New Photos Offer an Inside Look at Apple Campus 2

[pat500000]

Now if only they could put this much design effort into giving us a new iPhone form factor.

Yes....red iPhone 7 looking phone.

 

[jtrauscht]

Whenever people start building monuments to themselves, you've got trouble. I'm happy Apple has had success – I've benefitted from its great products over the last 25 years. But lately they are losing me, and this massive effort and expense is becoming a representation for my disappointment. Less a spaceship and more of a Spruce Goose.

 

[Boatboy24]

"The ceiling of the ring-shaped building is equipped with a series of skylights that will let in natural light...Ledges extending out over windows block light, as do built-in window shades."

So, they installed skylights to allow natural light in, but put ledges extending out over windows to block light? Got it.

 

[hexor]

3000 species? Is he sure about that?

 

[C DM]

The ceiling of the ring-shaped building is equipped with a series of skylights that will let in natural light...Ledges extending out over windows block light, as do built-in window shades.

So, they installed skylights to allow natural light in, but put ledges extending out over windows to block light? Got it.

Natural light that is more ambient coming in from the top vs. potential direct sunlight coming from the side?

 

[Attirex]

spaceship of babel

 

[belvdr]

Looks like any other office building from the inside.

 

[Woodcrest64]

Looking forward to when they make thinner MacBook Pro with no keyboard with the ULTRA size touch pad at this new HQ

 

[Crazy Badger]

Hats off, it does look stunning and would be a great place to work. Let's just hope it creates a renewed sense of purpose and drives the employees to bigger and better things, not more of the same at a higher price

 

[ChrisCW11]

By the time this thing is done Apple will have to lease half the space out because they won't have enough products selling well to keep the lights on. Maybe they can lease the space to Foxconn and this will be the new US factory.

There is only so much lab space you need to find ways of gluing innovative components made by other companies like Intel, LG or Samsung into metal cases.

 

[pat500000]

-made with iphones sales-

 

[mitso]

Those huge ledges outside the windows are going to be great when birds **** all over them

Plan A was to employ mexicans but now with Trump plan B is for Apple to create a custom cleaning machine that would track around the perimeter eaves of the building to clean all ledges and windows within the hour.

 

[belvdr]

Let's not turn this political. It's only an office building.

 

[magicschoolbus]

but...does it have ports?

 

[coolfactor]

All that space just to make iPhone designs. I remember the time when Apple made professional computer equipment! Those were heady days. I thought they would never end. Oh well, same story with democracy. But thats another thread.

You're aware that this is about consolidating a growing number of split teams in various locations around the city, bringing them all back together again, with room to grow. The was a much-needed upgrade!

 

[mitso]

Let's not turn this political. It's only an office building.

Politics set the rules in which we operate in..

 

[coolfactor]

Let's not turn this political. It's only an office building.

It's not "just" an "office" building. This is the new Apple HQ, the greatest company in the world! At least, it will give them a chance to re-earn that title.

 

[kdarling]

A building of absolute beauty. You'd be hard pressed to dread going into work.

Workers care more about the size and placement of their cubicle, than what the outside looks like

I've read that walkways go all the way around both inside and outside the circle. If so, that means all offices are contained inside, and no one has an outside view from their office.

Does anyone know if that's the way it is?

 

[now i see it]

Let it be known for those who haven't worked behind a corporate desk all day long, year after year staring at a computer, that it doesn't make jack difference what the building you work in looks like.
You're still staring at that GD screen all day long in a physical state of torpor with little to no time to get up and take any break except your 1 hour lunch.

 

[C DM]

Let it be known for those who haven't worked behind a corporate desk all day long, year after year staring at a computer, that it doesn't make jack difference what the building you work in looks like.
You're still staring at that GD screen all day long in a physical state of torpor with little to no time to get up and take any break except your 1 hour lunch.

Plenty of people have more time to take a break here and there and enjoy the amenities, in particular when it comes to how things work in companies like this in Silicon Valley.

 

[GimmeSlack12]

...in just one access tunnel, it's taken 60 workers five months to lay small tiles on the curved walls...

This would be a terrible time for an earthquake.

 

[diipii]

This will be an icon for everything that went wrong with Apple.

Totally, completely spot on.
In 5 years they will have to sell it.

 

[maroot]

I wonder what happens to the building when Apple goes under. I can't imagine too many businesses that can move into there.

 

[Precision Gem]

With an HQ like this, I expect more updates across product lines, more innovation, more experimentation/R&D.

Or hopefully more emojis!

 

[0007776]

I wonder what happens to the building when Apple goes under. I can't imagine too many businesses that can move into there.

If they do some property holding company will buy it and lease it out to several different companies to use.