Coffee Downtown

Earlier this year, the third of the Disneyland Resort's Starbucks franchises opened in Downtown Disney.  A beautiful exercise in contemporary design, with stylish, totally clear glass, sleek steel structure, and warm wood plank finishes is elegant and welcoming at the same time--a nice mix of Disneyland's emotional nostalgia mixed with the world's largest coffee chain striving for more modern aesthetics.

I snapped several photos back in June when I photographed this, which itself was several months after the store's grand opening.  With no one around at night, the facade was ripe for architectural photography, and my friends and I all agreed that this new store was a most successful design!