Apple Tower Theatre is a new Apple Store designed by UK studio Foster + Partners inside an abandoned 1920s movie theatre in Downtown Los Angeles.
Foster + Partners worked with the technology company to renovate the historic building, which was originally designed by American architect S Charles Lee in 1927 in the baroque revival style.
The movie theatre was built in the 1920s
At the intersection of Eighth Street and Broadway, Tower Theatre was the first theatre in Los Angeles to be wired for showing motion pictures with sound , but it had been shuttered since 1988.
Apple and Foster + Partners undertook the renovation in a collaboration with the City of Los Angeles and expert preservationists.
The entry hall was originally modelled on the Paris Opera House The project included restoring the theatre's corner clock tower and renovating the blade sign that projects from its side.
Tower Theatre's terracotta facade was also cleaned and a canopy that extends over Broadway was rebuilt.

Inside, a grand entry hall designed in the style of Charles Garnier's Paris Opera House, complete with bronze handrails and marble columns, has been restored to its former splendour. The staircase features a plush red carpet.
At the centre of Apple Tower Theatre is the Forum, a large retail space with a display screen hung in the restored arch where the cinema screen would once have been.
The movie theate has been transformed into an Apple Store
The movie theatre's original balconies remain in s...