Comments on: Cruise ships: The architecture of overstimulation.

By: A Few Words About My First Cruise « THE WORD O’ WHEATON

A Few Words About My First Cruise « THE WORD O’ WHEATON — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:20:30 +0000

[...] like something puked up from 1989. (A friend of mine went on a different Carnival ship last year but her photos are representative.) Hell, maybe it was someone’s idea of luxury at some point, but elevators should never be [...]

By: c-monster

c-monster — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:02:51 +0000

wow. that makes me want to see it more…

By: robin hill

robin hill — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:50:10 +0000

not his best work…the design remained unfinished because of a funding problem…so the front of the ship looks like a dolphin and the back looks like the back of a garbage truck…scintillatingly contradictory….

By: c-monster

c-monster — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:12:53 +0000

dang dude… you are a jack of all trades… i’ve got look up those renzo piano ships…

By: robin hill

robin hill — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:41:04 +0000

I worked on The Sovereign of the Seas back in the late 80′s when it was the world’s largest cruise ship…our nickname for it was ‘sovereign of the sleaze’…for reasons other than the Architecture! However…back in the day we all complained that it looked like a large wedge of cheese especially compared to the older liners which used to grace the seas, like the Normandie or the Norway whose elegant lines remind me of poetic Architecture such as Alvar Aalto and Eero Saarinen. The sovereign clamoured for greatness but its wedge shape never allowed its lines to breathe…The 7 story centrum at the time was a new ‘wow’ factor that had one looking up and all around and its space allowed a lot of social interaction to take place…the ship was wildly successful as a profit making enterprise…and its basic form has been borrowed by many other ships since…There have been a couple of well known architects that designed ships…Renzo Piani designed the Crown and Regal Princess, which looked like a pair of dolphins and Morris lapidus was Ted Arison’s Architect of choice when he started Carnival Cruise Lines.