Just a couple of months ago the new, and now legendary Apple Store located on Chicago's Michigan River, opened its doors. During the first days of operation, various groups claimed that the lights inside the Apple Store they confused the birds in the environment, which end up dying when they collide with the giant crystals that make up part of the store's structure.
But it seems that it is not the only "problem" that this company is presenting to the environment. According to the Chicago Spudart blog, the new Apple Store is having trouble with ice and snow accumulating on the roof of the Apple Store since apparently it is another issue that was not taken into account when designing it.
The new Apple Store in Chicago was designed without taking into account the harsh winters in the area, since there are no gutters that are responsible for catching the melting snow, so as it happens, it falls on both sides of the store , which has forced the authorities to place a protection fence all around the store, in order to prevent a piece of snow from falling on a passerby in the area.
It is striking that with an initial investment of 62 million dollars, which was finally reduced to 27 million dollars, this new Apple Store is suffering from these kinds of design issues, especially the latter, since it is a problem that could have been taken into account by placing some design gutters that did not affect the aesthetics of the store or integrating them into the roof, but it seems that the Zeller Realty Group architectural studio was in another thing while designed this mythical Apple Store in Chicago.
cannelloni? really?
He would be hungry while he wrote it ...
Normal that there are no cannelloni, they all ate them at the Sant Esteve festival in Catalonia.
"Designed", in the last line, I think you wanted to put designed
The roof of the store is well designed. In fact, it has some heaters that prevent snow from accumulating and it has systems that make the water slide through the interior of the building's columns. This time, however, they had a software problem that prevented the correct functioning of the system, which caused the formation of ice stalactites that were detached.