New Apple Store - New York, 5th Avenue

While slightly off topic for this blog, having seen pictures of the recently unveiled Apple Store on 5th Avenune, I could not resist the temptation to post something about.



After being covered up for alomst a year, Apple unveiled the impressive 3-storey, 32-foot-high, Glass Cube that forms the entrance to their latest NYC store. Building on Apple's almost un-paralleled reputation for product design, largely thanks to design hero Joanathan Ives (Apple's British SVP of Industrial Design), the new store succeeds in looking as slick and covetable as the notebooks and iPods that they sell inside.



Comparisons between this striking glass cube and the Apple PowerCube (one of Apple's rare recently commercial failures - although a sought after collector's item) have already been made in several articles.

The retail store itself is underground with access via an impressive glass staircase from street level. Once inside the 10,000 square foot store, customers will be able to play with over 200 iPods and over 100 Macs.



Once opened later today, the lastest Apple store will remain open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year!