Why is breakers West so ugly?

This is coming from an Architectural standpoint and reflects my personal biases on the subject. But the new breakers West is one of the ugliest hotels I have ever seen, and as bad as it is the Breakers Express is even uglier. All it is, is a white wall puncutaed by boring plain windows, with a flat boring roof. There is no attempt to reveal the building structure on the outside, or the individual room partitions (from the outside). This assesment however is only based on the view onto it from the park(which I am guessing is what 90% of the people who see it view it from). Does anyone know why it is so boring of a building, I mean it hardly even looks like a hotel?
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Who cares what the hotel looks like from the outside? As long as it's clean and decently priced, it could look like a tin shack for all I care.

You could build it with the same high detail that the origional Breakers was built with, but by today's standards that would extremely expensive and would not be very economical. New construction today uses maerials that are relativly cheap to cut corners to lower the cost of construction. That's the same reason you don't see new churches being built of stone and gargoils and things.
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You don't like the hospital wing? :)

Actually the front of it isn't bad with all of the screened balconies and such. It also looks nice with the TGI Friday's and indoor pool inset on the front side.

Hey, it's no Grand Floridian in Orlando...

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http://cedarpoint.virtualave.net/history/images/tower.jpg
In this photo from Cedar Point-on-Lake Erie, the hotel wing looks nice. They kind of got the look of the old Breakers with the two corners, just they didn't top them.

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it is pretty ugly...surprising cedar point would go that route. definitely dollars over aesthetics.

my friends and I call it the "college dorm wing" or the Branch Dividian.

Because the architect just said, "awww, the heck with it, I can't make it look good with all of those architectural masterpieces out on the peninsula. So why even try?"

Granted, the outside is non-descript but no doubt it was the money. Why isn't Raptor themed like a snowski lift? CF, with the exception of W.O.F. and Knott's, does not theme. WOF and KBF were true "theme" parks before CF took over. It would be silly for CF not to continue to theme those parks.

Breakers is a convenient place to sleep. However, if you ever get a chance to see the Presidential Suite on the top floor....WOW! They spared no expense there. Sandusky is neither Orlando or Vegas so a themed hotel won't be missed.

I always thaught it looked like a prison.

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If it looks like a prison are you guaranteed 3 hots and a cot?

I am not talking about themeing it but at least add some decoration to the outside of it. I think it so so ugly because all the of the people staying there have made reservations. So there isn't too many people deciding to stay there on the spur of the the moment, or "walk-ins". Breakers express on the otherhand is a different story. Plop down any Holiday Inn or Radisson next to breakers and see who gets the most business. Most people will choose the hotel that looks nicer, not having any idea what it looks like on the inside.

On another note. I think the Architect had a wasted opportunity. That of creating a modern Architectural masterpeice, juxtaposed to a turn of the century masterpeice. But I wonder if there even was and Architect on the project.

its not ugly if you know the histery behind it.

The whole point is there never will be a Holiday Inn or Radisson plopped down next to the Breakers so it really won't matter. If CP decided to create a "modern Architectural masterpiece", how much do you think the rooms would have gone for?

How many people are riding M.F., looking over at the Breakers, and saying to themselves..."I need a place to stay tonight but that Hotel Breakers looks like a prison?"