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Glass Tower on Apple's New Shanghai Store Revealed

EnigMoiD said:
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.
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lol POO-DONG just 1UP'd you -combine immaturation-

definitely a nice structure in the center of the almost-circle.
 
Maybe they could have spent some of that money on fixing this reception issue in a recall or something?
 
crookedbill said:
i live in washington dc and we reserve grandiose monuments like that for presidents and national heroes, not a consumer brand.
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well, considering the entire CITY of DC is a monument to corruption and graft... this actually doesn't look too bad. :D
 
Xtremehkr said:
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.
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the primary purpose of an apple retail store is to get people into the store and allow the apple staff in the store to focus on the showing the products and user experience apple offers with those products (and to sell apple products as well)

if the staff are as good as the store looks then apple are going to make a lot of money
 
Very nice! Is any other company that makes retail stores look like some monumental works of art?
 
dmelgar said:
I presume there's more than the one exit in case of emergency?
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I though the exact thing myself. Also, the whole grounds layout looks like one big bulls-eye target for anything flying above it.

There are complex relations between the USA and China. I shudder think of a video of this were the whole glass tower shatters in an explosion as a piece of anti-USA propaganda.

I'm sure there are emergency evacuation tunnels or hallways the lets one run to street level. Out here, any retail outlet has to have at least two public accessible exits in event of an emergency and more exits based on the capacity of the facility.

I'm sure it will do well.
 
Xtremehkr said:
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.
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Oh..you mean like Microsoft and their retail stores? ahahahaha
 
Underground store, set in a section of land lower than what surrounds it. Surely I'm not the only one imagining the horrors of water damage resulting from a heavy rain. :eek:

It certainly looks neat though.
 
Amazing.

But more importantly. What is a sixteen year old youngster (Matthew Lesh) from down under Melbourne, Australia, doing in Shanghai? Selling Syncode are we, Matthew?
 
When a store looks like that, you know you can't afford to buy anything in it.
 
Xtremehkr said:
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.
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I agree with you. I love Apple and always support them. This is first time I've felt odd, like dirty.

I wish they'd tone it down some.
 
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