“That sleek Apple store proposed for the northeast corner of San Francisco’s Union Square is looking a little scuffed,” John King reports for The San Francisco Chronicle.
“Mayor Ed Lee said Wednesday that when he was shown images of the glass-and-steel box the technology giant seeks to build – promptly declaring it to be ‘quite simply incredible’ – he didn’t realize the plans included the eviction of a popular bronze fountain from 1973 by local artist Ruth Asawa,” King reports. “‘We weren’t necessarily focused on that side,’ Lee said, referring to a plaza along Stockton Street where the fountain stands. ‘It wasn’t part of our discussion.'”
King reports, “Lee now says that he plans to visit the existing triangular plaza, where red bricks spill around the fountain designed especially for the space. ‘I need to take a look and visualize’ how the fountain would or would not complement Apple’s proposal for a raised narrow plaza between its store and the Grand Hyatt. The hotel tower was built in tandem with the plaza and the retail building in the early 1970s. ‘We have to see whether it might fit in.'”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
Is there a story to go with the headline?
Longest article evar.
Must be a vapor ware article from M$ marketing department.
MDN can’t even get a story about Apple.
Yet more proof that Apple is DOOMED. DOOMED I say!!!!
A man of few words. Sweet sweet brevity.
I am rethinking about whether to post or not……
Read the full article. Highly recommend!
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/30/flap-over-fountain-forces-san-francisco-mayor-to-reconsider-apple-store-plans
Thank you. The fountain, in my opinion, is ugly!
That looks more like a place where you would take a mud bath than a fountain.
Bronze fountain is clearly code for something.
Was the mayor standing over a bronze fountain while he was rethinking the Apple Store?
Apparently, there is a bronze fountain that will be removed for the proposed Apple Store design.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/slideshow/Proposed-Union-Square-Apple-Store-could-affect-63522.php
When the Union Square location was named, I wondered what would become of the fabeled fountain.
Image search “Ruth Asawa Fountain” to see this unique sculpture; a 3D relief of San Francisco.
Hey, Apple could incorporate the fountain into the new store and have two historic landmarks in one! Toss in a coin and make a wish..
Apparently the statue has to high of a level of decency for San Francisco.
Tim Cook wrote the article, and as we all know he never says anything.
/s
Apple likes glass. Why not water? Unless Apple is aquaphobic and doesn’t want to be “under water”?
I think they are oliophobic.
Gotta wonder, beings this is such a minuscule detail, if mayor lee is on samsungs payroll also.
There is no such thing as an honest politician in California.
-jcr
Judges too…, Lucy “dragging her fat a**” Koh.
I would think that the major of a large city like SF would have more pressing issues than a fountain on private property.
Yet another Apple store in SF? Nearest Apple store to me is 3 hours in one direction, 4 hours in another direction. I bleed for you.