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Apple Reveals Fifth Avenue Cube Plans: Larger, Seamless Glass Panes
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I give up. They replace the broken pane?
They'll probably do what they did before with the previous iteration of the cube, right?
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That's seriously perfect. Lol!
That's seriously perfect. Lol!
In addition to the cube, Apple also plans to remove protective bollards, install new pavers around the perimeter, and remove and install surrounding water drains.
I made a replica of the old one on halo reach in forge, it was strenuose because even when I cut the squares from like 90 to 64 it was a stretch I ran out of pieces. But now i can make it perfectly. Its the only thing I like to do in the form of a video game.
Well I am pretty sure the glass is pretty shatterproof but I hope no one does. I really would like to meet the designer because apple stores ALWAYS look fantastic- the one in convent garden, London has a fantastic interior. I might even go to the southland applestore opening.
Also apple I have to say as amazing as they do look compared to the ones in the UK or the US the Aussie stores aren't as fancy (I do understand that they are all in shopping centres at the moment). Don't get me wrong I think the ones at Chadstone or Doncaster are really nice but the interior and exterior is not as good looking as the USA or UK stores or even the China or Europe ones.
But if I go to NY next year that is the first place I am gonna go(5th ave apple store) even before my hotel
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Said the troll with Apple in his nick on the pro-mac forum ...
See what I mean?
I think Steve invented glass, didn't he? Next thing you know, Apple will be suing anyone with glass windows in their buildings and people who where eyeglasses. What came first, Steve or the egg?
Of course! Someone always gets there before me
Technically you're talking about the wrong property of glass that would withstand a sharp impact. What you're speaking of is compressive strength, and we need tensile strength (pressure required to break).
Not completely putting your calculation aside, it also gives an indication to how thick the glass is. Likely to be a good inch+ thick, and we don't even know what kind of glass type they're using. For all we know it could withstand a car impact.
The walls would (theoretically) be under strict compression. The horizontal pieces making up the roof would be under compression and tension. (Compression at the top of the pane, tension along the bottom.)
Tensile strength is not the "pressure required to break" it's how well a material performs under tension. Tension is a pulling force, it's the force that the rod the giant in the cube is hanging from is under.
A thrown rock will subject glass to both tension and compression, it's the brittleness of the material that will cause it to break.
They would have to throw very very hard. Like the fastest pitcher in the league probably wouldn't be able to throw fast enough hard to even mark the glass.
Someone shot the Apple store in Sydney which one of the first to use this overlapping laminated glass. Even that only managed a pock mark on the glass.
I wonder how long it will be until it is made of only 5
Please Apple, use one glass brick and carve it out like the unibody MacBook...
I had the pleasure to meet on of the managers from the german company that is responsible for those glas panels.
He mentioned the rebuild of the cube a couple weeks ago to me. He told me they started their own glas manufactury cause they were not able to find someone else to do such panels in the requested quality. And because they did it - they now can rebuild the cube with only those 15 panels.
'Made in Germany' sometimes still rules
Heres the company homepage: http://www.seele.com/ - they have some more very interesting projects..
He mentioned the rebuild of the cube a couple weeks ago to me. He told me they started their own glas manufactury cause they were not able to find someone else to do such panels in the requested quality. And because they did it - they now can rebuild the cube with only those 15 panels.
'Made in Germany' sometimes still rules
Heres the company homepage: http://www.seele.com/ - they have some more very interesting projects..
I had the pleasure to meet on of the managers from the german company that is responsible for those glas panels.
He mentioned the rebuild of the cube a couple weeks ago to me. He told me they started their own glas manufactury cause they were not able to find someone else to do such panels in the requested quality. And because they did it - they now can rebuild the cube with only those 15 panels.
'Made in Germany' sometimes still rules
Heres the company homepage: http://www.seele.com/ - they have some more very interesting projects..
Next project, 2nd impact. Then giant robots that fight against angels.
(Neon Genesis Evangelion reference in case anybody didn't know)
but wow, i browsed through the website and i'm amazed at how beautiful the designs are.