New Model Offers Detailed Look at Apple's Upcoming 'Spaceship' Campus [Updated]

[JPLC]

Great that this is coming.

Last piece of Sculley in this company to say goodbeye. Another step forward moving way from this dark page.

 

[CFreymarc]

I just threw up in my mouth a little.....

Dodgeball was a good movie.

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Apple also has made it clear in the past couple of years that they want their employees to stick around campus for lunch, instead of leaving to patronize local restaurants.

So yes and no. HP used to be the major employer in town, and they left. So Cupertino is wary of being dependent on any single company.

The Duke across the street from the new campus is expecting their business to triple when the new campus comes on-line. Keep in mind, we are talking over 10,000 employees. Not all of them are brown baggers keeping every scrap they can to make a local mortgage payment.

 

[tbrinkma]

I didn't say any of those things. It's easy to set up straw man arguments and knock them down, isn't it?

I'd advocate for typical high-end building standards, which is a very different thing than cost cutting that goes on forever.

"Typical" building standards aren't high-end. "High-end" building standards aren't typical.

Creating a building with features which haven't been done before (or haven't been done on that scale before) means you don't get to use 'typical' standards, because they don't exist yet.

And, as someone else pointed out earlier in the thread, once you get up to the scale of building you're dealing with here, there's no such thing as a 'catalog' of features to pick from. It's all custom design.

(And as a side note: If you're dealing with a 'custom luxury home builder' who has a 'catalog' of options you can pick from, you're not really dealing with a 'custom home builder' *or* a 'luxury home builder', much less both.)

 

[AidenShaw]

Two interesting and opposing opinion pieces in today's Mercury News...

Wolverton: Apple's spaceship is landing in the wrong place

Apple’s new campus is going to be a traffic nightmare that offers little benefit to the surrounding community; instead of being a symbol for Silicon Valley, it’s going to be emblematic of urban planning gone way wrong.
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Apple says the campus will be closed to the public, and a fence around the perimeter of the property will guarantee that. The public won't even get to use a long-planned creek trail that would have run through the southeastern corner of the property, because Cupertino acquiesced to Apple's paranoid security concerns.
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The last bit really ticks me off - the peninsula communities have been building an interconnected network of walking and bicycling trails along the creeks in the valley. But Apple is blocking one of these trails. I hope that the Cupertino city council has the cojones to say "no" to the spaceship.

and

Herhold: New Apple building will bring worldwide attention

Every now and then in suburbia, you have to take a chance on greatness. And that's what the circular Apple building designed by Sir Norman Foster represents. It is unlike any structure in Silicon Valley, and for that reason, it will draw attention and acclaim.
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[kdarling]

When United Way drops the Boy Scouts of America from their benefit list I'll send them money again. Until then, "United Way" equals "No Way".

I'm disappointed that Samsung supports the United Way, and have sent them feedback on that. One voice probably won't matter, but if enough voices say "don't support hate" it could.

The United Way of Austin stopped funding the Scouts back in 2004.

Be sure to follow up with a letter of support to Samsung for being selective.

 

[AidenShaw]

The United Way of Austin stopped funding the Scouts back in 2004.

Be sure to follow up with a letter of support to Samsung for being selective.

Thank you - upon checking I see that the Silicon Valley United Way has also stopped funding the BSA.