Apple Reportedly Hires Foster + Partners To Redesign Their Retail Stores [Rumor]

Apple Reportedly Hires Foster + Partners To Redesign Their Retail Stores [Rumor]Apple’s retail stores have managed to gain the reputation for being big, brightly lit and modern with their choice of glass, metal and wood for its interior design, but could it be that Apple is getting tired of this design and might be looking to change things up? According to Marketing Magazine, that could indeed be the case as they claim that Apple has hired architecture firm, Foster + Partners, to work on new retail store designs for them.

As it stands, Apple has used Foster + Partners in the past to help with the design of their spaceship campus (pictured above), while they have turned to Foster + Partners’ competitor, 8 Inc., for creating their retail stores. While the retail stores look pretty good the way they are right now, if the spaceship campus is anything to go by, we would definitely be interested in seeing what the end result might be. Naturally Apple and Foster + Partners has declined to comment, claiming that they do not comment on rumor or speculation, and that any work with Apple is confidential to begin with.

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Microsoft’s first international store set to open this fall in Canada

Microsoft's first international store set to open this fall in Canada

Living it up in the True North and wishing there was a Microsoft Store near you to take advantage of that subsidized Xbox 360 deal? Or, you know, give Windows Phone a run for its money? Well, if all goes according to plan, you might be able to do just that pretty soon — this fall, to be exact. According to Canadian Reviewer, Redmond’s own Tedd Ladd has told the site his company’s about to open up one of its decorated retail shops in the Land of Poutine later this year, with Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto being chosen as the place to help kick things off internationally. Currently, all of Microsoft’s 20 B&M stores are in the US of A, so this would mark the outfit’s first outside of the States — and surprisingly enough, Ladd also mentioned this will be the 31st when it opens, perhaps hinting that there’s some more on the way.

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