Apple and 49ers get a new stadium by 2015?!
The problem with round buildings is you can't simply put a rectangular shaped object flat against the wall, thus wasting a lot of space. Also what if I need to get to the opposite end of the building but it is raining out so I can't walk through the court yard? I have to walk all the way around the building!
While it sure does look wonderful I would say it is very much form over function.
Hmmm, I'm sure they've thought of this, but how would all that glass react to a sizable earthquake? I mean, this IS California we're talking about.
The problem with round buildings is you can't simply put a rectangular shaped object flat against the wall, thus wasting a lot of space.
While it sure does look wonderful I would say it is very much form over function.
This could easily be the next wonder of the world. I would love to see this building in person!
I'm going to feel bad for 1 Infinite Loop, though. Poor baby..it's going to be overshadowed by the new HQ.
The problem with round buildings is you can't simply put a rectangular shaped object flat against the wall, thus wasting a lot of space. Also what if I need to get to the opposite end of the building but it is raining out so I can't walk through the court yard? I have to walk all the way around the building!
While it sure does look wonderful I would say it is very much form over function.
First of all the rooms inside don't have to be totally round, they can have flat walls and a rounded window. As for the weather, it rains very little in cupertino, so i doubt this is much of a concern. It's SoCal. Won't kill people to take a walk around the building a couple of time a year.
Cupertino isn't in Southern California. It's in Northern California, which gets a bit more annual rainfall than SoCal. Cupertino averages 18 inches of rain annually.
Where do they manufacture glass?
The problem with round buildings is you can't simply put a rectangular shaped object flat against the wall, thus wasting a lot of space.
2. Am I the only one who thinks building this in California, an increasingly terrible state for taxes (and a lot of other business related things) is not the best idea? I guess this generation of Tech czars are just too liberal and have so much money that they can afford to cost themselves (and the company) money because they want to stay in beautiful Northern California where all the rest of the cool liberal visionaries live. Maybe 30 years from now when more pragmatic people are running Google, eBay, Apple and Oracle they will think about locating the business headquarters in Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida etc, etc, etc. I guess now they're just making too much money to care about a few billion every year needlessly lost to the welfare state of California.
Suck it up bro. Maybe they don't want to be surrounded by dumb rednecks who do whatever fox news tells them to. Btw way to turn the thread political. Designed by Apple in Kentucky Y'all...doesn't quite have a ring to it.
That thing has antigravity boosters that will fly into space. Because Apple's secretly building a UFO to put the first retail store on Mars.
After all, it IS the mothership