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A Decade of Redefining Experience Retail: 15 Apple Stores Designed by Foster + Partners in City Centers

Nour Fakharany — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 07:30:00 +0000

In 2001, Apple issued its Retail Store Manifesto, proclaiming its ambition to use retail to convince people that “Macintosh offers a much simpler, richer, and more human-centered computing experience” despite retail stores being unpopular among technology companies at the time. This vision has shaped Apple’s unique approach to retail, transforming its stores into environments beyond shopping. Since the inception of its first store, Apple has redefined the retail experience, emphasizing customer engagement and education and creating a community around its products. The stores “have become the embodiment of the Apple lifestyle.” This is done through products displayed on tables for easy access and mid-height furniture clusters in an open plan to foster interaction and visual orientation within the more prominent “Apple community.”

Apple is Building a $1 Billion Campus in Austin, Texas

Niall Patrick Walsh — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Tech giant Apple has announced plans to build a $1 billion campus in Austin Texas, along with smaller facilities in Seattle, San Diego, and Culver City. The Austin plans, images of which have not been released, will see the creation of at least 5,000 jobs in the Southwestern city as house prices in the San Francisco Bay area begin to discourage creatives from Silicon Valley.

Employees Keep Walking into the Glass Walls at Apple's New Campus

Patrick Lynch — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Apple’s unwavering love for glass and seamless edges is one of the reasons designers flock in masses to purchase their products. But that aesthetic has caused a bit of a snafu at the company’s new Foster+Partners-designed headquarters in Cupertino, where employees are running into the highly transparent glass walls at an alarming rate.

Foster + Partner's Apple Park Visitor's Center Opens to the Public

AD Editorial Team — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 08:30:00 +0000

The Visitor's Center at Apple's new Cupertino campus has opened to the public. As the public face of a vast complex designed by Foster + Partners, the independent building is "a uniquely designed architectural extension" of the company's new headquarters. "With similar aesthetics in staircases, stone walls, and terrazzo floors," the center’s "cantilevered carbon fiber roof appears to float," supported only "by stone clad cores and no other extraneous columns for support."

Apple's Steve Jobs Theater Set to Take Center Stage Ahead of New Product Launch

AD Editorial Team — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Ahead of the official launch of the Steve Jobs Theater, a 1000-capacity auditorium at the heart of the new Apple Campus in Cupertino, California, new details about its design and construction have been revealed. According to Bloomberg, the entrance to the venue stands beneath “a silver disc,” whose supporting—and structural—glazed panels lend it the appearance of floating 20 feet above ground.

How Sustainable Is Apple Park's Tree-Covered Landscape, Really?

Fred Bernstein — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 09:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published by The Architect's Newspaper as "How green are Apple’s carbon-sequestering trees really?"

New Drone Footage Captures Finishing Touches Being Applied to Apple's "Steve Jobs Theater"

AD Editorial Team — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 04:00:00 +0000

New footage from drone videographer Duncan Sinfield reveals that finishing touches are being applied to one of the Apple Campus's more important outward-facing buildings, and perhaps its most 'public' – the "Steve Jobs Theater". Designed and constructed using similar elements to the nearby office 'ring'—including large convex glazed panels and precise, rounded cladding panels—the theater's main function will be to host the company's world-renowned keynote addresses, in which they present new products.

Stood in Splendid Isolation, Questions Are Raised About Apple's Cupertino Campus

AD Editorial Team — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 10:15:00 +0000

The "Spaceship" has landed and the dust, it appears, is starting to settle. In an article by Adam Rogers, which follows Wired's exclusive breakdown of the new Apple Campus in Cupertino, California, a convincing case is put forward against its design and wider masterplan. "You can’t understand a building without looking at what’s around it," Rogers argues – and most, including its architects, Foster+Partners, would surely be inclined to agree.

The Spaceship Has Landed: Apple’s New Campus Opens

Sabrina Syed — Fri, 19 May 2017 08:00:00 +0000

“It’s a pretty amazing building. It’s a little like a spaceship landed” - Steve Jobs

Drone Video Captures Apple Campus 2 as Employees Begin Move-In

AD Editorial Team — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 12:00:00 +0000

With employees beginning to move into Apple’s Campus 2 this month, the Foster + Partners-designed main building is down to its finishing touches, as shown in this drone video captured by aerial videographer Matthew Roberts.

2.8 Million-square-foot Apple Campus to Open in April... And It Looks Incredible

AD Editorial Team — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 10:30:00 +0000

Apple today announced that Apple Park (also referred to as Apple Campus 2) will be ready to occupy beginning in April. Envisioned by Steve Jobs as a “center for creativity and collaboration,” the 175-acre campus will serve as a new home for more than 12,000 employees, who will be moved-in over a six month period. Construction on outer buildings and park spaces will continue through the summer.

Apple Campus 2 Held to “Fantastical” Standard of Detail, New Report Reveals

Patrick Lynch — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 11:50:00 +0000

As the finishing touches are applied to the long-awaited Apple Campus 2 (due to be completed in spring of this year), a new report from Reuters has revealed the fantastical strive for perfection demanded by Apple’s in-house project management team. Compiled from interviews with over 20 current and former workers on the project, the piece delves into the exceptional level of detail to which they have held their construction team, which is said to have been the cause of the delay from the project’s original 2016 completion date.

Finishing Touches Applied to Foster + Partners' Apple Campus 2

AD Editorial Team — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 17:15:00 +0000

Following an unofficial update in August 2016, Apple's Campus 2 is entering the final stages of construction. A new drone video, captured by aerial videographer Matthew Roberts earlier this month, shows the 'Research and Development' facility nearing full completion and capped by a vast roof plant, the 'tantau roof' on the security kiosk in place, and an epic effort in landscaping taking place both within the "spaceship's" courtyard and across the company's enormous property. Only one crane now remains on site and the solar installations appear to be around 60% complete, suggesting that the scheduled 2017 move-in date remains on track.