Glass Cube Apple leaked

The most famous Apple Store is located on Fifth Avenue in New York City. It is in the form of a glass cube. Not long ago, Apple held reconstruction store, replacing the transparent panel of which it is making. Originally it consisted of 90 glass panels, and after reconstruction of their number was reduced to six times.

 

On the eve of New York was heavy rain and, to the great astonishment of visitors and store employees, the cube started to leak - water poured from the roof, filling the tables with players and laptops Apple. Fortunately, the incident occurred when the Apple Store were only 15 people. Everything worked out, no one was hurt.

It is assumed that the glass roof leak occurred because of unfair assembly during reconstruction.

 

Glass Cube for Apple designed the architectural firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Inside the building there are elevator and a spiral staircase made of glass. The project was marked by several awards.

During the seven years of the store on Fifth Avenue cube has become one of the attractions of New York. Recently, it was found that it is one of the most "photogenic" structures of the city - on the number of images on photo sharing it competes with an area of ​​Times Square and Rockefeller Center skyscraper.