Sydney Apple Store - Architect's Drawings

In October 2006 Apple submitted architectural drawings to the planning department of Sydney (Australia)
for a three-level store at 367 George Street in the central business district.

On Feb. 6, 2007 the planning department approved the plans and they were revealed to the public for the first time.
In the drawings, the building is alternately referred to as "George Street" or "77 King Street," the latter is the sidestreet.

Download (pdf) a copy of all the drawings here.

In Apple's photo-rendering of the future building (left), you can barely make out the glass façade that extends from the sidewalk
upward three levels. In the middle is a suspended white Apple logo. The glass façade actually forms a "box" on the front of the
building, taking the place of a similar, yet less distinctive, structure on the current building (right). Apple's version is much more
transparent, an relies on the companies patented design and structural elements perfected at the Fifth Avenue and other stores.

This drawing shows the overall building plan, with the Apple store shown in white, with other parts of the building black, and surrounding buildings
in cross-hatch. The retail area is to the front of the building, while offices and bathrooms are located to the left and left-rear.

This drawing show a elevation of the store showing the three levels and what services will be available on each. You can see the Genius Bar and stools on the third level.
You can also see a slim, side-view of the suspended Apple logo inside the front glass of the store.

A rare look at the complicated schematic drawing of an Apple store shows the ground floor of the future Sydney store (in white, gray areas are other parts of the building). From the drawing, it appears the store is about 85 feet wide and 60 feet deep, or about 4,800 square-feet for each of three levels. The glass stairway appears to run left-to-right in the store. The drawing also indicates the back office areas of the store, which are to the left, and left-rear. The drawings were prepared by Apple's long-time architect Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Other members of the team are noted in the right column: mechanical and electrical engineers Flack + Kurtz; glass stairway engineers Eckersley O'Callaghan, Australia-based architects The Buchan Group, and lighting designers ISP Lighting Design.

Here is the whiz-band façade of the future Apple retail store in downtown Sydney (Australia). The dark gray areas represent suspended glass in front of the three levels of
retail space. The suspended Apple logo is 3 meters tall, or about 10 feet. The store is about 82 feet wide, although in this view the building adds about another 12 feet to
width.