The aerial archive

Small table seating in the Stella Nova dining areas.

The community table in Stella Nova. An increasingly common feature in resort hotels. A long table where guests define the use. In business hotels they tend to become gathering places for teams to work together or to socialize.

Some of the dining areas in Stella Nova. Curved features, including sweeping shapes in the floor, cause individual rooms.

The Stella Nova lobby is an open space, where curved features causes spaces to become individual rooms.

Center of the Stella Nova lobby.

Stella Nova walk-in grand opening photo op.

A pair of interesting chairs in Stella Nova resort.

Likely that this traffic circle in Epic Blvd near Destination Pwy will be redone. Incoming traffic works well. Exiting traffic, such as truck seen, will likely result in a huge snarl at the Destination Pwy light. People changing their mind for left or right turn. No room for it.

A look at colorful dichroic stainless steel tiles from the base of Stella Nova. Each was acid-treated. A different hue results from the amount of acid applied.

An area of Stella Nova where you can get close to the colorful stainless steel tiles.

Porte-cochère of Stella Nova.

Mist in the air from the waterfall area of Donkey Kong Country in Epic Universe. Water testing too? As seen from Stella Nova resort, Jan 21.

View of the Epic Universe area raised traffic circle. As seen from Stella Nova resort. Also approx 2.5 to 3 miles away: 1 Aventura Hotel 2 Hogwarts Castle 3 Doctor Doom's Fearfall and 4 Dockside Inn, approx 1.8 miles away.

View from Epic Blvd of the Universal bus stop at Epic Universe. Left and right are Chronos and the mountain in the Isle of Berk.

A look at the bridge at Stella Nova's access road. It crosses a longtime drainage canal in the site. This canal drains into Shingle Creek, headwaters of the Florida Everglades.