Glass Tower on Apple's New Shanghai Store Revealed

[MacRumors]

As noted by ifoAppleStore earlier today, Apple has begun removing the wraps from the cylindrical glass tower at its new retail store in the Pudong district of Shanghai. Like the company's flagship store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, the Pudong store is located below ground level and utilizes the glass tower as an iconic entryway with a glass stairway descending to the store below.

Flickr user Lesh51 has posted several photos from the site, including an interesting aerial view showing the glass tower rising out of a central plaza at the International Finance Center.

The Pudong store is set to open this Saturday at 10:00 AM.

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[quigleybc]

I think i speak for a lot of people when i say "holy crap"

 

[srl7741]

Very neat, wish I could actually go there and see it for myself.

 

[Theclamshell]

That is so awesome, i want to go

 

[Gakboi]

nice work, no1 in design alright

 

[AbSoluTc]

"Innovative & MAGICAL!"

 

[Rayfire]

Dang, that's awesome!

 

[cyberspread]

Wow. Awesome!!!

 

[neilg]

Looks amazing!

 

[dmelgar]

I presume there's more than the one exit in case of emergency?

 

[Xtremehkr]

SJs desire to have Apple be a cultural icon is getting a little bit excessive.

The primary objective should always be to focus on the product and the end user experience.

 

[kevinkt]

That's hot. Watch Microsoft is gonna copy. Lawl

 

[EnigMoiD]

Hehe... Pudong... glass tower... can't believe nobody's caught that yet.
Sorry.

But it looks really cool, really fits in with the surrounding buildings very well.

 

[ChazUK]

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Very sleek!

 

[Hankus]

Apple is on crack.

 

[vile]

amazing T_T

 

[Peace]

Irony

 

[Cubert]

It looks like a keyhole with the Apple store as the key.

Symbolism, perhaps?

 

[Eraserhead]

So Shanghai gets a New York style flagship store. Interesting.

 

[crookedbill]

looks ridiculous and excessive to me. i live in washington dc and we reserve grandiose monuments like that for presidents and national heroes, not a consumer brand. fitting for a place like china though, i guess. gotta build something big to compete with the giant portraits of chairman mao.

 

[Eraserhead]

looks ridiculous and excessive to me. i live in washington dc and we reserve grandiose monuments like that for presidents and national heroes, not a consumer brand.

Yep, its only Shanghai that has a store like this...

gotta build something big to compete with the giant portraits of chairman mao.

What, all one of them?

 

[ts1973]

So that's where our money goes to

 

[Gator24765]

looks awesome!

 

[Gav2k]

So Shanghai gets a New York style flagship store. Interesting.

Shanghai should get a flagship store. I'd be willing to bet money that apple didn't pay for the store either!

 

[cleanup]

I lived down the street from the site of the IFC a few years ago, at Shimao Riviera Gardens. It was just finishing construction when I left.

I think it's ridiculous how much space is being devoted to that plaza & the Apple entrance, but that's Shanghai for you. Opulence.