There is a loading ramp and tunnel leading to the back of the auditorium (look at page 18 here). Whether that just leads to the street level on the eastern edge of the campus or whether it has an underground connection to the visitors' centre at the eastern edge of the main building, I am not sure.
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New Apple Park Drone Video Shows Off Steve Jobs Theater as Lobby Lights Up
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At least they save on energy costs with 100% renewable energy. Maintenance and cleaning will be a bit though.
If you go back to the first fly overs you'll see there is no tunnels between the two. There is a back stage entry ramp which trucks can drive down. I'm sure this is also an emergency exit as well as a few other emergency stairwells & elevator that are near the glass lobby.
Less massive than renting the same space all over the valley, which they already are.
Building something like that if anything could be a money saver in the long run.
Also, Jobs and the people at Apple conceived this building when they were 1/5 the size they are now (in 2009-2010), if anything this building is UNDERSIZED for Apple's current size and ambition.
Sorry, but it's not overpriced if you actually agreed to pay the price. It's just "heavily marked up". : )
Edit: killed an accidental emoji. Does anyone know a way to avoid conversion of Good Old ASCII Smileys into Retarded Emoji?
I think that naming it the Steve Jobs Building would tie it permanently to the past. This way there's a sense that Apple can be great without Jobs.
I can't wait for them to make an Apple TV screensaver out of this...!
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Judging by the speed I'd assume it was from a plane.
I am glad to see someone that gets it.
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Thank you...couldn't have said it better.
I do hoper that discovery have made a film of this being made. But knowing Apple I doubt it.
We don't have many massive round buildings built these days.
I wonder how much of its power will come from all those solar panels? Love seeing the roof covered in them.
We don't have many massive round buildings built these days.
I wonder how much of its power will come from all those solar panels? Love seeing the roof covered in them.
This has got to be exciting for all the employees. I had a dream about showing up for the first day at the ring, and being gobsmacked with the enormity of the endeavor.
But in reality, I was employed at a company that went through a long and arduous re-engineering of their work environment, and remember the day that we all showed up to 'claim our space'. Walking around and seeing it all completed was an awesome experience. All the thought that went into the areas for the different groups, and where everything was going to end up. It took a few weeks for the monotony to return, but the time until that happened was amazing. Also amazing was how many people started sniping about who had the better office/view/table/etc.
*sigh*
But in reality, I was employed at a company that went through a long and arduous re-engineering of their work environment, and remember the day that we all showed up to 'claim our space'. Walking around and seeing it all completed was an awesome experience. All the thought that went into the areas for the different groups, and where everything was going to end up. It took a few weeks for the monotony to return, but the time until that happened was amazing. Also amazing was how many people started sniping about who had the better office/view/table/etc.
*sigh*
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True story or your dream?
Ain't people funny. They don't give a **** about your fancy building, what you call your theatres, what your strategy is, what's keeping the CEO up at night, and so on. They only care about what's important to them. There is something there for leaders to take away. But I don't know what it is. Lolz.
Very impressive. I wonder how many technologies have been advanced by its construction.
Coming soon - Samsung Park. Similar design but not as good. Just hope nothing catches fire.
Coming soon - Samsung Park. Similar design but not as good. Just hope nothing catches fire.
No one would ever bother to call it the "Jobs Building". In contrast, people will be constantly instructed to go to the "Jobs Theater."
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It must have been worth it to you.
I get all that, and it's true. If you have a source for his preference not to have the building named after him, I'd be interested. I'm also aware that the theater is much bigger than the above ground structure.
It just feels to me that naming anything other then the most iconic building after Steve Jobs understates his role as synonymous with the company he built. Kind of like naming the famous Chicago skyscraper The 33 South Wacker Drive Building, and the lobby after Sears (or Willis). I'm sure I'm being sentimental.
It's next to a freeway, the parking garage entrance is right off the freeway, and there used to be a big HP campus just there. Don't think it will be that bad.
The Steve Jobs Theater is a beautiful piece of architecture. Are there any drawings or artists impressions of the levels below ground?
i hope fireworks will light up the sky when this thing finally opens its doors.
Where do most of the employees live? I don't know how anyone can afford to live anywhere close to campus.
The first short paragraph was my dream, and the second longer paragraph was my experience.
The department went through 'empowerment training', and had an agreement with management that the 'teams' would have 'power', only to have it yanked away from the team I was on so that management could install a person they wanted for an opening. Yeah, there was a 'message'. The more things change, the more they stay the same. I didn't expect the halcyon days of the grand opening to last forever, but I was surprised how short the honeymoon was. But the 'office politics', you could cut with a knife. Case in point, pre-remodel I got an office with a window, and had to have a cubicle wall put up to block it so that I couldn't look out of it from my desk. Really... I had to give up reading Dilbert because one of his episodes was nearly the same thing... When the nutty BS hits that close to home, you gotta stop...
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Engineers and many others that work there are paid 120K and up (many over 160K), then can afford it.
It is the support staff that cannot live near there, they'll live way down the valley or 60+ miles away towards the central valley.