How many birds are gonna fly into this thing? Not to mention **** all over it.
It's somewhat disgusting the way planning comities / local governments pander to Apple.
Reminds me of the recent Cupertino city council meeting. The 'officials' were practically gushing over Steve Jobs and showing off their iPad's - it was cringeworthy.
At least pretend you're a professional...
Of cause it was auto-approved.
Apple say jump and the world says how high.
The only ones who do not are the combatants of the patent wars.
What about earthquake regs?
The structure has to meet CA/SM building codes. Note that 63 people died in the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake near San Francisco, while about 100,000 died in the 7.0 Haiti earthquake of 2010 and 26,000 in the 2003 Bam earthquake. California building codes are responsible for much of that difference in mortality (and the codes are constantly updated based on studies of failures - due to the Loma Prieta and Northridge earthquakes many changes were made to the codes).
While the mockup drawings make it look like the UWS store adjusted to fit into a true rectangle, I would expect that the actual engineering will be quite a bit different from the Manhattan store.
For one, the Manhattan store has to be built to handle 8 feet of wet snow on the glass roof (according to a post on the 5th Avenue Cube V2 thread) - not an issue in SoCal. In SM, the focus will be on making the building flexible - so that as a seismic wave moves through the building different parts can move in different directions at the same time, without failing.
I just don't see how a building with a glass roof can be safe in an earthquake.
Actually, they should open a Apple store under the Louvre Pyramid, they got enough money to buy it
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Great idea, but Apple already built an Apple Store under the Louvre Pyramid. You'll be getting your patent infringement in the mail soon.![]()
Well glass can be mad very strong.
Also the glass is not required to survive the earth quake as long as it breaks into pieces no bigger than about a quarter. What is required not to fail is the frame and the structure. The glass is not required to be part of the structure as long as if it comes out of the frame it comes out in broken pieces.
Tons of glass raining down from a substantial height can still be deadly, even if the pieces are small.
What I find notable, and slightly depressing, is that this Apple Store is replacing a Boarders. Books are old hat, it seems. Out with the paper in with the tablets.
I thought Apple cared about the environment. This is going to cause a huge amount of light pollution as the illumination from the brightly lit interior spills straight up through the roof and into the night sky.
You obviously didn't read my post in the other thread. I have lived in Southern California for 44 of my 44 years including 11 in the OC. I think I know what I'm talking about. But since you say temperatures greater than 80F are a common occurrence in OC, you've proven my point even further given that the Crystal Cathedral, where summertime mid-day temps are at least 10 degrees on average higher than they are in Santa Monica, has no air conditioning. Then I think it's safe to say that if they chose not to install an artificial cooling system within the store, they would probably do just fine.
Each time I have worshiped in the Crystal Cathedral, it has been in the middle of summer in the middle of the day with approximate 1,500 fellow worshipers, and each time I have felt quite comfortable.
Next time read BEFORE you speak.
Edit:
I will give you a slight break. My sentence about how it rarely gets above 80F may have been a bit ambiguous. My intention was to refer to how it rarely gets above 80 degrees on 3rd Street in Santa Monica. But given that Garden Grove is in western OC, and not in a valley, it does get a direct breeze off the ocean much like most of the cities in Los Angeles Basin that have no land mass obstruction, temps don't get much above 80F there either. I'm not sure where you live, but I grew up in the South Bay about 5 or 6 miles east of the coast (about the same distance the Crystal Cathedral is from the coast) and we never had air conditioning and we were blessed with temperate breezes almost every day.