Hasta La Ideas

Up above is an Apple patent drawing from 2002, showing the Apple Store glass staircases many of us know. The staircase sides are made from separate panes of glass.

This past Saturday your correspondent attended the re-opening of Apple’s SoHo, NYC flagship store. The newly-remodeled space is a heckuva lot bigger than it used to be, but what is bound to catch any architect/designer’s eye is the staircase. At first blush it seems the same as before, but look closer and you’ll see that this…

…on the sides, looks like this:

It’s insane; the sides are made from a zigzagging yet continuous, seam-free piece of glass that looks to exceed 30 feet at its longest point.

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