Architecture Art: Top 10 Apple Stores
Apple has 279 stores, 4 are on the island of Manhattan in New York City.
The latest edition to Apple’s crown jewels, the Upper West Side Store, has a striking edifice, all glass and grey marble. The exterior is dominated by a two-story glass facade, a big white apple logo and a curved glass roof — a first for an Apple Store.
The ground floor interior is classic Apple retail, with 16 stand-alone blond wood tables on roughly 8,500 square feet of retail space — the largest single-floor display of Apple products in the world, according to the company.
Down a spiral glass staircase is a similar-size service space with two walls of software and gear and another 16 tables loaded with iMacs and MacBooks. There is a 45-foot-long Genius Bar along the back wall.
Apple began building its own outlets in 2001, and they have proved enormously profitable. A record 42.7 million customers visited Apple Stores last quarter, generating $7.6 million in revenue per store, up 15% year over year. All told, Apple Stores brought in $6.6 billion in revenue in fiscal 2009, more than the whole company generated ($5.4 billion) in 2001.
The Top 10 Apple Stores
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FIFTH AVE STORE, NYC
ROYAL HAWAIIAN STORE, HAWAII
MONTREAL STORE, QUEBEC
UPPER WEST SIDE STORE, NYC
CARROUSEL DU LOUVRE STORE, PARIS
BOSTON STORE, MASSACHUSETTS
SANTA BARBARA STORE, CALIFORNIA
SANLITUN STORE, CHINA
SYDNEY STORE, AUSTRALIA
LONDON STORE, UK
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