitz.
Amazing fact: This department store was built in under one year!
Thank you Michael, I love your enlightening video explaining the architecural style and oppulence of the original The Grand Budapest Hotel interior and exterior juxtaposed with the sad, dull, tolatitarian 60's interior, very depressing end to the film. Your presentation with descriptive photos is absolutely marvellous. I love Mansard roofs and was fascinated to learn their origin to bypass regulations, ingenious. Corbusier buildings, although I appreciate natural change, always reminds me of a film made in France of people endlessly going up and down escalators, like ants, on their way to work. Xxxx
Awesome break downs. Looking forward to do one for Blade Runners!
Im hoping you do a Breakdown of animated shows, and have H. John Benjamine and Ar. Wyetzner share the screen together. 😆
This is one of my favorite films. I like al of Wes Anderson's films. I was in Ukraine in 1975 as a teenager, and that Soviet interior style is spot on. It *almost* made me nostalgic in a weird way.
The dining room--isn't it a theater, or was? There are two stage levels in front of curtains. The large illustrated panel could have been where a backdrop was hung, perhaps converted to a film screen in the 20s and 30s. Most telling are the balconies on the side and the seats turned to face the proscenium. Or it may have been a ballroom with the orchestra on the stage.
I love how in the last photo of the staff, you can tell what everyone's job is and what seniority they have by how they're dressed, how detailed or not their uniforms are and whether they are sitting, kneeling or standing. Classic.
4:44 ГУМ …Department store in Moscow is pronounced goom
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If you zoom in close in the elevation, you will also see the text right below the art nouveau entrance. It is just not as big 2:48
The Overlook Hotel would also be very interesting!!
Downton Abbey!
I really enjoyed this! Very informative and interesting. Great intro to Michael Wyetzner. Hope to see more of him
Such a great video!
Thnx guys
The Grand Budapest Hotel is one of the most perfectly executed fantasy movies ever.....that still touches on the human condition. #TGBH♥️
this is really great, i wouldn't mind watching analysis like this for hours
This Guy is amazing! Excellent analysis.
I would love to hear your take on the architecture in The Incredibles (and its sequel).
Really enjoyed that, Thanks you Michael.
Wish one day you this serious could do a break down of Gilded Age!
As a New Yorker Michael W. would be familiar with the architecture of McKim, Mead & White throw in some of Stanford White's life.
Wow, I love Wes Anderson movies even more now. I want to go back and watch them all and go frame by frame.
See his first movie "Bottle Rocket" for its scenes with Frank Lloyd Wright's John Gillian Residence.
Love from Pakistan...
If you don't mind a challenge, Pleasantville is a movie I find to have exceptionally well-researched architectural elements.
I love these videos. Michael Wyetzner is so entertaining to listen to! I'm fascinated by architecture in movies & games, and how directors work with their designers to tell the stories. Awesome series!
YO you need to shout out the PRODUCTION DESIGNER AND THE ART DEPARTMENT TEAM! yes, it's Wes' mind but they are the people who bring it to life, add the extra details and make it happen. ART DEPARTMENT RIGHTS!!!!!
Loved the video makes me want to see the movie.Going on from this could you have a look at A Cure For Wellness🤗
nice insights
Yet another comment.
Review Luc Besson's movie "The Fifth Element" supporting it with its creative consultant Jean "Moebius/Gir" Giraud, French Illustrator.
Ok... I LOVE THIS MAN :O
Set designer: "HB pencils and highlighters." - Architect: "No thanks I'll bring my own."
One of my favorite movies, thank you for covering this. How about looking into Gotham City from Batman Returns next?
Why is an architect criticizing colors and design here? It's not that I don't like his color critique, I am just repulsed by it.
I just found these vids, and I'm really enjoying them, but please stop using the new 2020s era annoying expression "very sort of" when describing things. It's either very, or it's sort of, but not both ;-)
The bathhouse was the local ”Wasserheil- und Bade-Anstalt” in which our one-armed ”life guard” bumped us back from the poolsides with his two-meters-stick to ”teach” us swimming several decades ago …
so here's what jumps out at me
Mind blowing analysis...hats off
I really enjoyed this, for what it's worth. Thank you for sharing your insight, such as it is, and indeed as it must be.
I would very much like to see a breakdown of Orchard House from Little Women movies. I believe at least one iteration of the story might have been filmed in the actual Orchard House...?
The architecture/design breakdown of "The Severance" Lumon office would be a good video I think...
Michael Wyetzner, what is that silver item you are holding? Is that a laser pointer, a mechanical pen, or what? Thanks much.
If you look closely, you'll notice it says Grand Budapest Hotel just above the door, as well as way up high, even in the original shot of the model.
Excellent talk.
I am really enjoying your videos: am gradually going thru them.
I always love the examples you guys provide because so many of them tickle my classical revivalist heart. I really do love that overly ornamented design language. Brutalist, abstract, and minimalist architectural styles really just don't do much for me, particularly when you are dealing with such a large canvas as a hotel or department store, or civic center, etc. Is the classical revival style the best? No, not necessarily, but I still prefer it. It always brings an air of class to any place that still has structures in this style.
TIL that mansard roofs were stylishly used to cut corners around zoning laws. I would’ve never known.
The plural of "atrium" is "atria".
Also, the main entrance in the wide-shot of the hotel front is, except for the sign, the same as the entrance in the close-up shot. Wyetzner perhaps needs new glasses.
Hi Michael, have you spoken about The Great Gatsby homes for the 2013 film?
To stay with Wes Anderson I would love to have a look at the Tenenbaum house and its real exterior in New York.