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Re:Apple Marina Bay Sands Opens Thursday in Singapore by coldtea on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @08:22AM (#24407680)
>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...

Re:Apple Marina Bay Sands Opens Thursday in Singapore by whywhywhywhy on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @09:10AM (#24408006)
>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...

Re:Apple Marina Bay Sands Opens Thursday in Singapore by coldtea on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @10:22AM (#24408650)
>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...

Re:Apple Marina Bay Sands Opens Thursday in Singapore by mumblerino on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @01:09PM (#24410397)
I like Apple Stores, but those trees… yes, tacky.