Am I misremembering, or was this some kind of museum building before? Or was it specially built by Apple? Whatever it is, pretty amazing looking.

But what a shame, you can't even fantasize about going to see places any more without a little bit of stress/uncertainty right now. 17 hour flight? 2 week quarantine on arrival? ok...

Anyway, I'm also interested to know how Apple (or other similar retail) decides to put a store somewhere. Is it a straight potential mobile subscriber $ figure, or population disposable income within-x-radius kind of thing? Is it the same threshold across countries? Must be a ~$10M investment to build a store like this. Worth 10,000 customers?

The ArtScience Museum and the Louis Vuitton "floating" store are still there. The Apple store replaces the "floating" nightclub.

It's interesting that this is Singapore's 3rd Apple store while other Southeast Asian countries don't even have one.

That is factually incorrect. In fact Bangkok has two Apple stores now: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/07/apple-central-world-o...

With the modern interior design of Apple stores I feel the designers are actually so out of touch with the rest of the society and so firmly in their own bubble that they're accidentally designing something that looks extremely tacky without realizing.

I believe they described it as being a "town square" so we have the trees and the benches but I'm going to propose they have accidentally designed something that looks more like a cheap mall food court without realizing it because they probably haven't even seen a mall food court since their childhood. Almost feels like it has the same logic behind how mall food courts were designed, make the unnatural feel natural, add trees, add a nod to the affordances of community with benches around the trees.

Honestly couldn't believe how tacky it looked when I walked past the main Apple store in London.

>With the modern interior design of Apple stores I feel the designers are actually so out of touch with the rest of the society and so firmly in their own bubble that they're accidentally designing something that looks extremely tacky without realizing.

Have you seen modernist / brutalist / modern / post modern architecture? From 1920 to today? There's nothing ugliest and more unlivable (in the pretenses of "high brow" BS concepts) than 99% of it.

In comparison, the Apple stores are a breath of fresh air. Tacky? Hardly...

>Honestly couldn't believe how tacky it looked when I walked past the main Apple store in London.

You keep using that word, tacky. I don't think it means what you think it means...

This is the "unbelievable tacky" place, because it has trees inside?

https://cnet3.cbsistatic.com/img/LDehHb_uk995yFKthCDfgOhboH8...

>I don't think it means what you think it means...

Hit a nerve I guess if you're gonna resort to that.

>This is the "unbelievable tacky" place, because it has trees inside?

Yes the overall design, the style of seating, the choice of trees, the choice of wood, the actual design of the furniture, looks like a mall food court https://www.across-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/C...

>Hit a nerve I guess if you're gonna resort to that.

I resort to that all the time, so don't bet much money on it "hitting a nerve". Just bothered me enough to want to comment - which also happens all the time, even for minor pedantic corrections.

>Yes the overall design, the style of seating, the choice of trees, the choice of wood, the actual design of the furniture, looks like a mall food court

Well, that's a very pretty mall food court if I ever saw one. Great for the AS to look like a high end version of that (with superior exterior architecture to boot). If that's "unbelievably tacky" I'll have to re-use the Princess Bride line...

Because the ones I've actually seen in the wild in dozens of malls I've been look like this:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c3/b1/fb/c3b1fbc6c0bfa52eb3cb...

I like Apple Stores, but those trees… yes, tacky.

Yeah couldn’t fathom why millions of people would choose to walk into that store and buy things.

Do they buy things? they just seem to be using it as an internet cafe when I go in.

I see your other posts here, about tackiness.

You've gotta be trolling.. Apple is well known to have some of the highest sales-per-sq-foot among retailers.

Facebook is also very successful, isn't it a bit tacky too?

I think the stores are also used as a way to unconsciously create an impression in the person's mind that Apple is luxury brand.

Why do you go to that place? It’s tacky!

> Honestly couldn't believe how tacky it looked when I walked past the main Apple store in London

Such a nice store, super convenient location and fast service.

“the first Apple Store to sit directly on the water. ”

Lies! I once bought a mac onboard a ship in the early 2000s.

:)

Was it an Apple Store tho?

It was a store that I bought an Apple computer in.

Is that the navy where they attack 3rd party repair people from? Is there anybody left who thinks Apple is cool because they have shiny buildings ?

Plenty of people like apple stores.