Design Manager at Apple Retail Development Department in Cupertino, CA

Apple have considerably changed the landscape for consumer electronics retailers and influenced other technological companies to follow suit.

The Apple Store chain ranks first among U.S. retailers in terms of sales per unit area in 2011, with sales of US$3,085 per square feet, almost doubling Tiffany & Co., the second retailer on the list.

Apple has become among the most recognized brand expressions in retail.

COMPLETED WORK:

Puerta del Sol, Madrid, Spain

Den Haag, Netherlands

Arndale, Manchester, UK

Village Mall, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Haarlem, Netherlands

Vala Centrum, Helsingborg, Sweden

Puerto Venecia, Zaragoza, Spain

Gran Plaza 2, Madrid, Spain

Rio Shopping, Valladolid, Spain

Nueva Condomina, Murcia, Spain

New York, USA (Completed 2007)

The New Museum is located on the Bowery at a pivotal geographic and cultural intersection where generations of artists have lived, worked, and contributed to the ongoing cultural dialogue of the nation.

The building, a dramatic stack of six rectangular boxes, is clad in a seamless, anodized expanded aluminum mesh to emphasize the volumes of the boxes while dressing the whole of the building with a delicate, softly shimmering skin.

With windows just visible behind this porous scrim-like surface, the building appears as a single, coherent form that is nevertheless mutable, dynamic, and animated by the changing light of day.

PROGRAM: Gallery Space, Auditorium, Education Center, Event Space.

AREA: 6.000 m2

CLIENT: The New Museum of Contemporary Art

PROJECT COST: $50 million

PHOTOS: Iwan Baan, Dean Kaufman, Javier Haddad

ROLE: Design Architect (SANAA)

Las Palmas de GC, Spain (Competition 2004)

A €400 Million Masterplan, 6.6 Million square feet including 3.6 million square feet of public space, a World Trade Center, a 300-room hotel, two 27-story residential towers, a cruise ship terminal, parking and retail spaces. The project also proposes major infrastructure improvements like the depression of a highway and the relocation of obsolete harbor facility. SANAA proposal tries to liberate as much as free space as possible in the center of one of the densest cities of Europe by very careful insertions on the pre-existing grid and by locating the majority of the program on an artificial island-building.

PROGRAM: World Trace Center, Residential Towers, City Hall Building, a Crusier Terminal, retail space and Public Open Space.

AREA: 600.000 m2

CLIENT: Port Authority of Las Palmas

PROJECT COST: €400 million

ROLE: Project Architect (SANAA)