Electronics

Apple Store Ginza

Tokyo

Published

19 years ago

February 1, 2005

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Innovative Exterior
Special Award
Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, Calif.

The Ginza store's minimal rectilinear form and elegant materials contrast starkly with its busy surroundings. Bead-blasted stainless-steel panels mark the first three levels, while the top five floors use an open-joint, glass, rain-screen system in front of floor-to-ceiling, stainless-steel, sliding-glass doors — which also create an acoustical and weather barrier for the interior. And two custom-designed all-glass elevators add to the exterior ambiance.

Client/Design: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, Calif.
Steve Jobs, ceo
Ron Johnson, executive vp, retail development and graphic design

Apple Store Ginza: Chuo-Ku, Tokyo: Sayegusa Honkan

Design Architect: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Berkeley, Calif.
Peter Bohlin, design principal
Karl Backus, principal, project director
Anastasia Congdon, project manager

Architect/Engineer/General Contractor: KAJIMA Design, Tokyo

Outside Design Consultants: Eight Inc., San Francisco (design associate and fixture designer)
Gensler, Tokyo (design associate)
Dewhurst MacFarlane & Partners Inc., New York (structural engineer)
Flack & Kurtz Inc., San Francisco (MEP engineer)
ISP Design, Miami (lighting design)

Photography: Roy Zipstein, New York

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