Georgetown’s New Apple
5 02 2009You may remember the on going saga over the design of the new proposed Apple store in Georgetown, well it sounds like after last weeks ANC meeting we finally have a compromise. While the design is no longer a big flat white wall like in earlier proposal, it still manages to stay appley. The Georgetown Metropolitain got their hands on some of the renderings (pictured below) from ANC2E, what do you think?
Update: The Old Georgetown Board has rejected the design.
[Rendering: The Georgetown Metropolitain]
Doesn’t look much different than the way the building looks right now, it will fit right into the block. I’m glad the ANC held firm and didn’t cave to the big corporation!
This one is too conservative still, damn. They keep overshooting or undershooting. This looks like any Apple store in a mall. They need to add another floor at least, that’ll spruce this up a lot more and I’d like to see a better interior.
It looks like most of the block. However, it is easily the least impressive of any Apple store facade I’ve seen. Which raises the question “is historic preservation the maintenance of excellence or is it imposing a lowest common denominator of design, or is it something else altogether?” I like georgetown, but I don’t know if the idea that the look of its design should never change is really the best.
Snooze. Yet another reason it’s hard to take Washington seriously as a real city rather than a massive stage set.
Boooorrring! The Apple Store should be downtown, in a cool, funky space. Or Foggy Bottom, Dupont Circle, etc.
If this wasn’t Apple, you wouldn’t be so eager to bend over (literally) for them to destroy a building in a historic district and replace it with some glass billboard that pretty much only fits with their product, that may or may not be around for another decade. You can’t allow something to be torn down just because you’re a fanboy of the company doing it. If this was Express or Lane Bryant I don’t think anyone would be faulting the ANC…
I agree, which is why I almost think they should rethink this and pick a location where they can have more freedom from the design standpoint like Chinatown, CT. Ave. or near Macy’s.
It’s not about zoning. It’s a plot by that interfering schemer, Bill Gates.
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