Apple Orchard Road, Singapore Flagship Store Images, Interior Architecture
Apple Orchard Road in Singapore
Signature Store Interior Design, South East Asia – design by Foster + Partners
29 May 2017
Apple Flagship
Architects: Foster + Partners
Location: Singapore
Apple Orchard Road ? the first Apple Flagship in Singapore opens

Apple Orchard Road is the first Apple Flagship in Singapore, highlighting its role as a global centre for creativity. Its design reflects the vibrancy and innovative spirit of the city-state. The project is another example of the close collaboration between Foster + Partners and the design team at Apple led by chief design officer, Sir Jonathan Ive and Angela Ahrendts, senior vice president of Retail and Online Stores. Located along the tree-lined avenue, Orchard Road ? at the heart of the garden city ? the flagship aims to create a new social focus, while working with nature. It blurs the boundaries between inside and outside.
Singapore is considered one of the greenest cities in the world, and the new flagship embodies this theme, inspired by the origins of Orchard Road, when nutmeg and fruit orchards dominated the site. It embraces the wide pavement in front of the store, forming a new public space with eight mature trees that create a shaded ?green orchard?, and provide a natural meeting place amid the dense urban environment. Its 120-foot (36.5m) wide glazed storefront dematerialises the building?s facade. A thin, white canopy cantilever...