“The irony is not lost on us,” says Matt Weaver, one of the executive producers. Embracing the city through a 40-foot-high glass façade, the project’s angled façade meets a ground floor organized by trusses and a uniform grid of tables.Foster + Partners’ design for Istanbul’s new Apple store is crowned by an illuminated glass lantern set in a reflecting pool of water. Here is a peek at some of these ingenious homes—any of which would make sheltering in place a whole lot more pleasant. Building off the success of its iPhone, Mac and iPod products, Apple began selling its products through specially designed Apple stores back in the early 2000s. The Westlake store was completed as Foster + Partners’ second apple store. The producers of the new Apple TV+ docuseries Home, which begins streaming today, had no idea that their show about the world’s most imaginative houses would be released in the middle of a global pandemic, when much of the world is locked down in their own homes. Made with an envelope of 6,148 glass panels, the interior spaces were organized into three distinct areas built around an atrium, floors and circulation spaces.Apple’s Boylston Store in Boston was designed by BCJ with a distinctive glass façade of laminated fins and polished steel. This is the third in a series, presented by Ted Wells, about four… The building’s high level of transparency reveals a tripartite configuration and slab-and-column construction. Apple has forever changed our understanding of retail architecture and design. BJ, an architect who’s also head of store design for Apple, didn’t have time to babysit a build, but he was enamored by the customizable prefab design weeHouse.
Made with four rectangular glass panes held together without mechanical fixings or visible joins, the lantern rests above two underground retail levels.Located in Barcelona, this Apple store was designed to maintain a minimalist aesthetic while contrasting the sand-colored Spanish limestone. Foster + Partners has designed a succession of Apple Stores that implement the tech giant's retail vision. With the installation of the Bachman Wilson House, a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian home, on the Museum grounds, architecture has become an important theme in the Museum’s progra… Built around an uninhibited space for products, the design includes structural glass fins, delicate stainless steel beams and stone-walled support space.The design of the Apple store in New York’s Upper East Side was created through the adaptive reuse of the Beaux Arts U.S. Mortgage & Trust building. 10 of the most appealing Apple Stores designed by Foster + Partners.