Night World

Night World was a proposed large-scale playground in a fantastical setting to be developed in central Florida, near the Walt Disney World Resort. It was to be a night-time entertainment center and alternate venue for the vast numbers of people who would be visiting Disney World during the daytime. The plan consisted of four major facilities: an automobile spiral, cabaret dome, movie dome, and theater dome as well as shops, exhibits, and television studio, all amidst a water park. Most of the complex would be housed beneath a vast tent structure, similar to the lightweight structures designed by Frei Otto. The focal point of the complex would be a dramatic restaurant tower rising above the site.

The campus of complex fantastical, futuristic structures was defined by curving lines and fluid spaces punctuated by the individual structures. The buildings, although futuristic, were not without historical precedent. The Cabaret Dome recalls Claude-Nicolas LeDoux's 1775 design for the Besançon Theater. However, the most flamboyant structure was the Automobile Spiral, where Goldberg's suspended mast structure, first used in the North Pole Ice Cream store, reappears in a fantastical form. Conceived of as a perpetual auto show where cars could be both seen and driven, this was to be a monolithic concrete structure containing a double helix driveway supported from a central mast by a cable structure. The complex was never built.