Apple Miami Worldcenter is a nature and accessibility paradise

Apple Miami Worldcenter is opening on January 24, with the unique storefront designed for accessibility and the environment, complete with a plant-covered roof.

Apple Stores often offer designs that incorporate the retail outlet aesthetic into interesting buildings and structures, beyond the typical mall locations. With Apple Miami Worldcenter, Apple is taking a very outlandish approach.

Photographs shared days ahead of its January 24 opening reveal Apple Miami Worldcenter to be an unusual store design, even for Apple. For a start, while it is a store that is surrounded by skyscrapers, it's a ground-level retail space without stairs or any additional height.

The store occupies a large rectangular parcel of land, but one that tries to offer a very nature-focused approach. Trees and plants surround the outside of the store, while the roof is also covered with greenery.

A spacious, bright tech store with wooden tables displaying electronic devices, several people browsing products, and staff in blue shirts assisting customers.

Looking down the tables at the new store - Image Credit: Apple

The biophilic design is apparently inspired by Miami's Latin America influence and is intended to make the store as inviting as possible to the local community. Using universal design principles, it has varied table and seating heights, as well as wheelchair-friendly access routes.

A portable hearing loop is provided for users with hearing aids, as well as an assistive listening loop at the Today at Apple table.

Today At Apple at Apple Miami Worldcenter - Image Credit: Apple

Inside, it uses a primarily wooden aesthetic, using regionally-sourced timber and other low-carbon materials. Aside from a low carbon intensity construction, the store itself is carbon neutral and runs on 100% renewable energy.

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As for what the store offers, Apple Miami Worldcenter will provide the usual services, including trade-ins, carrier activation, and personalized setup of the iPhone 16.

People in a modern store setting; one person wearing VR headset, others seated nearby engaged with tablets. Wood-paneled walls and tech displays in the background.

Side seating areas in Apple Miami Worldcenter - Image Credit: Apple

While it will be the tenth Apple Store to open in Miami, it will be the first to have a dedicated Apple Pickup area, so customers can quickly acquire their online orders.

"Miami is a city with a history, culture, and life all its own, and we are thrilled to capture that energy with Apple Miami Worldcenter in downtown Miami," said Apple SVP of Retail and People Deirdre O'Brien.

"This new store brings Apple values to life in every detail, while celebrating the creativity of the city with an incredible lineup of in-store sessions," the SVP continued. "Our team can't wait to welcome customers and share exceptional personal shopping and support experiences like only Apple can."

Store interior with light wood, two service counters labeled Genius Bar and Pickup, four people interacting, two seated, two standing.

The Apple Pickup desk at Apple Miami Worldcenter - Image Credit: Apple

In hyping the storefront's opening, Apple has offered consumers flower-based wallpapers for the Mac, the iPhone, and iPad.

12 Comments

entropys 14 Years · 4398 comments

About 2 months ago

“Biophillic”
designers and marketers really love to get a tight grip on their, umm “genius” don’t they? They are really marketing themselves.

It reminds me of the MBA fad of twenty years ago where every ambitious young executive to be would come out with their own marvellous organisational theory they would proselytise to the C suite as a way to climb the ladder. Worse, when their theory actually resulted in a restructure that was inflicted on the poor worker. See also change types would rock in, inflict change and then move on claiming victory long before the results are exposed by the next MBA and their theory. They were like seagulls: fly in making lots of noise, shit everywhere and then move on to do the same elsewhere. Nowadays the MBA fad to climb the corporate ladder is Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning.

But I digress. I really like the interior, where wood everywhere is very on trend. It seems there is a tonne of storage and workrooms on either side, or are they other shops? As for the garden roof, well, nothing new there.

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tht 24 Years · 5790 comments

About 2 months ago

Looks like any other Apple Store?

What I would like to see are sound dampening materials, inside the store. Place is loud!

Obviously, I'm big on being carbon neutral, if not negative. So, roof has to be either a solar PV panel set, painted white or passive radiative cooling panels. There should be battery storage. Windows are thermally efficient or solar PV. Parking lot, if an open field, not a garage, should be covered by PV panels.

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SmittyW 1 Year · 33 comments

About 2 months ago

tht said:

Looks like any other Apple Store?

What I would like to see are sound dampening materials, inside the store. Place is loud!

Obviously, I'm big on being carbon neutral, if not negative. So, roof has to be either a solar PV panel set, painted white or passive radiative cooling panels. There should be battery storage. Windows are thermally efficient or solar PV. Parking lot, if an open field, not a garage, should be covered by PV panels.

