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A Tour of Campus 2, Apple's Upcoming Headquarters (popsci.com)
Dave Knott writes from a report via Popular Science: Popular Science has an article detailing Campus 2, Apple's upcoming headquarters, including a video with a tour of the complex which is still under construction. The Spaceship, as many have nicknamed it, is over one mile in circumference and when it is completed later this year it will house 13,000 employees. Its exterior will largely be composed of thousands of huge curved glass planes; the floors and ceilings will be constructed from hollow concrete slabs that allow the building to "breathe," bolstering its eco-friendly qualities. Campus 2 will run entirely on renewable energy, with rooftop solar panels providing an output of 16 megawatts of power and acting as the campus's primary energy supplier. Upon completion, the main building will have four stories above ground and three below, with numerous other facilities including seven cafes, a fitness center and a 120,000 square-foot theater where Apple will hold its famous product announcements. Construction on the building is expected to be finished by the end of 2016. Interesting facts: Apple used 4,300 concrete slabs, weighing a total of 212 tons, to create the structure. The Spaceship also features 330-ton, 92-foot-tall steel reinforced doors for its restaurant -- the dining-hall doors alone span 60,000 square feet and collectively weigh 330 tons. The campus boasts 900 panels of vertical glass, 1,600 panes of canopy glass, 510 panes of clerestory glass, and 126 panes for skylight glass (3,000 total). The total cost of the project is approximately $5 billion.
Where they plan on housing all the non-existent talent that they need to actually maintain and improve OS X and iOS these days?
First post in the thread and it's dripping with irrational hatred. You really need to go and get some therapy....
Was this written by a bot? It refers to the restaurant doors and their weight, two separate times in the same sentence. The concrete slabs used to create the building weigh a total of 212 tons? Seriously, read what you write....
The boy needs therapy. He is crazy in the coconut.
I don't always build environmentally friendly campuses, but when I do, the restaurant doors are 92 feet talk and weigh 330 tons. Because energy efficiency when opening them.
Mind blown.
It's said that, usually, when a company builds some "flagship headquarters", that marks the apex of said company, and it's all downhill from then on. We'll see.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
Or do the cafeteria doors actually weigh 1.5x as much as the total amount of concrete used to build the thing.
The boy needs therapy. He is crazy in the coconut.
Lie down on the couch, what does that mean?
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
This whole project seems like a gigantic waste of the shareholder's money. Sure, when you have a mostly salaried workforce, it is fiscally prudent to have a nice workplace, to keep those salaried workers at work & doing lots of unpaid overtime, but this project is just way over the top. I doubt that this $5 billion workplace will make the workers any more productive than more conventional $500 million campus would.
Destruction leads to creation, that leads to the cycle beginning again... It will be fun to see where Apple goes in the future.
Does it have rounded corners? And are they patented?
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
The Spaceship, as many have nicknamed it
Who calls it that? I've always called it the glass doughnut.
Isn't it amazing what a company can do when they have way too much money and no idea what to do with it?
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Does it have rounded corners? And are they patented?
That one's so old it's got a long white beard and arthritis. Can't you guys come up with some new material already?
He's not irrational. There's something really wrong with OSX. With each new release, what I see everywhere is complaints of how buggy it is. Also, their hardware is crippled, due to a stupid obsession with slimness that makes them put laptop parts in desktop machines.
And his is based on your years of using OS X? ... or is it based on anecdotal evidence gathered form Slashdot summaries and your general dislike of Apple? I've been using OS X since 10.2 and I can't say I've noticed it being any more buggy than the Fedora Linuxs + Gonme 3 setup I use at work these days. I know this runs contrary to the preconceptions of a good number of the people that frequent this site and are experts on OS X despite never having used it, but I have karma to burn so I'll voice my experience regardless.
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noun
the grounds and buildings of a university or college.
this is called an "office" or "company headquarters", pretty, but it certainly isnt a university or school so why call it a word that means exactly that ?
From a 1 mile sq ring even at peak output that seems like they are using very expensive panels.
