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Apple Cancels Federation Square Store in Australia After Demolition Plans Were Denied
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Businesses can be a strong proponent of positive change. it just matters whose running that business and what their overall goals are.
The City has an obligation first and foremost to its citizens. It should not be preserving buildings it feels are worthy of being preserved due to its "own reasons" even if there is only "1 protester."
There is nothing historic or significant about an abysmal-looking building that is barely 15 years old.
the city has decided for it's citizens to preserve the building.
should the citizens desire something else, than they, through their elected representatives can petition and discuss with those representatives their opinions on the matter.
Australia is a representative democracy after all. your opinion sounds like just because it's not 100+ years old, than nobody should be allowed to consider it heritage and therefore it's free game for business to tell municipalities what buildings should be torn down.
that is NOT a winning position in most of the world. if A Municipality decides to preserve a building, it is businesses who must adapt and go elsewhere.
Business does not trump government in a lot of the world.
The tiles are good. There are several similar buildings there. You remove all or nothing.
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I don’t necessarily like Apple’s ultraminimalism but the Yarra strikes me as being quite ugly. To my eye there is no artistic aesthetic being demonstrated. It just looks... haphazard.
Was it really "the locals"? Or just a small pack of highly influential locals?
In my experience when things like this get squashed it's almost always due to the latter.
Australia: It's not just an eyesore, it is our eyesore. Never mind the space usage is minimal. It is our memories keeping this turd alive.
Creative destruction is not part of our ethos.
Creative destruction is not part of our ethos.
The Yara building doesn't look attractive from the pics, but if it holds significance to the local people that doesn't matter. Why does Apple have to build on that particular spot? There isn't another empty lot or leaseholder they could buy out?
This might seem like a victory for the people, but if the people actually visited Fed Square this wouldn’t have been an issue in the first place.
The fact is Fed Square is going broke. It hasn’t turned a profit in over 15 years and keeps requiring more money from the government. A marquee tenant like Apple may have helped turn the place around, but the people have decided the the price of changing the building is too high.
Hopefully the people will put to use this re-discovered passion for Fed Square by visiting it helping the square attract new (less invasive) tenants.
If not, the whole thing is likely to wither and die.
The fact is Fed Square is going broke. It hasn’t turned a profit in over 15 years and keeps requiring more money from the government. A marquee tenant like Apple may have helped turn the place around, but the people have decided the the price of changing the building is too high.
Hopefully the people will put to use this re-discovered passion for Fed Square by visiting it helping the square attract new (less invasive) tenants.
If not, the whole thing is likely to wither and die.
Yes, I am comparing both because both projects had considerable controversies at the time. Though of different styles both were considered too "modern" for their time. Both projects went over their estimates. Federation Square was estimated to cost $120 Miliion AUD but actually cost $450 Million AUD. I forgot what the Opera House was estimated to build v. actual.
I remember the outrage over the Sydney Opera House design. I remember the outrage over the Pyramide du Louvre in Paris. I remember the outrage over the Guggenheim Museum in NYC.
Art, fashion, and architecture evolve through controversy, mediocracy, acceptance, then embracement.
You cannot compare those with something that looks like some tiles were kludged over a mediocre building.
Well, a lot of design experts here.
Read this article:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-20/federation-square-building-demolished-for-apple-store/9275498
Then tell me that the Apple Store looks like it will fit right in...
I am forever impressed that there is singularly gorgeous weather on designers' illustrations of the projected completed building. You never see clouds, rain, fog or anything other than sunshine and happy shoppers walking by.
I see. What I like = normal, what others like = weirdos. I think there is plenty of room for denial, here.
your post can only be intepretted as saying
"Stop liking what I don't like"
and in response.
NO. I will like what I like. You like what you like. But your subjective opinion on an artistic thing has no bearing on my subjective opinion.
Seriously. It's refreshing that there are still things in this world that are more important than Apple's ambitions and their ego.
Why is it “ego” to want to build a store someplace?
A restaurant opened downtown. Oh the ego of those people!
