Chronicle: Apple SF store a "windowless box"
updated 12:55 pm EDT, Thu April 15, 2004
Chronicle on Apple SF
SF Chronicle columnist John King says "Apple prides itself on innovation. Creativity. Right. So what's with the heavy steel box downtown?" as he writes about Apple's flagship store in San Francisco: "Apple computers defy expectations. The Cupertino company's innovations keep slow-moving rivals like Microsoft on edge with products that come in a mind-bending array of colors and shapes. So why has this bastion of creativity dropped a ?"
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Aug 2001
Can see their point
In middle of the century, every major city in the country suffered when things were built that seemed modern and great at the time were plunked down in the middle of historic neighborhoods or, worse yet, completely replacing historic districts in the name of progress. We've all seen the ugly 60's and 70's buildings that litter our communities, or expressways placed in inopportune locations (a good example being the Scajacquada Expy that cuts through Buffalo, NY's beautiful Delaware Park) or other such follies. There's a good chance that this Apple store, in 20 years, will become another eyesore of turn of the millennium postmodern architecture.