Apple Fifth Avenue at 767 Fifth Avenue is a store on and beneath a public plaza opposite Grand Army Plaza. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, led by Peter Bohlin, designed the original, which opened on May 19, 2006. Foster + Partners rebuilt it with Jony Ive from 2017 to 2019, and it reopened on September 20, 2019. The site once held the Savoy-Plaza Hotel of 1927, demolished in 1963. The article names no style.
A glass cube entrance, 32 feet (9.8 m) per side, marks the plaza. It originally used 90 glass panels and has 15 after a 2011 renovation. Below, a stainless steel spiral staircase and a mirrored cylinder replaced the original glass staircase. Walls are pale gray Italian stone and floors are terrazzo.
The store is open 24 hours a day, the only Apple Store that is. Sales averaged about $1 million a day in its first year.
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