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Everybody loves the big blue furniture store, sitting here in my living room I can count at least 25 things I’ve purchased from IKEA.
Anyway, they’ve got hundreds of stores and here’s one in Spain (in the flight path to this airport) and another in France (which isn’t near an airport?).
Thanks: Matt & Manuel Fernandez
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And near Vancouver:
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At the airport mentioned, there are some planes parked pretty closely:
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I think the first IKEA was in Älmhult in Sweden. It does not have high resolution though
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This one (under construction in the photo, but open for nearly 3 years now) is in Orange County, California:
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Hicksville, New York:
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Newark, New Jersey:
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Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth is the store in Schaumburg, IL, but alas, no markings on the roof. However, it’s in the flight path from the northwest into O’Hare, and the blue building is a welcome sight on the way in.
Correction to Ken’s post, here is the Coquitlam store, complete with a design on the roof.
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Another IKEA store, this one in Amadora, Portugal.
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In Budapest, Hungary
we have 2 stores but only one is in hi-res:
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Here’s another in Badalona (Spain):
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Here is another one in Spain near Barcelona with good design on the roof.
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Re Syrus’ post,
The freeway just to the north seems to stop abruptly west of that interchange. I wonder is that an unfinished road or the entrance to a tunnel?
Replying to myself, it is a tunnel – just scroll the map a bit and you can see the freeway coming out the other side.
Thanks Syrus! This was the IKEA I want to post.
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Here is New Haven’s IKEA, still under construction, but open for a year. It’s currently the only IKEA in New England.
only 25?
The IKEA in Phoenix just opened last December right here:
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But the picture was obviously taken some time before construction started.
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We’ve got two of them in Prague, but both are out of hi-res area. Glad to hear I’m not the only one who’s got more than half of furniture from them…
The 1 year-old IKEA in Minneapolis is built directly between the airport and the Mall of America at the site of the old Metropolitan Sports Center (home of the Northstars NHL team – later traded to Texas). Just cement in Placemark: Google Earth.
The IKEA in Burlington (Ontario, Canada). only 5minute walk from my place!
It’s the big one on the right, closest to the highway. no type on the roof though…
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One Ikea in Espoo, Finland
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and another in Vantaa, Finland
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I think this IKEA in Stockholm, Sweden was the first “big” store in Sweden built in 1965 (the one in Älhult was the first built in 1953). Unfortunately the satellite picture is not in high resolution. It’s the round building in the middle. The place is full of other big stores and is called Kungens Kurva (=The king’s curve) because the former King of Sweden Gustaf V crasched with his car here in 1946.
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IKEA at Slependen right outside Oslo, the capital of Norway:
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One in Sevilla still under construction
The french IKEA mentionned in the initial post is actually near a very small airfield:
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Near the french IKEA mentionned (which is about 30 km from Paris)
is actually a small airfield:
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