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Late last year it was revealed that Apple purchased a 98-acre campus from Hewlett Packard, just up I-280 in Cupertino. Last night, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, in trademark black turtleneck and jeans, explained Apple's plans for the space to the Cupertino City Council. Here's what the new 4-story building holding 12,000 employees will look like when it's completed in 2015:


As Steve describes it:
It's a pretty amazing building. It's a little like a spaceship landed. It's got this gorgeous courtyard in the middle... It's a circle. It's curved all the way around. If you build things, this is not the cheapest way to build something. There is not a straight piece of glass in this building. It's all curved. We've used our experience making retail buildings all over the world now, and we know how to make the biggest pieces of glass in the world for architectural use. And, we want to make the glass specifically for this building here. We can make it curve all the way around the building... It's pretty cool.
The facility will be 80% landscaping, with most of the parking underground, compared to 20% landscaping with all above ground parking currently. The current campus has 3,700 trees and Apple plans to increase that to more than 6,000 trees, including "some apricot orchards."

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Apple also plans to build its own energy generation facility using natural gas, with the electricity grid as a backup.

One of the city councilors asked what the citizens of Cupertino would get from the new campus, and in particular brought up a free Wi-Fi network, like Google offers in Mountain View. Steve responded that Apple was the largest taxpayer in Cupertino and he felt that the tax benefits to having a company like Apple in Cupertino was benefit enough and the city should be providing a service like that.

"If we can get out of paying taxes, we would be glad to provide free Wi-Fi."


Article Link: Steve Jobs Pitches Cupertino on Stunning New Apple Campus
 

boss.king

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That looks freaking amazing. Wonder what the price tag is for a place like that...
 

aznkid25

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That design looks awesome. SJ in his signature black turtleneck. It does sound like a bit weak though.
 

Hueyfreeman

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Natural gas? Go with Solar even better for the environment at only 4x the cost. ;)

Also Sterling Archer said he wants his turtle neck back.
 

commander.data

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So is this going to replace the existing campus, the old one goes up for sale, or just supplement it, by being the new headquarters with the old one repurposed as a satellite campus?
 

ziggyonice

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If I remember correctly, I read somewhere that they're even building an underground, high-speed subway to connect the two campuses together.

Incredible.

EDIT: Found the source (Cult of Mac).
Apple intends on using the 100 acres of land they purchased for $300 million from HP last month to build a partially domed, green-friendly campus with an intensive subterranean road and transportation network
 

sparkie7

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holeee guacamoleee! :D that will be amazing grace when its built. imagine they will grow organic tomatoes and beans+ to make vegetarian burgers on site
 

vertgo

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Nice try, City Councilor

Good luck trying to negotiate with Steve Jobs if you're in Cupertino. I mean, shouldn't he have stacked the city council by now with all iDrones? How much of the city's population is Apple employees?
 

bitsoda

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I love how Steve knows he's the smartest person in the room as he assures the city councilman that he has no need for using their third-rate touchscreen drawing technology.

"I don't need to draw on the screen; you can see it clearly." - SJ
 
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OriginalMacRat

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Natural gas? Go with Solar even better for the environment at only 4x the cost. ;)

They should do a combination of solutions.

All that roof space would be good for the solar panels and all that land would be good for a few windmill generators as well.
 

Axemantitan

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we know how to make the biggest pieces of glass in the world for architectural use. And, we want to make the glass specifically for this building here. We can make it curve all the way around the building... It's pretty cool.

Is it all one giant window stretching all the way around the building?
 

aznkid25

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Mayor tries to get Jobs to build an Apple Store in Cupertino, showing him how much he loves his ipad.
 
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