Flagship San Francisco Apple Store Approved by Planning Commission

[acslater017]

Jony Ive should design traffic bollards for the front of that place. I can see already that some idiot will one day want to ram his car through those doors!

They'd have to find a gap in the parked cars, jump the curb, and plow through about 10 tourists but I would suppose it's not any more or less vulnerable than any other glass storefront.

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Open doors that size would generate one impressive A/C bill.
No doubt Apple already had its CO2 offsets/indulgences already sorted.

They would presumably only leave the doors open on nice days anyway (?)

 

[AZREOSpecialist]

The real victory is they saved the fountain, and all the anti-art naysayers on this board lost: Apple made room for it.

You mean this piece of crap?

Some things deserve to be torn down.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

Of all the architecturally interesting projects they've done, I'm amazed they find this envelope-filling box acceptable at all, much less for their flagship location.

Actually, I'm surprised it hasn't got circular footprint, allowing for the desired public space, greater view corridor, unique presence, & matching form of their local mothership, etc etc etc. If anyone can swing a circular flagship store, it's Apple.

Instead, it's just another grey glass box that disappears into a sea of other grey glass boxes.

Weird.

 

[bbbb4b]

What I found most interesting about this is that Apple was asked to provide better accessibility to the 2nd floor. From the images I've seen so far, it looks like two staircases are the only methods of getting to the upper level. I thought federal law required elevators, but maybe I'm wrong.

I'm also curious about the area for the staff. Usually Apple includes hidden meeting rooms and repair facilities. But this store doesn't seem to allow for any of that. Perhaps those facilities are underground? There's nowhere else to put them with such a slender store design

Wow. Lot of assumptions from just a one-sided picture of a model of a building.

No such thing as a two-story Apple Store without an elevator. Doesn't exist.
Hell, never mind ADA compliance; what, did you think Apple staff just hike all that stock up and down staircases all day? When delivery trucks arrive with pallets of brand new iMacs, do the staff form a long "bucket brigade" up the stairs?

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You mean this piece of crap?

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Some things deserve to be torn down.

People who aren't too bright always say that about art. Always...

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Of all the architecturally interesting projects they've done, I'm amazed they find this envelope-filling box acceptable at all, much less for their flagship location.

Actually, I'm surprised it hasn't got circular footprint, allowing for the desired public space, greater view corridor, unique presence, & matching form of their local mothership, etc etc etc. If anyone can swing a circular flagship store, it's Apple.

Instead, it's just another grey glass box that disappears into a sea of other grey glass boxes.

Weird.

So, you want "form over function" here.
Yeah, that sounds about like Apple. :-/

 

[elTylerr]

You mean this piece of crap?

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Some things deserve to be torn down.

Apple was like "this ugly thing needs to GO!"... it really isn't that great, I agree with you, some things aren't worth staying.

 

[Judas1]

I have to ask. Why? Why is there such a huge sliding glass door? Will people be entering the second floor from the outside?

 

[ThunderSkunk]

So, you want "form over function" here.
Yeah, that sounds about like Apple. :-/

No. In architecture, there's a thing we try to avoid, which is taking the envelope, and filling every possible inch of it with a box. The process of avoiding this is called "design". Form and function are not separate entities, unless you are a poor designer.

This dull featureless box wouldn't seem like such an uninspired disappointment if they hadn't displayed such a keen sense of this in nearly every other building they've designed. Like this:

They are quite capable of better.

 

[sunspot42]

Oh joy

The real victory is they saved the fountain, and all the anti-art naysayers on this board lost: Apple made room for it.

Oh goodie! The homeless will be so delighted that their urinal / bidet has been preserved.

 

[WaxedJacket]

When all is said and done it is just another glass and steel block.

You must be a riot to hang around lol.

 

[weckart]

You must be a riot to hang around lol.

Sorry that I won't be joining you licking the windows with your best friends.

 

[DeadPlank]

What is this? An Apple store for ants?

 

[bbbb4b]

No. In architecture, there's a thing we try to avoid, which is taking the envelope, and filling every possible inch of it with a box. The process of avoiding this is called "design". Form and function are not separate entities, unless you are a poor designer.

This dull featureless box wouldn't seem like such an uninspired disappointment if they hadn't displayed such a keen sense of this in nearly every other building they've designed. Like this:

They are quite capable of better.

"Form and function are not separate entities"
That was my point. And therefor, it sounds like you are simply a bad designer.

"dull" "featureless" "uninspired" is simply your interpretation of what's going on with this structure.

But nobody GARA about your interpretation.

 

[mazz0]

"Form and function are not separate entities"
That was my point. And therefor, it sounds like you are simply a bad designer.

"dull" "featureless" "uninspired" is simply your interpretation of what's going on with this structure.

But nobody GARA about your interpretation.

I GARA about their interpretation.

 

[melburstein]

Open doors that size would generate one impressive A/C bill. .

San Francisco has natural A/C.