As reported by SocketSite, revised plans for Apple’s proposed flagship retail store in San Francisco’s Union Square include new renderings of the location.
The prospective store is now pictured to feature two–story sliding glass panels standing 44 feet tall and 23 feet wide, allowing the building to be opened up to the street. The store will also include regular glass doors that would act as a primary point of entry when the larger doors are closed.
Last May Apple firstly planed to move its existing Stockton Street flagship store three blocks north, giving the store a larger footprint and prime location in the Union Square shopping district. But plans quickly ran into opposition as critics panned multiple aspects of the proposal, such as the idea to remove a sculptural fountain created by late sculpture artist Ruth Asawa and the installation of a 80-foot-long windowless wall along a key pedestrian and transit corridor. Soon after, city officials made clear that significant changes would be needed for the project if it was to receive approval.
Apple then revised plans to address some of the proposal’s biggest criticisms, stating that it would keep the fountain, add an eight-foot wide window along the Stockton Street frontage, and move to pull the proposed glass wall of the store back by four feet to add a greater sense of depth and more shadows for visual interest.
City officials were pleased by Apple’s proposed changes, although the project must still pass through full review before it can be approved. A part of that review will take place onWednesday, February 5, as the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission will meet to discuss Apple’s request for a permit to construct the store. When Apple plans to opent the new store it is yet unknown probably because they are waitinf rof review and permiting process.
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