“At the Santa Monica Planning Commission tonight, Apple is believed to be proposing a dramatic new Apple Retail Store on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California,” Arnold Kim reports for MacRumors.
“As first noted by Curbed, the proposal is from an unnamed retailer who is seeking to construct a new 8,084 square foot commercial building in the place of an existing three story Borders Bookstore,” Kim reports. “The proposal is for a one-story, 34-foot high commercial building with an ‘expansive floor-to-ceiling height accentuated by a transparent glass ceiling.'”
Kim reports, “The front will be entirely glass that will project from stone paneled side walls. A 5,210 sq foot basement will also be included.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
That would be awesome. Their Century City store is too small and always too crowded.
Should I buy stock in Windex?
Another reminder that Mac users shouldn’t throw stones.
P.S. liberals suck.
Potty Mouth. Not called for here.
I’m guessing it was a request, not an epithet.
It was a joke. “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” is a time-honored metaphor for the folly of casting aspersions on others, while those others can clearly view your own hypocrisy.
So following that reference with an example of the type of insult that has become all too common on this forum (however much it benefits MDN’s ad count) was itself intentionally hypocritical, therefore funny.
Don’t insult people. P.S. you suck. (get it?)
Get it, but kinda weak. Keep trying.
In Soviet Russia, rocks throw you!
No, can’t lower over-priced products need the money to try to litigate vs innovate. Plus it will be nice for customers to watch the plentiful seagulls in the area crap all over the roof.
A couple of decades ago, Apple’s failure to adequately protect their intellectual property was a near-fatal mistake, one they are determined not to make again.
The air conditioning costs for that store will be enormous!
Yeah, that’ll be a fun heat load calculation… “lessee, ceiling height – Big. Window square footage… Oooh, yeah…” At least it’ll have walls on the south side.
Apparently, a good portion of that basement is going to be set aside for mechanical. It ain’t going on the roof! And with what is essentially an atrium, they’ll want to run cooling from the floor anyway.
Ahhh… My home town. Harry Schearer calls SM “The Home of the Homeless.” Also where I purchased my MacBook Pro.
As a frequent visitor to Santa Monica, I can’t help picturing how the seagulls will modify that roof.
It’s good that there are plenty of tables to dive under when the next large earthquake hits.
Does it ever rain in California? Where does the rain go on those side walls?
I know Steve Jobs has said he dislikes cancer, but has he forgotten about skin cancer. i’d hate to be an employee at that store.
Uh, I hate to break this to you, but glass absorbs UV and infra-red light wavelengths. You can’t get a sunburn, much less skin cancer, through a window.
Comments like the one above make my head hurt.
then you work there all day under the sun.
Your head hurts from your mom dropping you on you headfirst into the floor
looks like they are grabbing the borders book location
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3rd+street+santa+monica&hl=en&ll=34.015202,-118.495482&spn=0.000759,0.002038&safe=off&client=safari&gl=us&t=h&z=20&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=34.015202,-118.495482&panoid=Z1kuYx_8Jm-DeUahtpoqVQ&cbp=12,32.51,,0,2.72
Looks like the Goodyear Blimp hanger.
The retail store looks absolutely gorgeous.
The Roof will need to be cleaned once a day but the might instal an automated cleaning system.
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– The Last Starfighter
Looks beautiful and will be great in that location, but my thoughts are the same as most of you. Keeping it clean. Earthquakes, Air conditioning, and glair from the sun. On the east coast, we use double pane windows with argon gas between them to greatly improve their insulating properties. And I guess they could be tinted to fight glair. I worked in a building about 15 miles from there that had a partial glass roof (the entire lobby was covered in glass) and earthquakes never bothered it. Just the same. I’d be a tad nervous. Hope they put in extra strong wood tables.
With large curved glass panes, they wouldn’t need all that framework under the roof!
The roof will need continual cleaning. There are thousands of seagulls around there. Not a pretty picture.