If you stop confusing the bolded part with science, you'll have a chance of getting what folks are referring to here.
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What Apple's and Google's Headquarters Plans Reveal About Their Cultures
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If you stop confusing the bolded part with science, you'll have a chance of getting what folks are referring to here.
I look at Apple's facility and can't help thinking maybe those "Ancient Astronaut Theorists" are on to something.
My apologies. Obviously you understand architecture better than I do. I can see now that you've made quite study of it.
Your apology is accepted (and indeed, there is tons to apologize for... ). Yes, I actually do know, and work with architects all the time -- Having to deal with their artsy fartsy flako social construct oriented view of the world, and try and actualize it into something that functions in the actual physical world is how I make my living.
SCIENCE -- Google it!
(Phrenology is is but one good example of " THE PROBLEM")
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Then stick to the unfettered cranking out of prose -- Why bother it's pretending to be anything else? (other than to make yourself feel good, of course --- what higher purpose could there be?)
Actually, "How I feel about this building rendered through interpretive dance" would be much more honest than prose. Words ... can easily be confused with an actual rigorous intellectual attempt at connection with the subject matter.
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I can't say that I either like or dislike Google's campus aesthetic, tho it looks very typical of any other 'corporate' campus. It could very well be IBM or Ford's or WalMart's HQ.
I do know that Samsung's future campus HQ will also look like a circular spaceship. But it will be bigger (i.e. Mothership). And have more buttons.
I do know that Samsung's future campus HQ will also look like a circular spaceship. But it will be bigger (i.e. Mothership). And have more buttons.
Or...
The Apple campus looks and functions like a hamster wheel (a nice looking one that is). It's moving and doing things, but really, not moving forward.
The Google campus looks like they're not about not being boring and trying new things. There's more shapes besides a triangle, square or this case a circle.
Yes, monolithic Stalinist style.
Probably what KGB headquarters would look like if built today.
The Google campus is a free flowing variety of structures with
human space between buildings and a variety of interesting shapes.
One is totalitarian butt ugly and the other has an open and playful look.
The one looks like a structure for the drones in the 1984 commercial,
the other could be the setting for the uplifting 'I'd like to teach the world to sing' anthem.
The Cupertino campus could be stood on it's side with the eye of Sauron in it.
and be the perfect expression of the mentality of the corporation occupying it.
And that's a bad thing because??? I've worked in several overcrowded, boxy buildings where all you see are partitions of dividers and booths; completely soul-destroying places that fortunately I won't have to revisit. The interior of Google's buildings have the potential to be just that.
Apple's design provides a much higher surface area to volume ratio, meaning it will feel more spatious and less crowded with more connection to the outside and more natural light. These are very important things in ensuring the health, happiness and therefore productivity and ingenuity of workers.
Even if they do try to cram too many people inside, the design retains a vast and spatious interior courtyard and exterior gardens and woods for people to get out of the office and relax. I don't know about anyone else, but for me it's at these times where sparks of ingenuity are most common. Google's campus provides no such large and open areas.
Yes. seamless curved glass made into windows that's not openable. That's "controlled openness", kind of like the App store.
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Or maybe google is moving in so many directions it doesn't know where to go.
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Maybe apple will give you a new view on circular architecture.
So who's the ultimate example?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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I dunno. I like to think the ole Soviets would stick to Brutalist style no matter what the year.