Where's Campus 1?
so that's what happened to the dividends.
when apple goes to shit in another 5-10 years without uncle steve's leadership and "vision".. then what?
more figures:
2.8 million square feet / 13,000 employees = 215 sq ft each. a little more than 200 per employee but not unreasonable given the extra facilities
2.8 million square feet * $2/sq ft/mo = $5.6 million per month. a typical lease rate for region (out of the bay area could be half that or less; super plush space in prime locations, double that. apple hq is plush space but cupertino is not prime real estate so typical rates it is)
5 billion dollars / 5.6 million * 12 = 74 years 5 months if same space was leased
I can't say I've noticed it being any more buggy than the Fedora Linuxs + Gonme 3 setup...
You'd think an Apple user would have higher standards.
Are they going to have a train or something to move people around more quickly than they can walk?
Tall buildings have elevators to do this.
I may be wrong but I suspect there will be a lot of time wasted by people having to regularly walk long distances to meetings.
First post in the thread and it's dripping with irrational hatred. You really need to go and get some therapy....
I can just imagine you sipping and 8 dollar coffee, the foam catching in your scraggly beard. A smug smile as you type out your intellectually superior Apple user reply. The douche is strong with this one.
Perhaps your Apple ][ needs another 16KB memory expansion card to allow it to run OSX more effeciently.
Disclaimer: I am an athiest, verging on being anti-theist.
I think you mean the threat of extremism. Islam is not the problem, a bunch of nutjobs claiming to represent it is.
Extremism is not the problem.
If you hold a parade, and you allow a bunch of nutjobs to notice the parade, and then walk in front of it as if they are leading it, then when the cameras show up, you let them speak for you, while you stand mutely behind them... those people *ARE* your leaders.
And just to be fair about things:
(1) This is exactly what happened with the Tea Party, when Sarah Palin decided to run home and get her baton and majorette uniform, and march in front of their parade (looking back periodically, to ensure she was still going in going in the right direction, and they hadn't turned down another street instead of still being behind her.
(2) This is exactly what happened with the recent Occupy movement protest degenerating into fires and looting in Oakland, where the people who just enjoyed smashing things figured out that all they had to do was wait around for an Occupy march/protest, join the crowd, and pull their bandana's up over their faces and start throwing bricks through windows.
If you let them stand in front: they *ARE* your leaders, even if you would prefer that they just *go away*.
I may be wrong but I suspect there will be a lot of time wasted by people having to regularly walk long distances to meetings.
At a circumference of a mile, the radius is one mile divided by 2 pi.
So about 840 feet, or just over 250 meters.
Even if you double that for the longest distance, the diameter, you are likely not moving more that 1680 feet, or under a third of a mile. Or 500 meters/half a kilometer if you walk metrically.
The big hint is that there's more than one door inside the circle.
In terms of routing, it's using the same trick as the Cray 1 used to get shortest point-to-point signal paths.
P.S.: Most time spent walking to meetings (or in them) is wasted... ;^)
For those complaining about cost... if you watched the video, you'll see that the concrete slabs are being shipped from Germany.
It's a clever way to "repatriate" a bunch of money by buying concrete and shipping with it, without the money ever landing in the U.S. tax system, don't you think?
I realize you prefer to stay in your parent's basement 24/7, but for many of us it feels good to get up and walk around during the day at work.
As someone who's occupied a number of dank, crappy offices, my condolences to those who get to report to work in the awesomest building on the planet....then slip beneath the earth's surface to their dank, windowless, crappy offices.
Never let a lack of data get in the way of a good rant.
Me, I'll wait for the Campus ][e.
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-n...
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At least at $5B I hope that they are building something like the worlds most advanced light source for a new type of fab. It would be an incredibly stupid waste of money to spend that on a pretty building.
video url for those who don't want to deal with the site's nightmare of javascript:
http://www.dailymotion.com/us/relevance/search/Walking+the+Apple+Campus+2+construction+site/1
The original plans were to have two below ground basement levels...but they are for underground parking. I'm not sure whether the claim of there being three floors now means they added another such level or the reporter is confused.
Here is the original blueprint which clearly shows Basement 1 and Basement 2 as levels containing 2300ish parking spaces each plus ramps, tunnel access and a loading dock/storage area.
That said, I'm sure there will be some windowless crappy offices in interior parts of some of the aboveground levels. (There certainly were in the original Apple Campus!)
I play Nerd-Folk!
