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APPLE’S FIFTH AVENUE FLAGSHIP GETS A CUTTING-EDGE REDO FROM FOSTER + PARTNERS.

—Ingrid Abramovitch

IN 2006, WHEN STEVE JOBS INAUGURATED APPLE’S original flagship on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, he planted a glass cube to mark the entrance to the underground space. After a two-year renovation, the cube remains—rebuilt to Jobs’s exact specifications. But everything else about the store is entirely new. Apple tapped Foster + Partners—the architects behind the company’s new Apple Park headquarters in Cupertino, California—to expand and redesign the retail space. Created in the 1960s as the sunken plaza of the General Motors Building, the outdoor area has been filled in and now boasts rows of honey locust trees, water features, and 18 mirrored-glass “sky lenses” that rise like inverted moon craters for outdoor seating. Inside the cube, a stainless steel spiral staircase leads to a subterranean store whose lighting system was designed…

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ELLE DECOR (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2019

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