Building Arendelle Castle at World of Frozen: A collaboration between Walt Disney Imagineering Paris and UK Loco Ltd

Building Arendelle Castle at World of Frozen: A collaboration between Walt Disney Imagineering Paris and UK Loco Ltd

Arendelle Castle has been created for Disney Adventure World through the combined work of Walt Disney Imagineering Paris and UK Loco Ltd, a United Kingdom based theming and engineering company in Cropthorne and a long-standing supplier to Disneyland Paris. Together, the teams have translated the world of Walt Disney Animation Studios Frozen into a built environment designed to feel cohesive, believable, and richly detailed.

The castle draws on a distinctive architectural language. Its design blends the foundations of a fortified castle with rooflines inspired by Norwegian stave churches (stavkirkes), referencing well-known examples such as Borgund, dating from the 12th century. Translating those influences into themed construction requires precision: layered roof forms, refined silhouettes and surface finishes that hold up from multiple viewpoints, at different distances and in changing light.