This recently opened Apple store is in the heart of Shanghai’s Jing’an District. Generating a public space for encounters, a new circular plaza connects different walkways through several curving levels featuring vegetation and tiered seating from wh
Steered personally by Steve Jobs in tight collaboration with Norman Foster, Appes new headquarters, with its exact circular shape, evokes the perfection pursued by the Californian company.
Apple’s first flagship store in Singapore features two spectacular curved staircases, hand-carved by Italian artisans in Castagna stone. The staircase is assembled from solid stone blocks measuring up to 1.6 x 1.2 x 0.2 meters and up to 1,000 kilogra
Located on a plot close to the current Apple headquarters in Cupertino, the new campus demolishes the existing scattered constructions and offers a set of buildings which reduces the ecological footprint, situated strategically according to use, secu
Apple Aventura embodies Miami’s spirit of openness and generosity, bringing people together under an undulating vaulted roof that is reminiscent of the city’s nautical and architectural roots. The materiality and flowing spaces are inspired by the re
The selfish giant of Oscar Wilde’s popular short story closed his garden to the children, and with them the spring went away. The technological titans of our days control ever more exclusive domains, but their reckless behavior can bring winter to th
The director of the Design Museum in London examines aspects of the new urbanism of Silicon Valley, associated with the construction of headquarters for the giant technology companies.
Market research, so much a part of popular culture, made us see Steve Jobs as a genius obsessed with creating objects so perfect that they could become objects of desire, things we needed without knowing it: technological fetishes with curved edges.
Using architecture as an emblem, sometimes as a technological lure, is nothing new. Suffice it to remember the recurring association of avant-garde buildings with automobiles, a link forged in times of Le Corbusier and continuing to this day. But aft
Incluso el ‘genio’ que le atiende en la tienda más cercana de Apple podría admitir que un euro invertido en un PC aporta una capacidad significativamente mayor de poder de computación que el gastado en un Mac. Todos sabemos, además, que navegar por i
Un anillo blanco, minimalista y medioambiental, acogerá en 2015 a gran parte de la plantilla de Apple en Cupertino (Baja California). Fue el propio Steve Jobs quien, el pasado noviembre, anunció la noticia de que Foster + Partners, asociada a las ing
