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Glass Tower on Apple's New Shanghai Store Revealed
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But it's the same, indestructable glass that's on the iPhone4. It will be the only thing standing in 2012.
Also included
A new Apple-Store service is also being added worldwide:
(after the Fiesta ad)
http://www.theonion.com/video/new-apple-friend-bar-gives-customers-someone-to-ta,17693/
A new Apple-Store service is also being added worldwide:
(after the Fiesta ad)
http://www.theonion.com/video/new-apple-friend-bar-gives-customers-someone-to-ta,17693/
How they get these underground locations is amazing in itself. That's quite a beauty of simplicity.
I'm not sure what Lenovo's CEO was saying. Apple is trying to crack the Chinese market just at their own pace. Apple already has a hard time keeping up with demand for their products so going hog-wild over China may not be in their best interests. Steady as she goes.
I'm not sure what Lenovo's CEO was saying. Apple is trying to crack the Chinese market just at their own pace. Apple already has a hard time keeping up with demand for their products so going hog-wild over China may not be in their best interests. Steady as she goes.
I'm two blocks down from the store. I think it'll be so packed Saturday it'll be hard to not be trampled.
Apparently he thinks we should all live in little stackable pods that way we don't waste any space. It can be called the iPod...
Perhaps the keys to the Seventh Circle of Hell.
Like.....
Just sayin'
It sucks to have to go through it
To this day Apple refuses to frame themselves in that light .
Does that explain the question you refuse to ask?
I smell sarcasm
I didnt intend to come off as sarcastic, that is a pretty iconic building for a consumer electronics company
Better wording?
For the record:
"In my opinion, as an architecture student, this is terrible."
Generally, I expect someone with even a modest level of knowledge and interest in a subject to provide a bit more of a supporting argument. That you have not done so doesn't surprise me, but it does diminish the value of your opinion.
You, sir, are an idiot.
I suggest some of you go check out Shanghai. Lots of massive, ostentatious buildings there that make anything outside of NYC look puny...
Pause for thought
This photo has inspired an off-topic rant. it's political, so feel free ignore it, tech-fans!
The glass tower in Shanghai looks fantastic, Apple really know how to do retail. But when I see the drapes in this photo, I can't help but feel a mixture of emotions.
In China, the colour red means good luck, and it's used extensively for good-luck wishes and greetings, banners, cards, messages etc. Apple could not and should not have used any other colour for their drapes heralding their new Shanghai store.
Yet it's not so very long ago that here in the West, the imagery of 'red' and 'China' was pushed down our throats as the very emblem of a sinister regime. Governments, bank-rolled by industry including the IT sector, worked hard to keep us afraid of the distant ideology of other nations, and handed over immeasurable resources to the military and weapons manufacturers to 'help defend our way of life' (amongst other propagandas and slogans)
My point is that *all* governments will stop at nothing to sway public opinion about all sorts of matters. They use public opinion as a pretext to do basically whatever they want, but it's usually to appease lobbyists and others by paying them heed or funding whatever interests *those* bodies represent.
One minute red is bad, the next minute it's unveiling a glittering new store in an exciting new city.
And the resources consumed in that opinion-swaying includes people's lives, tax money from countless hours of work done by you and me, people's fears - our whole outlook towards other nations. All spent on whims that can change like the wind.
Looking at that photo, I have to say I'd love to be in Shanghai, admiring the Apple store from without and within. However it also reminds me that no matter what country we live in, there's always someone shouting loudly in our ear, directing and controlling, thoughts and instructions that come from the changing plans of unseen others.
This photo has inspired an off-topic rant. it's political, so feel free ignore it, tech-fans!
The glass tower in Shanghai looks fantastic, Apple really know how to do retail. But when I see the drapes in this photo, I can't help but feel a mixture of emotions.
In China, the colour red means good luck, and it's used extensively for good-luck wishes and greetings, banners, cards, messages etc. Apple could not and should not have used any other colour for their drapes heralding their new Shanghai store.
Yet it's not so very long ago that here in the West, the imagery of 'red' and 'China' was pushed down our throats as the very emblem of a sinister regime. Governments, bank-rolled by industry including the IT sector, worked hard to keep us afraid of the distant ideology of other nations, and handed over immeasurable resources to the military and weapons manufacturers to 'help defend our way of life' (amongst other propagandas and slogans)
My point is that *all* governments will stop at nothing to sway public opinion about all sorts of matters. They use public opinion as a pretext to do basically whatever they want, but it's usually to appease lobbyists and others by paying them heed or funding whatever interests *those* bodies represent.
One minute red is bad, the next minute it's unveiling a glittering new store in an exciting new city.
And the resources consumed in that opinion-swaying includes people's lives, tax money from countless hours of work done by you and me, people's fears - our whole outlook towards other nations. All spent on whims that can change like the wind.
Looking at that photo, I have to say I'd love to be in Shanghai, admiring the Apple store from without and within. However it also reminds me that no matter what country we live in, there's always someone shouting loudly in our ear, directing and controlling, thoughts and instructions that come from the changing plans of unseen others.
Stating one word posts such as "Beautiful" is no different. Just because I'm opposing it does not mean I have to go in depth into a reason why I think it looks bad. But if it is really killing you to know, I'm pretty sure I said already that the fact that its a glass cylinder surrounded by concrete is unoriginal, dull, and boring. It also does not fit with the surroundings and has competing outer angles.
Sometimes an Apple Store is just an Apple Store.
I like the way the Apple stores in NYC all have dog bowls filled with water. It is good water too (Sometimes the Apple Store workers will give you a nice dog treat if you are a good boy.)
I like the way the Apple stores in NYC all have dog bowls filled with water. It is good water too (Sometimes the Apple Store workers will give you a nice dog treat if you are a good boy.)
I thought he just 'had a hand' in designing the New York cube; I wonder if the cubes are his idea, a napkin sketch, or it just means he signed the check.
I couldn't agree more!
It's such a blatant ripoff of all those other pure glass cylinder store entrances out there. Yawn. I mean, I can't take my dog for a walk without him trying to pee on a pure glass cylindrical store entrance. Freakin' dime a dozen.
And please -- why the **** is it round? Just LOOK at that aerial view -- not another round building within ten FEET of that monstrosity! I'm so embarrassed for Apple.
Or, you know, maybe I'm actually just a stubbornly indignant and artistically challenged cynic who should rethink my career.
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It's such a blatant ripoff of all those other pure glass cylinder store entrances out there. Yawn. I mean, I can't take my dog for a walk without him trying to pee on a pure glass cylindrical store entrance. Freakin' dime a dozen.
And please -- why the **** is it round? Just LOOK at that aerial view -- not another round building within ten FEET of that monstrosity! I'm so embarrassed for Apple.
Or, you know, maybe I'm actually just a stubbornly indignant and artistically challenged cynic who should rethink my career.
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It would be nice if Apple focused less on glass towers in China and more on iPhone reception issues.