Jobs wants 32-foot glass cube following Apple store lease
The long-awaited deal for Apple?s sprawling subterranean store in the GM building was recently finalized?but only after landlord Harry Macklowe promised Steve Jobs he could take his big $9 million glass cube with him at the end of the lease, reports New York Magazine.
According to the report, Jobs personally designed the 32-foot-by-32-foot hollow glass structure that will mark the store?s entrance on the Fifth Avenue plaza. Over the past month, workers could be seen assembling the massive gemstone-esque structure, one narrow glass pane at a time.
?Steve Jobs felt that he created the cube so he owned it,? said Apple broker Robert Futterman, noting that Macklowe wanted it to stay put. ?At the eleventh hour, that was the biggest issue.?
The report says that Macklowe aggressively wooed Jobs, flying out to California twice and offering the 24,000-square-foot retail space at well below market rent of $1,000 per square foot.
"At the end of the twenty-year lease, Jobs must replace the cube with a comparable structure before hauling it off."
The GM Building flagship Apple store is now slated to open next spring.
Rendering of 5th Ave. Apple retail store entrance.
According to the report, Jobs personally designed the 32-foot-by-32-foot hollow glass structure that will mark the store?s entrance on the Fifth Avenue plaza. Over the past month, workers could be seen assembling the massive gemstone-esque structure, one narrow glass pane at a time.
?Steve Jobs felt that he created the cube so he owned it,? said Apple broker Robert Futterman, noting that Macklowe wanted it to stay put. ?At the eleventh hour, that was the biggest issue.?
The report says that Macklowe aggressively wooed Jobs, flying out to California twice and offering the 24,000-square-foot retail space at well below market rent of $1,000 per square foot.
"At the end of the twenty-year lease, Jobs must replace the cube with a comparable structure before hauling it off."
The GM Building flagship Apple store is now slated to open next spring.
Rendering of 5th Ave. Apple retail store entrance.
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Originally posted by AppleInsider
24,000-square-foot retail space at well below market rent of $1,000 per square foot.
Is that $24 million per month or per year? Regardless, it seems like the $9 million glass cube is pretty insignificant compared to the rental cost - probably won't even be worth removing at the end of 20 years.
Originally posted by zenatek
How are they going to stop people from throwing a rock at it?
I assume its tempered glass.
What does one do with 32x32x32 feet of glass?
Originally posted by salmonstk
What does one do with 32x32x32 feet of glass?
Find a 1 inch by 1 inch place to stick an "Intel Inside" sticker on it...
The glass doesn't have to be tempered. As long as it's thick and the edges are protected, it'll be fine, although laminated glass would be safer. What keeps people from throwing rocks at all the floor-to-ceiling picture windows all over Manhattan but especially common in Midtown? None of those are tempered, either. Mostly, it's the dearth of rocks in Manhattan. Plus the fact that it's tough to damage thick panes of glass. And security cameras.
I suppose Jobs needed something to replace the Jackling house on his Woodside lot.
There are a lot of glass structures in New York that no one throws rocks at.
Mostly, it's the dearth of rocks in Manhattan.
Midtown Manhattan actually sits on giant slabs of granite. Which is the reason they are able to build so many skyscrapers in that area.
You can often see exposed parts of the granite in Central Park, Harlem, and Washington Heights.
But of course no one is going to pick one up and throw it at a glass building.
Large panes of glass are expensive to manufacture, transport, and install.
Originally posted by salmonstk
What does one do with 32x32x32 feet of glass?
Surely it's only 5 x 32x32 feet of glass ?
That makes it around $1700 per square foot, almost twice as much as the cost of the retail space per year... I'd wanna keep it at that price!
Originally posted by SpamSandwich
It's clearly an engineering marvel.
Was that pun intended?
I think the real answer re rocks, careening Mountain Dew Trucks, etc., is... insurance.
Does he intend to use this cube as his final resting place (similar to Lenin's mausoleum) in the middle of the Infinte Loop campus, so the unwashed masses can file past and gape in awe and wonder at his Steveness?
Originally posted by Robrippin
< insert random joke about female employees having to work under a glass ceiling >
I can hear the chatter in the office/coatroom now...
Employee 1 "Did you tell the manager about the missing iPod accessories?"
Employee 2 "Yea, and she hit the glass ceiling!"