I was showing my kid a drone flyover video of the new building a while back. At the time there was a huge earthen ramp into a raised area in the very center. I wondered aloud what it was for and she immediately responded, "that's where the interns fight each other to the death". I was never so proud :-)
Purely psychosomatic.
Meh, I'll take my work headquarters, my home office, over theirs any day. Nothing beats the 15 sec commute, clothing optional, my own boss basically, no one dropping in for a quick chat (except the wife and maybe a quickie) work environment. I know everyone can't do that or have jobs amiable to that but I personally can't go back.
I suppose they only look curved due to the RDF.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
There are not supposed to be any right angles on this house.
I'm using Mac Os X since 10.3.
No offense.
There is a general decline in prettiness (yes, dumb argument), usefulness/usability since then: and it is meanwhile bug ridden. Sorry, you seem to only use niche areas of Mac Os X.
My old Macs basically never crashed. My 2 year old Mac Book Air crashes at least once a month. Often during work it grinds to a halt. Usually it is Flash related stuff ... killing all browsers often helps. However after a few weeks the so called "kernel task" is eating 50% - 80% of CPU on all 4 cores. You simply have to reboot, no way to figure what to kill. My 6 or 8 years old 17" Mac Book running 10.6 is quite fine, but even that one is annoying me sometimes. Fortunately I could trick the Java 8 Installer to install on it. Now only the Java "automatic update" is crashing all the time.
Many bugs are in third party software, which would have caused an uproar in the 1980th. E.g. all browsers or flash(who is responsible?) ignore the setting of the "play immediately" flag.
So after a reboot, 30 or 40 youtube videos start to play, slowly ... saturating the network, the CPU, the computer is useless for 30 minutes. Unless you kill the internet connection quickly and have a "kill -9 `ps axu | grep [Ff]lash | awk -e '{print $1}'`âoe loop. (Don't copy that, likely the awk is wrong)
If I decline "update now and reboot" to often Mail.app starts behaving weird. The search function suddenly does not work anymore e.g. Also the search function in Finder is not working correctly ... since 10.5 or something.
I guess I should make a list ... I have far over 100 bugs which remind me to Windows 3.11 times. Mac OS X is so shit right now, I don't recommend Macs anymore.
It is not only OS X. For some reason the Software Industry thinks adding 20 or 200 new features to the next release (which no one really uses or *needs*) is more important than fixing the stuff the users actually are using.
Ah, except for importing google calendars or other WEB DAV based calendars, Apples iCal is unusable now. Under OS X 10.3 and 10.4 it was the finest Calendar in existence. After 10.4 it does not even recognize Calendar invitations in Mail.app anymore. You have for fuck sake to click on any *.ical extension file in Mail to get iCal to open and import the invitation to events. How retarded is that?
The only thing you can say in favour to Apple is: Outlooks is far worth.
My TimeCapsule lost in January all Back-Ups of my 13" Mac Book Air. The notification that I have no back ups since november 2014 came yesterday. In February I was on vacation. When I came home it made a new back up for a month. So somewhere after beginning of March:
a) my TimeCapsul lost the back ups
b) the Mac nor the TimeCapsul noticed
c) approximately 4 month later suddenly I get a notification
Something similar happened a year ago to my other laptop, copying to the same TimeCapsul.
Apple used to be reliable it is no longer ... I'm orchestrating my own back ups now, just not sure if I should relie on TimeMachine or do my own rsynch/tar/shell stuff.
If something like above happens you completely lose confidence in the products involved and the brand.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
The funny thing is every new version of Windows since XP has been getting better and more stable.
I will agree that Windows 8's GUI was awful, but the OS was stable and ran things well. People complain about Windows 10, but I have had no issues with it. I rarely ever reboot, and have only had a couple crashes, one routinely caused by the removal of a USB-C/TB 3.0 laptop dock, and likely had to do with the video card having to recompose the screens from dual 24" 1920x1200 screens down to 1 4k 15" screen in the laptop.
I used to support Mac OS, but the last one I touched was Lion. Back then I remember all the programmers I supported on OSX having to routinely be rejoined to the domain because the Mac would just stop functioning on the domain for no reason at all. There were other issues, but that one was the most annoying. iPhones hooking to Exchange were pretty flakey as well as I remember it.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?