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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?
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....
And a glaring example of the hubris of Steve Jobs. They're being very optimistic building this given their current downward slide.
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.
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?
... quality of Apple products also vanished
No, I ain't a Jobs fanbois, I am merely stating the fact
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?
camÂpus/'kamp?s/
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
Gee, I just looked up -several- definitions of the word campus, and they all mention that the grounds of a hospital or corporation can also be a campus. Those definitions come from google.com, merriam-webster.com, dictionary.com, thefreedictionary.com and wikipedia.org. Some sites note that traditionally, a campus was only the grounds of a university or college. But today's definition is broader. Do you just like to argue for argument's sake?
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.
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 :-)
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.