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Glass Tower on Apple's New Shanghai Store Revealed
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It's just an ego p***ing contest. If this were any other tech. company other than Apple, people would be b****ing about excess.
HOT . . We have a box they have a cylinder.
Apple (is building a) store under the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris too.
Ok that is freaking cool......
He shoots for the entire experience from end to end to be superior.
Can't really fault him for aiming higher than everyone else.
Absolutely stunning!
Just makes me wonder though... why does Steve hate Canada so much? We have shoe-boxes in pedestrian malls for Apple Stores. I went to the grand opening of Canada's first Apple Store and was never so disappointed!
Just makes me wonder though... why does Steve hate Canada so much? We have shoe-boxes in pedestrian malls for Apple Stores. I went to the grand opening of Canada's first Apple Store and was never so disappointed!
I'm guessing that your aren't a fan of exposed structuralism or modernism. What is you opinion of Falling Water or of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye. How about the East Wing of the National Art gallery? What do you think o the New Freedom Tower in New York or the John Hancock Center? just wondering because they are all built on similar design principles.
Patience, grasshopper. If all the stores were like this they would go bankrupt.
Apple (is building a) store under the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris too.
Apple (has already built a) store under the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris too.
^^^^Nice!
So now there's a cube, a cylinder and a pyramid.
Next a glass doughnut.
How about a giant glass Möbius strip Apple store?
I'm a huge fan of the Pompidou so exposed structuralism I am definitely a fan of.
In terms of Modernism, huge fan of the Bauhaus and cubist movements.
Falling Water: Revolutionary
Corbusier's Villa Savoy: Completely opposite design than we are talking about with the Apple Store, the car park's entrance is in the middle but underneath. I'm not a big fan of the Villa Savoy, but his furniture is iconic.
I've actually been to the National Art Gallery and I thoroughly enjoyed the architecture. The fact that it is shaped by the surroundings and there are no odd angles make the building flow very well.
The New Freedom Tower and Hancock Center are just plain old American skyscrapers. I'm not a fan. I'd much prefer skyscrapers like the planned Dubai Towers or the postponed Chicago Spire. Also a fan of the Las Vegas City Center.
...your comments explain why you are the CEO of one of the biggest tech companies in the world...
experts everywhere in this forum...
Honestly, I'm just saying that I do not like the design, and you are telling me not to graduate because you disagree with me. That's really sad.
I have a feeling that the Cube, Pyramid & Cyllinder are pieces of a greater puzzle... something catastrophic.
Hmm.. I have to admit I find this a bit disturbing. It does feel like a monument, a place of worship, or a future shrine, but to what? Apple? Steve Jobs? Consumerism? To me, my instinct is consumerism.
But the irony is this, there is nothing particually extravagant about it. It's just a lot of glass. Nothing that's traditionally particually rare or over the top about it.
As others have said, it's apple's design philosophy in building form. What I think is most notable about it is it's lack of .. notability. What I mean is by being underground, there is nothing particually to stand out - apple hates buttons, they obviously hate buildings too. But by being underground it does standout from.
Anyway.. I like it as a general idea. But the giant glass structure with the apple logo creeps me out a bit.
But the irony is this, there is nothing particually extravagant about it. It's just a lot of glass. Nothing that's traditionally particually rare or over the top about it.
As others have said, it's apple's design philosophy in building form. What I think is most notable about it is it's lack of .. notability. What I mean is by being underground, there is nothing particually to stand out - apple hates buttons, they obviously hate buildings too. But by being underground it does standout from.
Anyway.. I like it as a general idea. But the giant glass structure with the apple logo creeps me out a bit.
looks really cool until I saw the aerial photo and couldn't help but think it looks like a missile silo. I think Steve is planning on secretly building the iBomb for when he takes over the world.