![]() Inside Apple Ventura, the ground-floor is decked out with rows of elongated wooden tables that serve as Apple’s signature product displays. The large retail space can host Apple Music events and more. The idea was first introduced within Apple’s Cupertino headquarters, also known as Apple Park, in 2017. The result is a light-filled Apple store that actually breaks a big design boundary for the tech giant: Of all its retail spaces, the building is the only one to use precast concrete as a predominant structural material. Per other Apple stores, this one boasts floor-to-ceiling glass windows, revealing all the activity within the stop. The entire structure is held up by steel columns each covered with another thin architectural precast column that’s also painted white. (Nigel Young/Foster + Partners)Īccording to Foster + Partners, the wavy roof design was made from seven precast concrete arches that together form a barrel-vaulted ceiling. White acoustical fabric covers the ceiling to keep noise at a minimum. It is also quintessentially Apple, marrying the outdoor lifestyle with a sense of freedom and creativity that is intrinsic to the way we work.” “Its special trees, the light, and the new roof. “This store is very ‘Miami’ to me,” said Ive. They said the building’s exterior design mimics Miami’s white art deco-style architecture, as well as its nautical design scene. (Nigel Young/Foster + Partners)īehling and the design team worked closely with Jonathan Ive, the former chief design officer of Apple. Twenty-foot-wide concrete arches form the store’s barrel-vaulted ceiling. “We love the honesty and purity of the concrete,” said Stefan Behling, head of studio at Foster + Partners in a press release. But the undulating white concrete roof evokes a certain feeling of fluidity in the bayside shopping center that doesn’t exist elsewhere. It is, in fact, boxy and of course includes trees inside. Located in a new wing of the posh Aventura Mall, the two-story building isn’t a huge departure from the firm’s other work for Apple. Apple Aventura in Aventura, north of Miami is a piece of actual mall architecture that ripples above and beyond its predecessors in terms of design. Foster + Partners has broken out of its traditional glass-box bubble and designed a different kind of Apple Store-one that’s arguably distinct because it wasn’t built in a major city center, or within another development (and doesn’t resemble a Macbook).
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