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Cupertino.org Posts More Details about Apple's New 'Spaceship' Campus

JohnnyLemonhead said:
1. Am I the only one who thinks this structure smacks of the Pentagon, both in looks and in philosophy? I know this is round and the Pentagon is, well, a pentagon, but the big building with a giant hollow center is very Pentagon-ish. Plus they look like they will be roughly the same size.
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.
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Yeah, then they can all start screwing their cousins and living in trailers.
Teabag away, baby. :p

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diego said:
As an urban planning student specializing in urban design, I can say that this campus is a typical example of the theory of Landscape Urbanism. You can find out more about it on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_urbanism)... but it basically means that landscape is the most important aspect of urbanism. As an urban planner, I think that landscape urbanism is not the best answer to urban growth mainly because it promotes sprawl but disguised in a more beautiful and 'sustainable' way. Huge 'natural' landscape buffers are one of its elements, which are obviously present in this project, but they end up isolating uses and people. If anyone is interested in a thorough description and criticism of landscape urbanism, check out this conference by Andres Duany, who is one of the precursors of New Urbanism: http://ecom.mediasite.com/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=470632346283426e8b0dfa1b184afd7b1d

If anyone wants to talk more about this feel free to contact me.
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I think you need to lookup the term "corporate campus".
 
deconstruct60 said:
No, under about 4-5 roofs. Infinite loop will still be used. Likewise, the leased buildings within very short walking distance of Infinite loop will also likely not be let go. Stuff farther away and/or less suitable will get let go.
[ Likewise the site plan shows about 4-5 research buildings. Probably moving the antenna and some of the other large bulky labs closer to one another. ]

Actually not a good idea to put everybody in one single building.
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I know Infinite Loop will still be used.

I guess I should have said "those other 12,000 people will soon be under the new roof"

:)
 
carlgo said:
The more I see of this thing the less I like it.

It is not an ergo-building.

It is not an eco-building.

It is an ego-building.

Looks like an iFort to hold off the unemployed masses.

Made of the worst possible building material.

No solar? What?

Looks like something out of a 1938 issue of Popular Science. Oooooh, round buildings (imagine a Homer voice like in oooh, donuts).

A stupid, sterile, inefficient, overly expensive, unattractive building evidently conceived by someone who thought he could design buildings, but can't. All the underlings are probably all in a circle around him fumbling over themselves in congratulations. Somebody at Apple needs to be an adult and be brave and stand up to this crap. Or, maybe the board of directors get paid to be smart and useful?

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You are assuming that an actual architect conceived this thing. Jobs is only hiring a firm to do the details, a job he considers functionary and not worthy of mention.
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You don't know **** about this building.
You don't visually like what you've seen in the pictures? That's fair.
Anything else you have to say about it is your own self deluded ********.
 
AwakenedLands said:
Good to see Apple's cash reserves are being spent on important things. No extravagance there.
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If I were you I'd get busy criticizing *everyone else* first - the Acers, Dells, Microsofts, RIMs of the industry, who are quite busy pouring money into failed products that leave the poor users (suckers) who buy them in the lurch. Repeatedly. Waste upon waste.

If you want efficiency and getting the most out of every dollar from a corporate/R&D perspective, look no further than Apple.

It's nice to see a well-run, successful corporation in the US (there are fewer and fewer these days) WITH NO DEBT, spend money on nice architecture.
 
AppleScruff1 said:
I meant where does Apple manufacture glass. Steve made this statement according to the article: " We've used our experience making retail buildings all over the world now, and we know how to make the biggest pieces of glass in the world for architectural use. And, we want to make the glass specifically for this building here. We can make it curve all the way around the building... It's pretty cool."

Or does he mean that Apple engineers are glass experts and know how to design and manufacture glass? He's implying that no one else knows how to make pieces of glass as big as Apple does for architectural use.
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Seele GmbH Gersthofen, Germany
 
Apples

Has anyone else noticed that the trees are Apple trees. Some even have apples on them. Haha. :apple:
 
JohnnyLemonhead said:
1. Am I the only one who thinks this structure smacks of the Pentagon, both in looks and in philosophy? I know this is round and the Pentagon is, well, a pentagon, but the big building with a giant hollow center is very Pentagon-ish. Plus they look like they will be roughly the same size.
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.
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Yes, because we all know how easy it will be to attract the best talent in the world to work in Kentucky.

