{"id":6655,"date":"2011-02-28T11:16:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T11:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=6655"},"modified":"2011-02-28T11:16:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T11:16:05","slug":"theme-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/theme-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Qasr-Al-Sarab-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Qasr-Al-Sarab-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"517\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Qasr-Al-Sarab-1.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Qasr-Al-Sarab-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Qasr-Al-Sarab-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Qasr-Al-Sarab-1-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Qasr-Al-Sarab-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Qasr-Al-Sarab-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"517\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Qasr-Al-Sarab-2.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Qasr-Al-Sarab-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Qasr-Al-Sarab-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Qasr-Al-Sarab-2-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a>A design without a concept is usually not worth much. Where is the boundary where a concept becomes a theme? Where is the boundary where a theme becomes kitsch? And where is the boundary where a concept becomes art? Is there a context in which we can compare <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Disneyland\">Disneyland <\/a> with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garden_of_Cosmic_Speculation\">Garden of Cosmic Speculation<\/a>? Or with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little_Sparta\">Little Sparta<\/a>? Is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rousham_House\">Rousham <\/a>merely an Augustan Theme Park? And where does <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portmeirion\">Portmeirion <\/a>fit in? Many clients &#8211; particularly in young, brash economies &#8211; confuse themes and concepts, how can we advise them? Does the West still have noble, Augustan-type concepts to offer the world, or do we only do cartoons these days?<\/p>\n<p>The images show the <a href=\"http:\/\/qasralsarab.anantara.com\/\">Qasr Al Sarab<\/a> Hotel on the fringe of Abu Dhabi&#8217;s Liwa Desert, based on an image engineer&#8217;s imagination of Arabia and very Disneyesque in its dreamweaving &#8211; but ultimately inauthentic &#8211; attention to detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A design without a concept is usually not worth much. Where is the boundary where a concept becomes a theme? Where is the boundary where a theme becomes kitsch? And where is the boundary where a concept becomes art? Is there a context in which we can compare Disneyland with the Garden of Cosmic Speculation? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}