New York firm Work AC just debuted its planned renovation to Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum; the architects are creating a new entrance and circulation plan for the original 1970s concrete building. [via A/N Blog]

Peep five of the most ambitious museum projects never built (hel-lo, Guggenheim portfolio). [via Huffington Post]

A new modern, eco-friendly home for the Jesuit priests at Fairfield University in Connecticut is profiled by Architizer pal Fred Bernstein. [via New York Times]

The two co-founders of Nord (Northern Office for Research & Design) have apparently split after almost a decade together; you may recall the firm’s recent Shingle Houses in Dungeness, part of Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project profiled here. [via BD Online]

Ukranian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov paid $221 million in cash for a penthouse apartment in London created by joining two five-bedroom 12,500 square-foot units into a 25,000 square-foot apartment “complete with a wine cellar.” [via Curbed]

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The year was 1966 and coming off of a successful showing at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, Walt Disney decided to unveil his plans for the creation of Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow — EPCOT — in Florida. (Bonus fact: Disney’s father was a carpenter who worked on the iconic 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, the “White City.”)

This plan, known by many as “The Florida Project”, was not simply to create an east coast version of Disneyland, but to develop a community of the future. In a 24-minute video Disney explains his prototype world would be made up of four parts; the Magic Kingdom theme park and an inhabited radial city (EPCOT city), an industrial park and a welcome center. All four parts of the masterplan would be connected by a monorail system that ran throughout the property.

The EPCOT effect on contemporary architecture, after the jump:

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