{"id":944,"date":"2018-08-05T15:28:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T15:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pullcast.eu\/blog\/?p=944"},"modified":"2019-12-13T15:45:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T15:45:04","slug":"this-apple-store-in-macau-would-make-steve-jobs-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pullcast.eu\/blog\/this-apple-store-in-macau-would-make-steve-jobs-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"This Apple Store in Macau Would Make Steve Jobs Proud!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This Apple Store in Macau Would Make Steve Jobs Proud!<\/strong> <\/em>\u2013 It\u2019s in Macau that we find one of the most elegant and popular Apple Stores in the world!<\/p>\n

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The Cotai Central offers a calm complement to the buzz and excitement of Macau, responding to the desire for an inviting, contemplative space, where technology, entertainment, and arts come together to make a positive contribution to the city. Its timeless design by Foster + Partners reinvigorates a corner of Cotai with a distinctive addition \u2013 a luminescent cube, whose pure geometry and warm \u2018beacon-like\u2019 glow draws passers-by closer, set within a quiet bamboo grove and an external plaza.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0design<\/strong>\u00a0is the result of a close collaboration between the design team at\u00a0Apple<\/strong>\u00a0led by chief design officer, Sir\u00a0Jonathan Ive and Angela Ahrendts<\/strong>, senior vice president of Retail and Online Stores and\u00a0Foster + Partners<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Apple<\/strong>\u00a0Cotai Central seeks to create more meaningful spaces for the community and providing an alternative urban model for Cotai. Strategically located at the heart of this gaming and entertainment capital, the design makes a humble civic gesture with a large new event plaza in the foreground of the cube. Carved out of a densely planted\u00a0bamboo<\/strong>\u00a0forest, the plaza forms an oasis of tranquility, an urban room that draws people into the site, creating pedestrian connections between the surrounding buildings for the first time.<\/p>\n

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Apple store<\/strong>\u00a0is conceptualized as a \u2018paper lantern\u2019 that glows mysteriously. Visitors entering the store are treated to a magical experience, surrounded by glowing stone panels that shimmer throughout the day as the sun brings them to life, while at night the cube radiates a warm glow, contrasting against the bright lights of Macau. The first-of-its-kind glass-stone composite fa\u00e7ade comprises five layers of glass integrated with incredibly thin layers of stone, which gives the building its distinctive materiality \u2013 appearing as translucent stone walls, akin to stained-glass.<\/p>\n

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The interior is designed as the exact spatial inverse of the plaza, with a quiet\u00a0bamboo<\/strong>\u00a0grove carved from the forest outside and placed under the soaring central atrium. It is capped by a large central skylight with punched pyramidical apertures that brings natural light deep into the interior spaces. The ground level is wrapped in a glazed fa\u00e7ade that looks onto a layered bamboo screen, providing a heightened sense of enclosure, while blurring the boundaries between the inside and outside. The only thing that will elevate even further this store would be a Pull From The PullCast Cosmopolitan<\/a>. Don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\n

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