I think they really intend to plant hemp in the courtyard.
You would think they would have planted Apple trees instead.
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Steve Jobs Pitches Cupertino on Stunning New Apple Campus
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I think they really intend to plant hemp in the courtyard.
You would think they would have planted Apple trees instead.
Take another look at the video. He covered that. Plus, moving all those satellite location employees (not all in Cupertino right now) into Cupertino and increasing numbers to 12-13,000 is not a bad deal for having them spend their own money putting up a building on land they already own, that is already zoned for that purpose, and is currently largely vacant.
I do share your distaste for billionaire team owners wanting the public to buy them a building and let them get all the proceeds, but that is clearly not the case here.
Seriously. These are also the same people I have seen who support Wiki leaks and were critical of Arizona immigration law. Lots of hypocrites.
Moving employees to one central location would be amazing. Going from Bubb to Infinite Loop is a pain in the butt.
I guess you aren't aware that this type of glass panel design are one of the most earthquake proof building architectures that exist. There are many of these types of buildings in Japan, and they've all survived the recent earthquake without any real damage. The concrete/bricks buildings however (like the type of structures many people in the US work in), developed many cracks and became unsafe (even if the exterior looked okay).
Council packets were compiled on Monday. This likely went through the P&Z board before it was presented to the council. City governments are required by law to have open meetings and records. In other words, even if Steve presented it last night, it was distributed to the council before hand and the information easily could have leaked out from there.
you are not an engineer, dont worry i ll sway by your trailer park and explain it to you..
...what is it with the ****ed up comments here on Steve, jesus...
Cupertino is *lucky* that Apple isn't extorting the town for perks... most companies - especially sports franchises - would go to the government and ask them to pay them (tax rebates, building them new infrastructure) to locate in their city or county.
The city where I live just bought 2/3 of a *stadium* for their losing football team and gave them massive tax rebates for the next 50 years (yes, 50 years!) to stay.
no wind
Solar for sure, but there's little wind in Cupertino - wind generators would be inefficient.
Solar for sure, but there's little wind in Cupertino - wind generators would be inefficient.
Congratulations - you just volunteered to take pics for MacRumors for the next 4 years!
Hrm, better be careful there. You might be scheduled for dna recycling if you say too much about the office defenses...
Just a minor correction...
The current campus has quite a bit of underground parking, and their emergency power generators are down there as well.
This is because the land was so contaminated by the previous owners (Motorola, I believe) that they had to truck out an enormous amount of contaminated soil in order to make the place safe. So they just stuck in a parking garage under the IL1-4 buildings.
The current campus has quite a bit of underground parking, and their emergency power generators are down there as well.
This is because the land was so contaminated by the previous owners (Motorola, I believe) that they had to truck out an enormous amount of contaminated soil in order to make the place safe. So they just stuck in a parking garage under the IL1-4 buildings.
These datacenters will conquer the most knowledgable among us, reducing them to ancient relics. Incidentally, Sitting Bull temporarily escaped to Canada before he was driven south to die.
HAHA welcome to the internet, where everybody's a architect, civil engineer, electrical engineer, software engineer, patent lawyer, criminal lawyer, doctor etc...
Norman Foster I believe. He brought us the London gherkin and the Reichstag, Germany...
EDIT: Foster + Partners also have a \zero carbon' master plan for Abu Dubai, so their 'green' credentials are already at a high!
If you believe some MR posters here, Steve is a blow hard and Apple makes too much wind about itself.
So, should be plenty to get those windmills going!
Also, in case of an earth quake this thing may just take off into the icloud
and land later.
Good for Apple and especially Jobs, I think they deserve a new campus. Great to see him so healthy too!
I'm sad to say he looks weaker and thinner than ever. His voice sounds tired. I wish him to get better really soon.
Love how in these artist rendered pictures there are tones of trees all around. The building is surrounded by miles of the forest primeval and yet when the actual thing gets built those wonderful green trees will never exist.
I think you misread my post. You are agreeing with me.
Not as mature trees, no. That's obvious.
Likely and could have don't support the OP. Read his post about falling stock prices, which would have gone back at least a week.
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Yeap. Because for all business people local communities are top priority. Thats why they all moved to China.