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Apple Campus 2 'Theatre' Features Largest Freestanding Carbon-Fiber Roof Ever Made
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Okay, I wont' call it a UFO.
I'll call it a scout ship for the main mothership.
Captain's yacht? Captain Cook can use it to escape if the rest of the campus is under heavy enemy fire.
Its nice to see that the 16GB iPhone is paying off for them, thanks Apple. Its all for the customers right?
Well, it's large enough to be a "Pro." However, speaking only for myself, it's simply "too thick" to be a "Pro Roof."
While I agree in general that the metric system is a better one, I'm not really sure what would be better about it when it comes to those descriptions of sizes.
Kind of funny in american football its all yards until you get to the 1 foot line, LOL.
Apple re-modelled the interior for the event to reduce the seat number to about 3000 and added a suite of product demonstration rooms in the saved space. There also were less than a thousand invited guests, the rest was filled with employees.
Note that the room at Moscone West they use for WWDC also holds in the order of 3000 people (most of them developers). But building facilities for a single yearly event makes little sense (for WWDC, on top of the 3000-seat hall, they would need many classrooms for the individual sessions.
Which company has on-site auditoria that can hold all or even a third of its campus employees? Microsoft rented a sports stadium for the farewell address of Steve Balmer.
I am not a construction guy or math guru, so maybe someone here can enlighten me:
1) How thick does the glass have to be to support 80 tons?
2) On the theatre and the main building, how are the panels of the glass bonded to each other?
1) How thick does the glass have to be to support 80 tons?
2) On the theatre and the main building, how are the panels of the glass bonded to each other?
I wonder what is correct then. If you're correct then yes it's a very weird ratio, especially since as I was to understand it all if their large announcement, with exception to WWDC, would be held here.
Such obscene and wretched excess.
Yet it's obvious now why Steve Jobs failed to be a dignified and generous philanthropist.
His narcissism and sheer greed reveals volumes about who he was.
They had to go CF and moderate the diameter to stay within existing crane capacity. That's the problem with radical building design. Infrastructure limits.
So they went hard core on glass sheets and install equipment, all custom made.
Now they have the industrial capacity to build 10 more buildings of this style.
Ireland? Cincinnati? It's okay to have wide canopies along the building for rain protection.
So they went hard core on glass sheets and install equipment, all custom made.
Now they have the industrial capacity to build 10 more buildings of this style.
Ireland? Cincinnati? It's okay to have wide canopies along the building for rain protection.
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What if you need to subdivide? Then it's 144 square inches to a square foot, and to a square yard there are nine(!) square feet. At least that's what Google tells me. Anyway, it's not a big deal, just trying to be merry.
But is it THIN !!!
Apple's progress on its second campus has been tracked by drone videos and ongoing construction updates, but the company recently gave Mashable details on the new location, sharing impressive photos and inside information on the main ring-shaped structure and surrounding buildings like the auditorium.
As we know, Apple's new campus features massive curved glass windows to give the building an open feel. Outfitting the campus in curved glass requires 3,000 panels, each of which is 46 feet long and 10.5 feet wide, and getting those panels into place required Apple to build custom machines it calls "Manipulators."
Mashable got a first look at the "Theatre," the 120,000 square-foot underground auditorium where Apple will host future events. Designed to seat 1,000 people, the Theatre lobby is made of glass that offers 360-degree views of the campus with stairs down to the event area. According to Apple, the roof is the most impressive part of the auditorium. It weighs 80 tons and was assembled in Dubai before being shipped in pieces to California.
Apple Campus 2 Theatre
There are many unique elements included in Apple's second campus, and a 60,000 square-foot restaurant inside the ring-shaped building is no exception. Designed to house 2,800 employees inside and 1,200 on an outside patio, the restaurant will feature two glass doors that are four stories high.
Apple Campus 2 Theatre roof
Apple expects construction on its campus to be finished at the end of 2016, which is right on schedule. Tim Cook said in a past interview that employees will begin moving into the building in January of 2017.
The full set of photos from Apple Campus 2 are available over at Mashable and are worth checking out for those interested in a close-up look at the new campus.
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Or will it BBQ the inhabitants like an iMac trying to run HD on a 5K screen ????
Well, it's large enough to be a "Pro." However, speaking only for myself, it's simply "too thick" to be a "Pro Roof."
Thick, maybe, but it's Apple's thinnest roof ever!
Steve Jobs had already passed away when Tim Cook announced Apple was going ahead with the complex AS Steve Jobs intended. So you'll need to pass your ire onto TC.
The building may have some unique features but it is LEED Platinum. An architect and client has to make a lot of tough choices to get to that level. Whether its excess perhaps depends on one's priorities. But there is much to say that a companies building is both "face" and "heart" of that company. Customers need to be awed, employees need to exhilarated every day, vendor bravado needs to be attenuated. A building is more than just the walls and roof.
The crane used (as visible in the image) is far from the biggest crane available.
