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Renderings Highlight Interior of Apple's Upcoming 'Spaceship' Campus
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Very futuristic, I like the green along the parking garage. Hopefully my future lab will be there...
They really should have put the garage underground and use the freed up space for a park like setting. Parking garages just don't age well due to the heavy use.
All white interior design is very in-human. I wonder how life will be like for the employees.
The historical notion stems from christian monasteries to be fee of distraction for the disciples. I'm not saying put rainbow gradients all over the place but some color.
The historical notion stems from christian monasteries to be fee of distraction for the disciples. I'm not saying put rainbow gradients all over the place but some color.
I go twice just to use those things. And they are better looking and more useful.
Cook could be a hero and go down as a great CEO if he just says no to this kiddie star war asteroid blaster game boy building and does something useful instead.
The karma gods will descend upon Apple like rabid locusts if this thing is built.
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Its kind of sad that inside such a cool building it looks like a cookie cutter corporate headquarters.
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Looks like the rendering artist doesn't know the difference between white and yellow pavement markings.
In related news, I had no idea they had to acquire so many buildings (and apparently most of a presumably public street) to be able to do this. There was so much green space and so many trees in the renderings I thought it was some new suburban development.
In related news, I had no idea they had to acquire so many buildings (and apparently most of a presumably public street) to be able to do this. There was so much green space and so many trees in the renderings I thought it was some new suburban development.
It's hard to imagine that iPhones and iPads are going to be enough to support such an expensive and grand headquarters for very long. I feel like such an amazing structure has to be backed up by some pretty great innovations in the next few years.
I don't know if Fosters did these in-house, or outsourced the renders, but some of these are exceptionally poor and unfinished. I don't just mean the render quality, but the ID is really bad. There is a difference between simplicity and just lazy work, and this is the latter.
While I much prefer collaged Photoshop work with all the lush wildflowers much more than slick renders, you still have to model the bloody building that you're making the images of.
And this was commissioned work, not a competition, so they can't even use the excuse that these were rushed off at the concept stage. Even for Foster this is really high profile project - you'd think they'd put the effort in.
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While I much prefer collaged Photoshop work with all the lush wildflowers much more than slick renders, you still have to model the bloody building that you're making the images of.
And this was commissioned work, not a competition, so they can't even use the excuse that these were rushed off at the concept stage. Even for Foster this is really high profile project - you'd think they'd put the effort in.
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That's an impressive video. I wish it had the names of those places in it. Some I'd like to see in person.
I guess I meant more like 'hyper-Scandinavian' than the ham handed 'European'. In a way I had the same reaction when seeing the pictures of the yacht he ordered. Very... *something* Something not quite... Hmm... Nothing that I would want to own. I kept looking at the pictures of the 'spaceship' and thinking that if I worked there, I'd want to 'trick out' my office so that it would be the opposite of the sterility and impersonalness seen in those images. I'd hustle through the robotic environment as quickly as I could, just so I could relax in 'my own' environment...
I remember walking down North De Anza Boulevard and looking in at some of the offices and seeing one in particular that was pretty 'tricked out'. It had a Rogue neon bar sign on a wall. It was lighted at the time. I thought that was kinda cool. The rest of the room, from what little I could make out of it, looked cozy and comfortable. I remember seeing a documentary on Pixar's new offices and the incredibly creative and outlandish decors that some of the creative people had in their offices. I was amazed, and amused. I've worked in some places where it was like a prison. One place had to 'OK' everything before you placed it, and had veto rights over where it was placed. Family pictures (in a 'respectable amount' and 'average size') were permitted, but other items were all a political incident. Another place where mechanics worked, etc, had basically 'who cares' attitude. Nudity was permitted, until a vendor complained, then 'covers' were required... It was sick...
But anyway...
I'll never work at the 'spaceship'...
