Apple's 'Stanford 2' retail site opens to crowds and lines
Apple has officially opened its "Stanford 2" retail location, an event that drew crowds of both customers and lookers-on.
The Northern California Apple Store has been undergoing a substantial overhaul in order to install a "glass box and floating roof" design, making it one of three stores to feature such a design. Now, AppleInsider reader Jeffrey has supplied images of the grand opening event, which happened on Saturday.
As late as June of this year, construction was still underway at the Stanford 2 site.
The store was first revealed in March of 2012, with its design giving window shoppers a 180-degree view of the interior. Designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, its aesthetic is a continuation of an architectural language that has come to typify many of Apple's most recently-opened retail locations.
Another two retail outlets will soon open with designs similar to the Stanford 2 location. One will be located in downtown Portland, while the other will be in France.
The Northern California Apple Store has been undergoing a substantial overhaul in order to install a "glass box and floating roof" design, making it one of three stores to feature such a design. Now, AppleInsider reader Jeffrey has supplied images of the grand opening event, which happened on Saturday.
As late as June of this year, construction was still underway at the Stanford 2 site.
The store was first revealed in March of 2012, with its design giving window shoppers a 180-degree view of the interior. Designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, its aesthetic is a continuation of an architectural language that has come to typify many of Apple's most recently-opened retail locations.
Another two retail outlets will soon open with designs similar to the Stanford 2 location. One will be located in downtown Portland, while the other will be in France.
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More photos:
http://photos.mercurynews.com/2013/09/07/photos-apple-opens-redesigned-store-at-stanford-shopping-center-in-palo-alto/
Vast quantities of accessories are on walls of back room.
Glasses are nice, but what if people don't want to shop under the sun? Not everyone likes to get a tan.
If my grandmother was of Asian descent, she'd look just about like that. Taller, though. Strange how close…
Oh, and the building is gorgeous.
Just a touch early though. People might be going in buying iPhone 5 models and they'll bring out the 5S in just a couple of days. They can return them up to 30 days though so a few people there might be returning to the store soon.
It looks like an airport terminal.
It probably has an AirPort.
Glasses are nice, but what if people don't want to shop under the sun? Not everyone likes to get a tan.
I know right? This is the opportunity the Microsoft Store has been waiting for! "Attention Apple Store shoppers who don't want a tan..."
I wonder whats in those boxes?
THE FUTURE.
Order online from your basement?
Middle Eastern? Afghani? Indian? Chinese? Japanese? Papua New Guinean?
Are all those pics from the same store? I don't understand why the ones from the outside show an opaque roof and the one on the inside shows a glass roof. Are there two (huge) rooms?
Edit. Ah, I followed the link to the additional pictures. There are two rooms. The outer one has glass walls but a normal roof and the back room has glass ceiling and non-glass walls. I didn't get that when we saw the pictures of the other store like this (in France?).
She almost looks vaguely Indian (skin's different, of course) already, but that's probably just me projecting; she lived there for ~30 years.
But no, here I mean Japanese/Chinese.
There's something in the name Stanford - smart, educated and now... good looking too.
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Apple currently does not look like a company without a future. Why the stock value has deviated so far opposite from the health of the overall company makes no sense whatsoever. With China Mobile and DoCoMo lined up as major carriers and iTunes Radio coming online it appears Apple will certainly double-down in smart-device sales. If that doesn't move Apple's share price upward, then nothing will. Will Apple ever be able to change the viewpoint that Apple is doomed just because Steve Jobs is dead?
T-shirts: the first 1000 visitors get a free Apple t-shirt. I recently got one at the opening of the 3rd Apple Store in Rome, Italy, in the Euroma2 mall.
I don't quite understand the layout. Some photos show a glass roof and others show an opaque roof.