“If the new Hangzhou store is any indication, Foster + Partners are looking for ways to make its already pared down Apple stores even more minimalist,” Margaret Rhodes reports for Wired. “But in doing so, they’re pushing the limits of what can be done with modern structural engineering. Take a closer look: The Hangzhou store’s ceilings are almost 50 feet high, with no columns to be found. The façade of glass panels reaches from floor to ceiling without interruption, meaning Foster + Partners had to push well beyond their previous feats in glass manufacturing to get 11 seamless panes. (By contrast, the glass cube that leads to Apple’s heavily trafficked subterranean Fifth Avenue store in New York is 32 feet tall, and the curved glass entrance to the store’s Shanghai store is 40 feet in height. The Cupertino campus itself will use enormous glass panels that are curved.)”
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The future. Has arrived.
Unless I am mistaken, the future arrives every nanosecond in a continuous process.
You are both mistaken. The future never arrives. It’s always the present, but living in the present is actually really hard to do, because the time it takes to make that thought, that present moment already passed.
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I’ve read a few different variations on this stoic conundrum about what is the future. All they serve to do is point out how lost we humans can become in our symbols while reality speeds by, leaving us in the dust. ‘Deceptive Truth’ is my name for this phenomenon.
I like that term, its with us all the time, we just don’t see it… just look at Microsofties and Fandroids.
The more perspective we gain, the more angles from which we view situations, the better we can understand it. We also all have blindspots. I depend upon a lot of other people to help fill in mine. (Hi Glenda dahling and associated pals!) We are a social species. We all contribute to the whole. We are stronger together than apart, and so forth. 😀
Free-floating? I’m not sure I’d want to stand on that. I mean know its Apple, but still.
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Someday, something will collapse or fail.
Apple knows how to design Windows!
When I worked at an Apple store I was always complaining that the workplace needed more natural light. Sadly, that store still has no natural light coming into it, but it is nice to see Apple doing this for some of their stores. At least they are trying.
Stunning…
…and the engineering ain’t too shabby either.
That is just FSCKING cool!
You might like to compare this with Foster’s 1976 Centre for the Visual Arts in England, one of his first works –
http://englisheyeimages.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/high-tech-in-norwich-sainsbury-centre.html
Or this one in Ipswich his first major design. http://www.c20society.org.uk/100-buildings/1975-willis-faber-dumas-building-ipswich/
That cantilevered 2nd floor is insane!