Apple store pr0n: a peek at the 5-story Manhattan glass cube
At least one Flickr user, bhaggs, has posted some images that offer a peek at Apple's new commercial monument to itself - the much-anticipated 5-story, all glass, Fifth Avenue Apple Store in Manhattan. As Dave Caolo noted before, construction is still slated to finish in time for the holiday season, so I only have one question: when is Denver going to get their own glass cube, Apple? C'mon, we have like... 1/100th of NY's population!
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Brendan said 7:31PM on 4-08-2006
Correct me if i'm wrong, but how do you fit 5 stories in 30ft !!
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andy said 7:32PM on 4-08-2006
steve jobs looovveesss the cube
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David said 8:33PM on 4-08-2006
#1, some of it is underground
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Zoli said 9:15PM on 4-08-2006
I have more pics of the store. If you want them email me at zolihonig@gmail.com
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Dinesh said 11:12PM on 4-08-2006
Gorgeous ! Will Overland Park ever get an Apple store? The only store we have is the one in Kansas city - Plaza and it is too tiny.
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Antonio said 12:30AM on 4-09-2006
Yeah, I stood next to this thing and it's barely 2&1/2 stories high. If the rest of it is underground, it wouldn't be a cube any more.
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Buthidae said 12:35AM on 4-09-2006
Nice one, Dave. Now Steve's going to post you a 0.05 storey high glass cube! :-p
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Allan said 9:54AM on 4-09-2006
Caolo wrote last October "If all goes well, the store should be open in time for this year's holiday shopping season". That would have been last year's holiday shopping season...
I understood that it was due to open this spring. Anybody heard anything more definite?
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Allan said 9:56AM on 4-09-2006
Caolo wrote last October "If all goes well, the store should be open in time for this year's holiday shopping season". That would have been last year's holiday shopping season...
I understood that it was due to open this spring. Anybody heard anything more definite?
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Doug Flint said 11:01AM on 4-09-2006
I want a glass cube in Denver! We could put it next to the new Tattered Cover and I could walk there!
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jake said 1:38PM on 4-09-2006
now i have to go to nyc to see the empire state building, the statue of liberty and the apple store!
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Steve S said 3:01PM on 4-09-2006
They can easily fit 5 stories in 30 feet... just use short ceilings. It'll cut overhead costs, and maybe even provide a portal directly into Jobs' head!
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padraic said 3:39PM on 4-09-2006
why whe hell does steve want after the 20 year lease wat can u do with a huge cube...... by the way im anxiously awating mac book
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bufflo said 3:58PM on 4-09-2006
"We are the Borg. Resistance is futile."
It really is, I've never left an Apple Store empty handed.
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Azhar said 4:49PM on 4-09-2006
I always thought the cube would be empty and the whole store is underground via a blended in glass staircase www.ifoapplestore.com they should give an insight. Also why arnt there any more pics of it... I want one in my garden
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Army brat said 5:36PM on 4-09-2006
It looks like one giant ipod box to me.
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Joe B said 7:43PM on 4-09-2006
Just to clarify, the glass cube was a part of the renovation plans for the General Motors building before Apple signed on as a tenent. While the Apple store will be an anchor of the new retail space, there won't be a logo on the cube. It's just part of the redesigned plaza, and you can thank the firm Moed de Armas & Shannon for it.
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GadgetTV said 12:10AM on 4-10-2006
It does look like a large iPod box. They would be a awesome holiday marketing scheme.
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Andrew D. Montgomery said 2:09AM on 4-10-2006
Never left an Apple Store empty-handed, eh? Then you've never been to the Soho store, here in NYC. =) Hehe...
Acording to New York Magazine , the Cube belongs to Apple, although that doesn't rule out the fact that it may have been originally conceived by Moed de Armas & Shannon. "Jobs personally designed the 32-foot-by-32-foot box that will mark the store’s entrance on the Fifth Avenue plaza." In fact, it was "only after landlord Harry Macklowe promised Steve Jobs he could take his big $9 million glass cube with him at the end of the lease," that Apple finally signed the lease.
But if Steve "I-won't-put-a-power-button-anywhere-you'll-ever-find-it-because-it-screws-with-my-aesthetics" Jobs personally designed this cube, paid USD$9 million for it, and refused to sign the lease if he couldn't keep it, then it is *definitely* going to have an Apple logo on it. =)
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Glen Grayson said 7:33AM on 4-10-2006
Thanks for the clarification. I have the sense that people are blaming Apple for the glass cube. Any idea how many other retail tenants will be sharing the subterranean space with Apple, or did Apple wind up leasing it all?
I also find it humorous that people are complaining that an empty glass cube is going to blocl a view to Central Park- the plaza is large, the park is huge, and the cube is, er, glass.
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