Apple's Plans for New Flagship San Francisco Store Receiving Criticism

[samcraig]

Let's assume they remove it. I would say...starting about 2 miles away from the site, nobody not searching for info on this particular fountain would ever see it.

As I said in my OP, and can easily be seen right in this thread when reviewing only posts from local residents, this is a very localized political issue that happens to involve Apple. It wouldn't be news on any sort of scale if it didn't involve Apple. The city could easily tell any developer to incorporate the fountain in a new design. Why aren't they?

I have no idea what you are or are not trying to prove. This site references an article from someone IN San Francisco. The publication in question isn't from IOWA or the UK.

It's a local "issue" if you can even call it that - that was written by a local. The fact that it's Apple and that someone wants to claim it's really ONLY because of Apple is silly.

If this were WalMart or some other big company that was, in the writer of the SF Article's opinion, designing a building he didn't like and/or removing a piece of history he has interest in - I'm pretty sure he would have written his article. Except where you see Apple - it would be whatever company it was.

Or maybe the author has some "beef" with Apple.

Fact is - you don't know. And I really don't know. But I'm not the one asserting that it is automatically JUST because it's Apple.

 

[lazard]

Let's assume they remove it. I would say...starting about 2 miles away from the site, nobody not searching for info on this particular fountain would ever see it.

As I said in my OP, and can easily be seen right in this thread when reviewing only posts from local residents, this is a very localized political issue that happens to involve Apple. It wouldn't be news on any sort of scale if it didn't involve Apple. The city could easily tell any developer to incorporate the fountain in a new design. Why aren't they?

MacRumors pulled the article from the San Francisco Chronicle. It's not like the article was published in the NY Times or The Washington Post.

 

[sunspot42]

As-if.

PRuth Asawa is a universally loved artist.

Clearly not "universally loved", judging from the overwhelmingly negative reaction to that eyesore of a fountain.

An effing Starbucks is more visually appealing.

Like I said though, Soviet-style art. The proletariat are ordered to like it because of who created it, not because of what it is.

Heaven forbid!

 

[di1in]

Well, one may not like the fountain but that plaza is quite nice and it'd be a shame to loose it for a box.

On an architectural/engineering note the designer is an idiot that obviously doesn't take location into account because a huge glass wall with direct sunlight all day will turn that box into an oven. The PG&E bills in the summer and fall will probably cost more then their likely to sell in a month...

The glass faces the north/south while the concrete opaque walls face the east/west. That is how the building is planned. The kind of heat that you predict, will not enter the building.

 

[samcraig]

Haha well if that's the criteria for a PR issue then Apple's press office would be working 24/7 365 days as every day there's tons of stories that hit the online press complaining about something Apple related. This is a non-story that made it to the front page of Apple rumor sites because they have nothing else to report (Apple actually is doubling down on security this year).

Still a non-story?

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1588771/

 

[Gudi]

That is a truly ugly store design. I'm really surprised - Apple usually takes more care to blend into their surroundings.

Make up your mind! Do you want a nice store or one that blends with its surroundings?

It's like Tim Cook said: „People pay Apple to make decisions for them.“
Apple decided, it's better for SF to have a nice store, contrary to local architectural traditions.