I'm guessing Apple considers the 'liveliness' of the noise a good juxtaposition to the minimalist style. Although, perhaps the noise is why they include trees in some of their stores.

Personally, I was disappointed about the carbon neutral part. Geologically speaking, we're at record-low CO2 levels. The plants/algae, and thus every other form of life on this planet, need more CO2. %0.04 of the atmosphere is anemic.

Regardless, I can't wait to visit this store, maybe even for the opening, it looks amazing.

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Wesley Hilliard 5 Years · 418 comments

About 2 months ago

SmittyW said:

tht said:

Looks like any other Apple Store?

What I would like to see are sound dampening materials, inside the store. Place is loud!

Obviously, I'm big on being carbon neutral, if not negative. So, roof has to be either a solar PV panel set, painted white or passive radiative cooling panels. There should be battery storage. Windows are thermally efficient or solar PV. Parking lot, if an open field, not a garage, should be covered by PV panels.

I'm guessing Apple considers the 'liveliness' of the noise a good juxtaposition to the minimalist style. Although, perhaps the noise is why they include trees in some of their stores.

Personally, I was disappointed about the carbon neutral part. Geologically speaking, we're at record-low CO2 levels. The plants/algae, and thus every other form of life on this planet, need more CO2. %0.04 of the atmosphere is anemic.

Regardless, I can't wait to visit this store, maybe even for the opening, it looks amazing.

CO2 was thousands of PPM in pre-human history more than 32 million years ago, so yeah, from that perspective we're at a "record-low." However, the sun was 32 million years younger! It put off less heat than today. And atmospheric conditions and needs for life that existed then were very different too!

Science is cool. If you learn more than one snippet of out-of-context data, you can learn why climate change is an incredible issue and why suggesting we need more CO2 is not only incredibly ignorant but dangerous thing to say.

I won't delete your comment, but you went well out of your way to share such incredible misinformation about climate in a story about an Apple Store. I will assume our forum members are knowledgeable enough to ignore this, so I'll leave it.

Don't be weird. Stay on topic. Thanks.

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SmittyW 1 Year · 33 comments

About 2 months ago

Wesley Hilliard said:

SmittyW said:

tht said:

Looks like any other Apple Store?

What I would like to see are sound dampening materials, inside the store. Place is loud!

Obviously, I'm big on being carbon neutral, if not negative. So, roof has to be either a solar PV panel set, painted white or passive radiative cooling panels. There should be battery storage. Windows are thermally efficient or solar PV. Parking lot, if an open field, not a garage, should be covered by PV panels.

I'm guessing Apple considers the 'liveliness' of the noise a good juxtaposition to the minimalist style. Although, perhaps the noise is why they include trees in some of their stores.

Personally, I was disappointed about the carbon neutral part. Geologically speaking, we're at record-low CO2 levels. The plants/algae, and thus every other form of life on this planet, need more CO2. %0.04 of the atmosphere is anemic.

Regardless, I can't wait to visit this store, maybe even for the opening, it looks amazing.

CO2 was thousands of PPM in pre-human history more than 32 million years ago, so yeah, from that perspective we're at a "record-low." However, the sun was 32 million years younger! It put off less heat than today. And atmospheric conditions and needs for life that existed then were very different too!
Science is cool. If you learn more than one snippet of out-of-context data, you can learn why climate change is an incredible issue and why suggesting we need more CO2 is not only incredibly ignorant but dangerous thing to say.

I won't delete your comment, but you went well out of your way to share such incredible misinformation about climate in a story about an Apple Store. I will assume our forum members are knowledgeable enough to ignore this, so I'll leave it.

Don't be weird. Stay on topic. Thanks.

Are you a mod? That was on topic, by the way (if I'm missing something here, please also inform Tht).

Also, what makes you the arbiter of climate knowledge? What fundamentals of life have changed since then? I'm pretty sure that photosynthesis, the carbon cycle, etc. haven't changed. CO2 has a negligible, if any, impact on temp; we've experienced ice ages with 10x the amount of CO2 we have now, which is undisputed. Furthermore, the volstok ice cores clearly show that the increase in temp comes *before* the increases in CO2 (by 400-800 years), as one would naturally expect via outgassing of CO2 from the oceans.

The actual cause of global temp fluctuations has already been discovered (hint: it's not CO2; hint #2: it involves the earth's only source of external heat energy).

Lastly, feel free to call me weird, or some other name. But, I'd ask that you don't use ad hominems as rhetorical framing to dismiss my points.