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    Upcoming southern France Apple store to be nearly transparent

    Europe’s getting a fancy counterpart to New York’s Fifth Avenue flagship Apple Store. The building will be erected in southern France, and will be almost transparent.

    The new Apple store will be coming to Aix en Provence in France, and will be occupying the spot where a tourism building currently exists; near the Place du General de Gaulle. A large portion of the see-through structure will consist of glass. The rendering of the planned Apple Store shows only a one-level building, smaller than the Fifth Avenue store; the Aix en Provence store will have three transparent walls and a tan-looking rear wall surrounded by a stone plaza. The rendering does not show any Apple-related logos.

    According to ifoApplestore.com, “the city required Apple to build to new earthquake standards, and harmonize with the surrounding picturesque streets…the area to the west of the future store has been recently reconstructed with many upscale shops from international retailers.” Apple is expected to open up the new store location by the end of this year, or perhaps in early 2013.

    Apple’s international goals also include Switzerland, with its fourth store in the country set for the city of Basel. The building will have be two-levels, each approximately 5,000 square feet for the sales floors. The first sales floor will have twelve display tables, and the next will feature Genius Bars. Macrumors believes the Basel store may open in 2013.

    As of 2012, Apple has opened 361 of its retail stores all over the world. The company opened one of it’s latest, and definitely largest, Apple stores in New York’s Grand Central station last month. The 23,000-sq-foot store was reportedly mobbed by hundreds on the day of its opening.

     

    This article was originally posted on Digital Trends

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    8 comments

    • Gigadee  •  Phoenix, Arizona  •  4 mths ago
      Je suis un fan d'Apple incultes qui pense Steve Jobs a tout inventé
    • Symbolic  •  Pune, India  •  4 mths ago
      Bird Hits???
      • Peeulosi 4 mths ago
        Haha, hopefully, Crows will eat Blueberries and fly over.
    • Martin Rundstedt  •  Manila, Philippines  •  4 mths ago
      i hope the germans wont occupy it easily.
      • Napoleon 4 mths ago
        Coming from a Filipino? You guys have been occupied for almost 500 years and prostitute your children for peanuts. Savages you Filipinos are. If it wasn't for the United States, the Japanese would have wiped out your whole entire #$%$ island of mess hall attendants and hotel workers.
      • Martin Rundstedt 4 mths ago
        coming from a blitzkriegphobia man, the only thing you can host is a invasion, forget about the white flag, just smile and wave.. At least we fought on till 1945 and did not formally surrender, they gave us independence, not under their regime, just like your #$%$vichy) government and dont tell the americans helped us, they ransacked us since 1898.. Id rather be under the japs than under the gas chambers of the krauts.. tip for you, id rather hide in the maginot line before ill initiate Fall Gelb and beat the #$%$ out of you.. and last dont use napoleon as a name because its a disrespect for him, he hoped france will RISE to POWER not RAISE to SURRENDER.. im sorry Great Napoleon, you had done whats to be done. But hey at least you have fine french chicks!! and if you think the US is your ally? "I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me." --- General George S. Patton
      • Peeulosi 4 mths ago
        hahaha, Even Stalin thought the French would put up a fight more than 6 weeks. He knew Hitler would attack. Ran out of time faster than he knew.
    • Peeulosi  •  White Earth, North Dakota  •  4 mths ago
      So the Break room is invisible?
    • ShaunDogg  •  4 mths ago
      Dance, puppets! DANCE!!!
    • Robert  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  4 mths ago
      Herd all the sheep.
    • Joey JoJo Shabadoo  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  4 mths ago
      I'll bet you can still smell it, though.
    • Commander  •  San Diego, California  •  4 mths ago
      wow.. French and using Apple products...

      I don't think it gets more queer than that.
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