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A timber-clad column and overhanging roof that resembles a tree canopy characterise Foster + Partners' latest Apple Store, which it has completed in Bangkok, Thailand. More about Tree-like column is centrepiece of Apple Central World by Foster + Partners
A large overhanging roof shelters the expansive glass walls that front the "open and inviting" Apple Sanlitun store by Foster + Partners in Beijing, China. More about Foster + Partners designs "porous" Apple store in Beijing
Apple's glass Fifth Avenue store in New York City has reopened to the public following a renovation by Foster + Partners that added a spiral staircase, skylights and public plaza. More about Foster + Partners restores "iconic" glass Apple Fifth Avenue
The latest Apple Store in Tokyo is fronted by a row of two-storey protruding windows that turn the shopfront into a series of display cabinets. More about Foster + Partners' latest Apple Store opens in central Tokyo
Foster + Partners has completed its latest Apple Store in Miami with an undulating white concrete roof that draws on the city's art deco buildings. More about Wavy white concrete roof tops Foster + Partners' Apple Aventura store in Miami
Foster + Partners has collaborated with the Apple design team and architecture firm Beyer Blinder Belle to transform a neoclassical building in the US capital into a sleek retail space with a skylit atrium, where events are held to "entertain and inspire the local people". More about Foster + Partners converts historic Washington DC library into Apple Store
A controversial plan for an Apple Store, designed by Foster + Partners in Melbourne's Federation Square, has been abandoned after it was blocked by Australian heritage authorities. More about Federation Square's Foster + Partners-designed Apple Store axed
Foster + Partners has designed a succession of Apple Stores that implement the tech giant's retail vision. From Paris to Istanbul, here are 10 of its best designs. More about Ten of the most appealing Apple Stores designed by Foster + Partners
Angela Ahrendts, the "transformative force" behind Apple Store designs, will leave her position at the tech company this spring. More about Apple's head of retail Angela Ahrendts to step down
Foster + Partners has completed the first Apple Store in Kyoto, Japan, which has a translucent facade informed by the materiality of traditional Japanese houses and lanterns. More about Foster + Partners models Apple Store in Kyoto on traditional Japanese houses
Indigenous trees and wooden workbenches line the inside of Apple Iconsiam in Bangkok, the first Apple Store to open in Thailand, designed by Foster + Partners. More about Foster + Partners use trees as partitions inside Thailand’s first Apple store
A kaleidoscopic solar roof tops the courtyard of Foster + Partners' latest Apple Store, which opened on the Champs-Élysées in Paris over the weekend. More about Foster + Partners unveils Apple Store in Parisian apartment on Champs-Élysées
In Milan the latest Foster + Partners-designed Apple Store features a dramatic water feature in an update on the traditional Italian piazza. More about Fountains jet water over entrance to Foster + Partners' sunken Apple Store in Milan
Foster + Partners has completely overhauled its plans for an Apple Store in Melbourne's Federation Square, but critics claim it has "simply swapped a Pizza Hut pagoda for an oversized iPad". More about Foster + Partners plans new Federation Square Apple Store to replace "Pizza Hut pagoda" design
Tall shoots of bamboo rise through the central atrium of a new Apple Store completed by Foster + Partners in Macau, China. More about Foster + Partners unveils Apple Store in Macau with translucent stone walls and bamboo
Building an Apple Store may be the best way to safeguard the civic character of Melbourne's Federation Square, argues Michelle Tabet. More about "Apple may be the lesser of all evils for Federation Square"
Foster + Partners has designed its "most ambitious" Apple Store for Chicago, with huge glass walls and a slender roof that looks like a scaled-up version of the company's laptop computer. More about Macbook-shaped roof tops Foster + Partners' glazed Apple Store in Chicago
Foster + Partners has built yet another tree-filled Apple Store, but this one also features hand-carved stone staircases. More about Foster + Partners opens "one of our greenest Apple spaces yet" in Singapore
Filigreed carbon-fibre shutters fold around the oriel window of Foster + Partners' Apple Store in Dubai, shading the shop floor during the day but opening at night to views of the Burj Khalifa. More about Foster + Partners completes Dubai Apple Store with carbon-fibre "solar wings"