Apple’s plans to build a glass front and glass roof store in Santa Monica were approved this week, and the city’s Planning Commission didn’t even need a moment to discuss the project.
Apple had proposed the mostly glass building redesign for a store space previously occupied by a Borders book store, and approval for the remodel was required by Santa Monica’s Planning Commission. This week’s planning meeting, according to the Santa Monica Dispatch, handled that approval in surprisingly short order.
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Details of the remodel were presented to the Commission by the city staff without identifying which company planned to use the space. The Commission immediately ran Apple’s project through its complete approval process without any discussion — a move that apparently never happens in the city.
The new Apple Store, according to LA Curbed, will sit on the Third Street Promenade near Santa Monica Blvd. The one-story store will cover about 8,084 square feet and Apple is apparently planning on offering employees incentives for using alternative transportation methods when commuting to work.
Apple hasn’t commented on the new store location yet.
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On the site of a Borders Book Store! I guess the rumors about Apple buying a book store are true.
I wonder how the glass roof will affect the glossy screens of display Macs and iPads.
A glass roof in Santa Monica, which gets very warm in spring-summer-fall, correlates with high air-conditioning costs. I wonder if employees using bike or alternative transportation will offset the costs, both financial and environmental, for this design’s high energy usage.
glass roof store is actually a greenhouse store. What are they thinking? That wound make sense in a cold weather area, no there in Santa Monica!!
Bring your sunscreen lotion everybody!!
That would be true for normal air-conditioning, but not for a heat-pump system that is cooled (basically) for free by a 75-100 ft. geothermal heating/cooling well shaft system below that building.
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Bingo! Nice point!
You’ve got me wondering now, what would be the next vestiges of the vast Borders holdings that we’ll see popping up inside Apple’s burgeonings? All those titles? A lot more stores?
Maybe the roof/wall glass will be polarized against glare. I wonder how Apple’s other glass-roofed stores deal with glare.
BTW, I wonder what they are using that unroofed narrow rectangular space at the back of the building for.
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You can get a matte skylight, but not matte screens.
Touch?! You’ve cut that Apple to the quick!
Many Apple users are accustomed to glares?-from PC/Microsoft/Android fans, etc. ; )
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