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Foster + Partners converts historic Washington DC library into Apple Store

May 21, 2019 Jenna McKnight 0
Apple Carnegie Library by Foster+Partners in Washington, DC

Foster + Partners has collaborated with the Apple design team to transform a neoclassical building in the US capital into a sleek retail space with a skylit atrium, where events are held to “entertain and inspire the local people”. The store, called Apple Carnegie Library, is located in Mount Vernon Square, about seven blocks north

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Apple pledges support to Notre-Dame as funds pass €600 million mark

April 16, 2019 India Block 0
Apple has pledged to donate to help rebuild Notre Dame cathedral after the fire

Apple has joined the list of donors who have pledged to support restoration of the fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, with total donations now exceeding €600 million. Tim Cook, CEO of tech giant Apple, said he was “heartbroken” at the news of the fire, which broke out on the evening of 14 April. “Apple will

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Federation Square’s Foster + Partners-designed Apple Store axed

April 8, 2019 India Block 0
A controversial Apple Store designed by Foster + Partners for Melbourne's Federation Square has been cancelled after plans were blocked by Australian heritage authorities.

A controversial Apple Store designed by Foster + Partners for Melbourne’s Federation Square has been cancelled after plans were blocked by Australian heritage authorities. Heritage Victoria ruled against plans put forward by Federation Square management to knock down the Yarra Building, one of the existing structures on the publicly owned plaza, to make way for a AUS$50

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10 Apple Stores by Foster + Partners

March 11, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Apple Cotai Centre Macau by Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners has designed a succession of Apple Stores that implement the tech giant’s retail vision. From Paris to Istanbul, here are 10 of its best designs.  Apple Zorlu Centre, Turkey, 2014 Apple Zorlu Centre in Istanbul was the first Foster + Partners-designed Apple Store to open. Occupying two storeys below ground the store is topped by

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Apple’s head of retail Angela Ahrendts to step down

February 7, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
Apple's head of retail Angela Ahrendts

Angela Ahrendts, the “transformative force” behind Apple Store designs, will leave her position at the tech company this spring. Ahrendts will leave her role as Apple’s senior vice president of retail in April 2019 to undertake “new personal and professional pursuits”, the company announced on 5 February 2019. She will be succeeded by Deirdre O’Brien – an

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Foster + Partners use trees as partitions inside Thailand’s first Apple store

December 13, 2018 Lizzie Crook 0

Indigenous trees and wooden workbenches line the inside of Apple Iconsiam in Bangkok, the first Apple Store to open in Thailand, designed by Foster + Partners. The store forms part of the new Iconsiam shopping complex that opened in November. Fronted by two expansive glass facades, it is designed as an extension of the plant-filled plaza it

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Foster + Partners use trees as partitions inside Thailand’s first Apple store

December 13, 2018 Lizzie Crook 0

Indigenous trees and wooden workbenches line the inside of Apple Iconsiam in Bangkok, the first Apple Store to open in Thailand, designed by Foster + Partners. The store forms part of the new Iconsiam shopping complex that opened in November. Fronted by two expansive glass facades, it is designed as an extension of the plant-filled plaza it

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Foster + Partners releases photos of Apple’s Steve Jobs Theater Pavilion

November 21, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

The “largest carbon-fibre roof in the world” tops the Steve Jobs Theater Pavilion at the Foster + Partners-designed Apple Park campus, which is revealed in these new images. The photographs show the exterior and interiors of the auditorium and events venue, which is dedicated to Apple’s late founder, over one year after the building officially

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