Team Disney reflecting pools drain away Wed, 28 Jul 2010 Looks like Walt Disney World managers have decided to fill in the reflecting pools in front of Team Disney, the resort’s eccentric, cruise-ship-shaped administrative headquarters. The 20-year-old Team Disney building was designed by celebrated Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, who once likened it to a ship sailing through the sea (though some casual critics have ridiculed it as a nuclear power plant or submarine instead). It’s part of the legacy of former Walt Disney Co. boss Michael Eisner, who commissioned several famous architects to design buildings for his company (including Michael Graves to design the Swan and Dolphin hotels). The most distinctive feature: A 120-foot-tall, pastel-colored cone — meant to look like a ship’s funnel — that opens to a giant sun dial in the center of the 400,000-square-foot office building. Alas, leaking from the two outside reflecting pools is said to have bedeviled Disney for years. So now, after countless, apparently unsuccessful, efforts to plug those leaks, Disney is instead filling them in. WDWmemories is your source for high resolution Disney World photos. View other stories on the Disney News Archive