Foster + Partners debuts seismically resistant Apple store in Beijing's Sanlitun district
Foster + Partners has released photos of the firm's new AppleSanlitun retail storefront in Beijing. The store is located within a shopping and entertainment district in China's capital city that was originally home to Apple's first store in China back in 2008. The store was recently relocated to a new site by Foster + Partners, which has created a design meant to spark a "new dialogue with the surrounding pedestrian streets, addressing the large open square that is a social focus for the district." Image courtesy of Chaoying Yang.Remarking on the recently completed project, Stefan Behling, Head of Studio, Foster + Partners writes via press release, “Apple Sanlitun is all about being open and inviting – visually, physically and metaphorically. The store is a grand place that connects the inside and the outside.” Image courtesy of Chaoying Yang.The storefront's prominent site within key circulation nodes within the district prompted the architects to create a space that opens on mult...
Foster + Partners has released photos of the firm's new AppleSanlitun retail storefront in Beijing.
The store is located within a shopping and entertainment district in China's capital city that was originally home to Apple's first store in China back in 2008. The store was recently relocated to a new site by Foster + Partners, which has created a design meant to spark a "new dialogue with the surrounding pedestrian streets, addressing the large open square that is a social focus for the district."
Remarking on the recently completed project, Stefan Behling, Head of Studio, Foster + Partners writes via press release, “Apple Sanlitun is all about being open and inviting – visually, physically and metaphorically. The store is a grand place that connects the inside and the outside.”
The storefront's prominent site within key circulation nodes within the district prompted the architects to create a space that opens on mult...
