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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.
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.
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.
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It's a very poor summary. There's this:" 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."
Work the math, and those concrete slabs weigh about 100 lbs. each. I don't think so. And is that "doors" or a single "collective" door?
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Does it have rounded corners? And are they patented?
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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.
The prose in the article was written by someone innumerate, but the bullet points call out reasonable numbers. The biggest concrete slabs weigh 60,000 lbs. and the heaviest panes weigh 7,000 lbs.
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Yeah, 16 milliwatts sounds a mite wimpy.
Should be like an iPad.
If they break any of that glass they should have to buy a new building.
It'll be nice office space. If and when Apple shrinks enough that they don't need it anymore, it could easily be subdivided into wedges that are rented out to whatever other firms are growing at the time. No need to allocate the entire thing at once. What you're saying is like complaining that few people can afford to buy the entire Empire State Building so it's a bad idea to build it.
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