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Apple Computer store: Chicago

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The following are some photos of the Apple Computer Store on North Michigan Avenue in Chicago. It opened about a year ago.

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Other buildings on North Michigan Avenue (not a comprehensive sample though):

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That building design would never have made it through our plan commission...although we don't exactly have Macintosh beating down our door, either...
 
Don't mind the idea of modern architecture in that environment; it provides some contrast with older buildings on the street.

Don't like the facade. It looks like something from the 1950s, when older buildings had window openings of upper floors covered up with a slab to appear more "modern," like this.

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The side wall and its small window display is inexcusable. It makes the streetscape colder and less inviting.
 
Dan said:
The side wall and its small window display is inexcusable. It makes the streetscape colder and less inviting.
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...especially because this was new construction, not rehab.
 
Wrong Country....

Looks like something that belongs in Germany or the Netherlands.....not Chicago....How original.....a big shiny box with a couple of apples....could have saved a lot of money by just renting a mall space..... :cool:
 
There are worse buildings on Michigan Ave. than this one. I agree the side wall is a huge blunder though.

Of course, Chicago waits to find out what Blair Kamin thinks... (I'm sure his opinion has been voiced, I just don't remember seeing it).
 
I like the front, but the side is almost there - not quite. They should have made it a bit more interactive but overall the form is ok (i.e. to make it right you need to modify, not completely do away with).
 
The front looks like the back of a laptop's monitor when open. The transparent apple is interesting, but not really worth the blankness and blandness of the rest of the box. The street level of the side is indeed horrible.
 
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