This campus is going to be epic. It will be in architecture and design text books for years. I wonder if Apple would ever be so generous as to let us take a peak in the form of a tour? That'd be pretty cool. Not likely, but cool.
The Foxconn factories are Foxconn facilities. Apple is just a customer.
Most big factories in Asia keep their staff in cheap housing and bus them to and from the job.
I'll bet the staff making the Apple products are treated better than most.
Am I the only one who actually reads the articles?
http://archrecord.construction.com/features/2014/1403-Asking-Mr-Big-Norman-Foster.asp
London square enclosing park. Stanford campus quadrangle. Circular building enclosing "private space." So it appears I am wrong on no points. You didn't even attempt to address any of the others I made in any case, so your argument that I was wrong on all points is... wrong on all points.
This campus is going to be epic. It will be in architecture and design text books for years. I wonder if Apple would ever be so generous as to let us take a peak in the form of a tour? That'd be pretty cool. Not likely, but cool.
You didn't think that through did you? For that to be true every point A and every point B has to be located near a door. Your math doesn't account for multiple floors. Also yo... you didn't think this through did you?
". . . these studies finally morphed into a circular building . . ."
That's Norman Foster telling you that they did not start out with Steve's preconcieved idea for a circular building.
Your other points are based on a confusion between an ordinary office building which must fit into a public space, and this building, which is designed for Apple employees who need to be associating with each other away from the public. You are trying to apply rules to this building which do not apply, and so I don't find your points worth discussing, really.
On your side, there are architechture critics who agree with you, but they are similarly confused. Wouldn't be the first time critics get things very wrong.
That new campus apparently "spans more than a mile around"; imagine stretching that out into a rectangular building of similar width, and then having to go from one end to the other?
Haha right. I wouldn't deem such an idea impossible on their part. It would be very rudimentary and would just take us through basic day-to-day operations. Obviously we wouldn't see Jony Ive's top secret design lab or anything, but just some "ooh' and "ah" stuff.I'm willing to go through X-ray security scanner, if that's what it takes to be allowed a non-employee tour.
Haha right. I wouldn't deem such an idea impossible on their part. It would be very rudimentary and would just take us through basic day-to-day operations. Obviously we wouldn't see Jony Ive's top secret design lab or anything, but just some "ooh' and "ah" stuff.
I hope the update Maps with a high detail satalite image once complete
This is true. But even the White House has tours... the White House. And that's national security at stake there. So it's kind of funny that that big corporations wouldn't let you get a little sneak peak at their campus. Although, now that I think about, I believe Google does something to that effect. You don't get to go spelunking into the bowels of their secrecy, just the cool layer on top.Actually, I will bet good money that Apple's rivals like Samsung have every intention of trying to infiltrate the deepest bowels (restricted areas) of the Apple Mothership Campus. Corporate espionage has been going on for ages.
This is true. But even the White House has tours... the White House. And that's national security at stake there. So it's kind of funny that that big corporations wouldn't let you get a little sneak peak at their campus.
First of all, I was not one of the people that ever said (here) that big corporations do not allow non-employees to tour or enter their campuses. In fact, that's an outright lie if anyone has said that on this thread. Apple in the current 1 Infinite Loop campus does allow people to enter the campus and allows them access to limited areas of the campus. Areas that are "allowed" include the Apple Company Store. See link and screenshot below.
You seem to be taking my replies as arguments. And if that's true, I apologize. I agree with you completely. I'm just offering up various speculations.First of all, I was not one of the people that ever said (here) that big corporations do not allow non-employees to tour or enter their campuses. In fact, that's an outright lie if anyone has said that on this thread. Apple in the current 1 Infinite Loop campus does allow people to enter the campus and allows them access to limited areas of the campus. Areas that are "allowed" include the Apple Company Store. See link and screenshot below.
http://www.apple.com/companystore/
Welcome to the Apple Company Store
The Company Store is the original Apple Employee store located at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino. We are open to the public, but we are a little different than your local Apple Retail Store. While we don't sell computers, iPhones or have a Genius Bar, we are the only place in the world that sells Apple logo t-shirts, caps and accessories. So, if you find yourself in the San Francisco Bay Area, please stop by and visit us.
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Anyways, this discussion was just speculating that the NEW Alien Mothership campus, which people are marveling as an architectural work of art, might have much more strict access and security. That's only a guess. No one knows for sure at this time.