Comments on: Scottsdale Apple store showcases updated retail design

By: Daniel Swanson

Daniel Swanson — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:26:11 +0000

Reading the first two posts brings to mind the classic quote from the Bible: “Casting pearls before swine. . .”

This is a stunningly beautiful new design for Apple retail stores. Yet another bold move by Apple in its continuing mission to “Think different.” I LOVE the glass walls and the high ceiling. What a bold new iteration which yet is substantially consistent with previous store designs!

Design is far more than just “looks”, and is nothing without aesthetics, and I’m sure the architects/engineers have taken climactic factors into consideration in this new Arizona store, just like they did for the Fifth Avenue store.

Like the Little Red Hen, Apple has been resolutely “baking bread” all these years with or without outside help. The “bread” has always been of good quality, and now it can afford a better “bread shop.”

Well done!

By: marjorie vilar

marjorie vilar — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:50:24 +0000

now if only the AC worked….they have fans on the floor to help cool the customers …east/west walls of glass with a 75ft sky light really beautiful..but in AZ with temps well over 100 … AC needs to work

By: KiltBear

KiltBear — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:53:17 +0000

“Even with all the design features…”

I think designers would take umbrage that the wording of the article seems to imply functional details like a bigger Genius Bar are not “design features”. This is especially odd on a blog about Apple products. Maybe a better way to put it would be “aesthetic features”.