Apple opened in Canada, in Vancouver, a new Apple Store in the category of those who always turn heads with their architecture. The store by Pacific CentreBritish Columbia (West Coast) is a two-storey building with an impressive full-height, curved glass facade at the corners.
These glass panels rise 9.7 meters and give a view of the entire store. It’s not huge on its own, but it looks great with its loft roof. However, this architecture is not new, the Apple agency, Foster+Partners, used it for the first time in 2017 in Chicago for an even more surprising store.
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The transition between the ground floor and the first floor is made by a staircase with natural lighting in the ceiling, which Apple describes as one of the largest of its blinds (13.7 meters). The awning leans against a green exterior wall a little over 12 meters high.
240 people work in this store, the only one in Vancouver (it replaces a previous one which was smaller) and the 28th in Canada. In the end, this is not very much given the size of the country, if we consider that France has 20 and the United Kingdom has 39. But Canada is relatively sparsely populated (38 million inhabitants).