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the8thark said:
I love to be one of the chefs there in the cafeteria feeling all those Apple employees. That would just be one of the most awesome jobs ever. I'm make sure they all ate the best food ever.
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That's one of the best Freudian slips in Macrumors history!
 
reallynotnick said:
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.
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Hmmmm, what makes you think they will just be using regular rectangle desks and bookshelves? I'm sure they'll use customized office furniture to maximize all spaces. :rolleyes:
 
JohnnyLemonhead said:
1. Am I the only one who thinks this structure smacks of the Pentagon, both in looks and in philosophy? I know this is round and the Pentagon is, well, a pentagon, but the big building with a giant hollow center is very Pentagon-ish. Plus they look like they will be roughly the same size.
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.
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Yes, you are the only one who thinks being in California is a bad idea. Most of us who live in CA would not want to live in any of those states you mentioned. Apple realizes to attract the best talent and to really have those creative juices flowing you have to live in a place that promotes those ideas and a lifestyle that people enjoy -- you know us cool liberal visionaries.:)
 
JohnnyLemonhead said:
1. Am I the only one who thinks this structure smacks of the Pentagon, both in looks and in philosophy? I know this is round and the Pentagon is, well, a pentagon, but the big building with a giant hollow center is very Pentagon-ish. Plus they look like they will be roughly the same size.
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.
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Cali = Silicon Valley. THE birthplace of pretty much all the stuff you're using today to make self-righteous posts.

Where else would Apple build it?? All the talent is there.
 
likemyorbs said:
TBH, i think they need to work with the city to have the address of this building changed to 1 Infinite Loop, because obviously this is the real infinite loop. The address of the old headquarters should be changed to something else.
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Agreed. I think they should just build two of them in an infinity symbol.

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arcite said:
Hmmmm, what makes you think they will just be using regular rectangle desks and bookshelves? I'm sure they'll use customized office furniture to maximize all spaces. :rolleyes:
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Not to mention in a round building you can have something inside it called rooms, which can be any shape you want, including square!
 
vernotico said:
Has anyone else noticed that the trees are Apple trees. Some even have apples on them. Haha. :apple:
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They're apricot trees, the site once held a great deal of apricot trees and apple plans to replant them. It would have been cool if they were apple trees though :p (though I loves me some apricots!)
 
*LTD* said:
Good point. it looks very organic, and not like some dark, dank, concrete monstrosity.

It looks typical of Apple, which is a good thing. I'd call the entire building "user-oriented." Much like Apple's main priority. As within, so without, etc.
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Actually, it's typical Steve. NeXT Headquarters and PIXAR headquarters are very airy with lots of glass to see the conference rooms, etc. If you've ever worked inside 1 Infinite Loop, a lot of the rooms have no windows. It was a step down, personally, when we merged coming from NeXT.
 
deconstruct60 said:
I'm not sure Apple would want to bring 700+ visitors to their campus on a work day. It isn't like there are going to be 700+ empty parking places set aside for "press conference" days. An extra 200, sure.
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From Jobs' presentation and the current plans, it appears that's what they're planning to do.

Directly from him:

"We’ve got an auditorium, cause we put on presentations, much like we did yesterday but we have to go to San Francisco to do them."

He was referring to his keynote at WWDC at Moscone the day before.
 
warschauer said:
That's one of the best Freudian slips in Macrumors history!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip
"A Freudian slip, also called parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is interpreted as occurring due to the interference of some unconscious ("dynamically repressed") wish, conflict, or train of thought. The concept is thus part of classical psychoanalysis."

It seems your intent to make a good post was interfered with a subconscious urge to make a really dumb post. And yes it was dumb. So it seems you Freudian slip too. And a real doozer.
 
That thing will confuse the aliens. They might invade fearing we're building a mothership to fight them with. :D
 
So boring... Ring of the Lord, ha ha.

1. Must be in a shape of Apple Logo
2. Must be 25 bigger to be clearly visible from space.

At least they could try to make surrounding landscape in a shape of an Apple logo.
 
likemyorbs said:
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.

And PS...
Apple IS a liberal corporation, always has been and always will be. And their roots are in Cupertino because that's where steve jobs grew up. He went to Cupertino Middle School for god's sake.
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Who wants an iPhone, a Mac or an iPod that only turns left? :D
 
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