Apple has long been a true religion. And her trading houses correspond: not just shops, but temples of technological progress. Most of the masterpieces from the list below are designed by architect Norman Foster, a Pritzker Prize laureate. All these buildings are unique, but each one not only surprises and sells, but reflects the essence of the city and harmoniously fits into the atmosphere around. We suggest you look at the most beautiful Apple stores in the world.
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Piazza Liberty, Milan
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An ultramodern store, starting with a wide but concise staircase that adorned the fashionable capital. The first flagship brand in the country. Inside and outside the building is finished with noble granite from Lombardy - Grigio Beola. But the main thing is an eight-meter waterfall on the roof, enclosed in a glass cage.
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Kotay, Macau
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This branch opened recently, but Macau conquered residents and guests from the first minutes. The unusual color of the building imitates the light breaking through a paper lantern. The effect is achieved through a composite facade of glass and stone.
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Kurfürstendamm, Berlin
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The first metropolitan Apple store in Germany opened on Kurfürstendamm boulevard, within the walls of a luxurious historic building. The noble gray cladding and the interior underwent restoration, but retained classical rigor. The house is made in the Roman style, with a colonnade and arched windows.
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Grand Central Terminal, New York
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It's nice when your favorite company meets right at the station: it’s immediately clear where to go first. The main terminal of the central New York station is charming in itself, but the 85-meter high vaulted ceiling is something.
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Sanlitun, Beijing
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The flagship Apple in Beijing is more than an unusual store on one of the city’s most famous streets. The gray facade with the logo combines practically “yin and yang” - two buildings: a modern one with transparent walls and a two-tone painted brick.
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Zorlu Center, Istanbul
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This site is located in the Turkish shopping center, completely underground. Outside, only transparent walls and a white roof with a bitten apple are visible. On the surface, the boutique is framed by a reservoir.
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Covent Garden, London
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An apple market under a modern vaulted ceiling that grows into the walls of English houses with old pendant lights. The magical atmosphere of the Apple Fair is in the center of the capital’s famous entertainment district.
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Carousel du Louvre, Paris
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A building with an incredible history: from the royal palace to the art museum, and then to the shopping center. Now with the contrasting Apple store inside. Transparent, minimalistic, with a bewitching - almost invisible spiral staircase.
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12 ryu Halevi, Paris
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This building in itself is a masterpiece. This is probably why Apple placed such inconspicuous logos on its exquisitely creamy facade. Forged balustrades, a glass hall and a street cobbled with creamy cobblestone at the entrance are the most sophisticated electronics store.
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Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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A stunning move: moving away from the usual minimalist fans, the Apple Corporation opens its first store in Brooklyn, which looks like a whole fashionable and creative urban area.
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Pudong District, Shanghai
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Something striking: a huge glass cylinder standing in the water in the middle of the square. Almost empty - only the company logo hovers under its ceiling. A laconic white staircase leads down to the large shopping areas of the delighted buyer.
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Chongqing, China
The same cylindrical entrance was installed in the Jiefangbei area, which opened in Chongqing in January 2015. This store is slightly smaller than the 12-meter cylinder in Shanghai Pudong, but Apple has tried to make the discovery exciting.
Before the opening of the glass cylinder, the structure was wrapped in a mural, which was a combined work of art by two artists.
13
Santa Monica California
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The building, which was there before Apple built its beautiful store on Third Street, housed the three-story Borders bookstore.
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Houston Texas
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This store was designed according to the designs of the previous one, with the exception that there is one section added in depth.
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Upper West Side, New York
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Unlike the original design of most Apple stores, most of the glass building faces the street. And the protruding glass corner in the plan has an acute angle that repeats the angle of the intersection.
A glass building 12 meters high is illuminated by daylight from above, and wall panels fill the area with diffused sunlight. The store also has a glass spiral staircase leading to the underground floor, and the Apple logo hangs inside the award-winning building.
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Wangfujing, Beijing
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This is another Beijing store on our list. Unlike the first, it has rounded shapes. A glass curved display case design was also used at the Altmarkt-Galerie store and a store in Düsseldorf in Germany. This is Apple's largest store in Asia.
In addition to its advantageous location and huge size, the store is also famous for its three-story glass staircase, which is rare in the design of the Apple Store. It is available only in two other Apple Store stores: in this store and in the store that most-beauty wrote about above.
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Fifth Avenue, New York
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The Apple Store on the corner of 57th Street and Fifth Avenue is one of the most beautiful shopping centers in the city center. The entrance to the glass cube is in front of the GM building, and customers go down to the underground store through (you guessed it) the glass staircase.
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Brisbane australia
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The building served as the regional headquarters for General Douglas MacArthur himself during World War II, but a lot of restoration work was done here before the capture of Apple. And now this beautiful Apple store will inflate Australians.
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Hamburg, Germany
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It was the seventh Apple Store in Germany, and in this place used to be one of the largest jewelry stores in the city.
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Barcelona, Spain
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In this beautiful building of the post-Spanish Civil War, there was a hotel, and then the head office of the bank, after which 2,500 m² were converted into a beautiful Apple Store.
These were the most beautiful Apple stores in the world. The editors of most-beauty.ru asks you to write in the comments which of the presented stores you liked the most.