Ondrej Holzman On Saturday, the doors of the new Apple Store opened in Hangzhou, China, which is the largest of its kind in Asia to date. Another architectural gem is completely glass from the front and is very similar to the Apple Store, which is now also growing in San Francisco.
The West Lake Apple Store, named after a lake in Hangzhou, is the first of five stores Apple plans to open in China before the start of the Chinese New Year on February 19. Follow him on Twitter for a new adventure marked also CEO Tim Cook. In total, Apple wants to open twenty-five new stores in China by the end of 2016.
Starting Something New in Hangzhou, China! #AppleStoreWestLake pic.twitter.com/8L5gVKfLjn
- Tim Cook (@tim_cook) January 24, 2015
The newest one in Hangzhou has everything you would expect from a modern Apple Store. Through the giant glass panels, we can see the division into two floors, in which we also find a Genius Bar and a special area for workshops and personal training.
Before the official opening, Apple held a special campaign where the building was covered with a white canvas on which calligrapher Wang Dongling hand-wrote the over two thousand-year-old Chinese poem "Praising West Lake in the Rain". On Friday, Apple also published an English version of the video, where he explains the story with the poem.
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Nice, I'm already looking forward to the Apple store in Prague.
Apple store in Prague?
We'll probably wait, I don't think we're that important to Apple, when Kort pushed us up to the third wave during sales :/
It will be earlier in Pyeongyang...
Corner glass buildings, so much innovation :)
How old are you?
I think the video is much more interesting than the cube.