Apple Campus 2 Drone Video Shows Nearly Complete Main Building and Landscape Updates

[Vjosullivan]

The real question is why isn't this being built in China where all the real work is done.

 

[vpro]

How do I enroll?

 

[C DM]

OfMost every company has their key corporate employees grouped together in a headquarters campus, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc. You can't efficiently run a company without grouping together key groups. That said, Apple wouldn't be down in one single attack, as there are no likely terrorist scenarios that would destroy the entire campus and its multiple buildings, and Apple has tens of thousands of employees in other campuses throughout the world.

And even bigger (than currently existing) campuses too it seems: http://fortune.com/2016/09/01/apple-austin-campus/

Would make a nice shopping mall.

That's about to be re-built across the street essentially.

 

[daveak]

Yes, nevertheless, they won't recall all the iphones with the touch disease problem. That's greed my friend.

They don't need to recall any in the EU, they are all still under warranty.

 

[abhibeckert]

And even bigger campuses too it seems: http://fortune.com/2016/09/01/apple-austin-campus/

Huh? They only have 500 people in Austin. This campus will have 13,000 people.

 

[C DM]

Huh? They only have 500 people in Austin. This campus will have 13,000 people.

Bigger than the currently existing campuses in size. And certainly with quite a few more than 500 people there.

 

[0110076]

Because it's Earth's home button

Oh man that cracked me up ahah

 

[Zirel]

But many, or most, of the USB peripherals used with the MacBook are USB 3.0. Not daisy chainable. Plenty fast for all sorts of uses.

And of course someone may want to use a USB peripheral with their MacBook while it's charging. That's a rather basic laptop feature, don't you think?

It's made for the future, not for the past.

USB 3.1 is not a question of fastness.

 

[RightMACatU]

Underground auditorium... brought to you by: Minecraft.

 

[morningsong]

Are the Samsung guys done wiring up all the bugs?

 

[CFreymarc]

No corner offices to fight over.
[doublepost=1473103266][/doublepost]

Are the Samsung guys done wiring up all the bugs?

There are regular electronic sweeps with imaging radar done daily across the entire construction process looking for eavesdropping devices or other devices that are not part of the plan. Supposedly a few were pulled out of the foundation pours and handed over to the Feds for investigation.

 

[Sill]

Most people will simply be placed near other people they need to access. For that reason, walking will be by far the thing most people use. Exception probably to getting to the parking lot, which in the morning will have one hell of a foot traffic so I'd expect some shuttles to the main building.

For some reason that makes me think of one certain scene in the Michael Douglas movie "Black Rain". He was walking across a bridge to a factory, I think, and suddenly all the commuters came across the bridge in a flurry of hundreds of bicycles, motor scooters, and large trucks, nearly running him over.

 

[bbeagle]

Add to this, the building will look fundamentally the same from every view angle. This will produce a great deal of disorientation to the decision making process on how to best get from there to here.

Most buildings look 'fundamentally the same' from every view angle. It's the signage, wall banners, artwork on windows, landscaping, etc. which make different entry points in a building look different.

I'm sure after a week in the building, you'll be able to tell where you are in the building.

It's a building. Geez. I'm amazed at all the people trying as hard as they can to find fault with it before it's even open.

 

[IJ Reilly]

Most buildings look 'fundamentally the same' from every view angle. It's the signage, wall banners, artwork on windows, landscaping, etc. which make different entry points in a building look different.

I'm sure after a week in the building, you'll be able to tell where you are in the building.

It's a building. Geez. I'm amazed at all the people trying as hard as they can to find fault with it before it's even open.

Actually, no, they don't, unless every elevation is designed to be identical, which is rarely the case (and for good reason). Take a walk around some time with your attention focused on how buildings look from different viewpoints and you willl quickly see that architecture is a great deal about communicating orientation and paths of movement. It's about telling you where you are and how you get to where you want to go. If it takes a week of living with a building before you become fundamentally oriented, then the architecture is not succeeding in one of its most basic tasks. These concepts have been understood for centuries, and scads of literature has been generated on the subject. I am introducing you to it, not inventing it. If you are expecting me to apologize for knowing something about this, and caring about it, then sorry.

 

[bbeagle]

Actually, no, they don't, unless every elevation is designed to be identical, which is rarely the case (and for good reason). Take a walk around some time with your attention focused on how buildings look from different viewpoints and you willl quickly see that architecture is a great deal about communicating orientation and paths of movement. It's about telling you where you are and how you get to where you want to go. If it takes a week of living with a building before you become fundamentally oriented, then the architecture is not succeeding in one of its most basic tasks. These concepts have been understood for centuries, and scads of literature has been generated on the subject. I am introducing you to it, not inventing it. If you are expecting me to apologize for knowing something about this, and caring about it, then sorry.

Maybe you live where buildings are architecturally wonderful, but where I live, buildings are like this. There is no 'front' or 'side' of this building. It's just a generic building, so are all the others around it.

 

[IJ Reilly]

Maybe you live where buildings are architecturally wonderful, but where I live, buildings are like this. There is no 'front' or 'side' of this building. It's just a generic building, so are all the others around it.

That building does have a front and side. The very fact that the two elevations are not the same width (three bays on one street vs. nine on the other), and it has a corner that causes the perspective to change, cues your brain to where you are on the street as you walk past it, even if you aren't thinking about how that works. The variation of storefronts and entries at street level also provide cues. As you walk along that street the differences in the heights, widths, window patterns, colors, and materials of buildings on the block, all supply orientation information. Again this is happening whether you are conscious of it or not. Take away all these visual orientation cues and now you have a building that demands that either that people "get used to it" (architecture: fail) or the architect to employ devices to compensate for the absence of architectural cues. Probably the Norman Foster group will have to do a lot of the latter with the Apple Campus building or people will become lost, because (unlike most buildings) from the outside at least, it does look exactly the same from every angle. It does not help that it is also immense so if you turn right when you should have turned left you could be walking for a long time before you figure it out.

Architectural wonder is not required. Often enough, architectural wonder is the enemy of functional architecture.