Foster & Partners has announced the opening of its latest Apple Store in Japan, located at the base of a 1970s office block in Tokyo’s financial heart.

The firm’s Apple Marunouchi store occupies two levels of the Mitsubishi Building, next to Tokyo Station – one of the Japanese capital’s busiest transport interchanges.

Fosters said the expressed structure of the 1973 high-rise offered an opportunity to create a unique façade defined by innovative two-storey vitrines providing a distinctive showcase for Apple.

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