If you love Apple and fine ingenious design as much as we do, you will be thrilled to hear that the beautiful, environmentally-aware Foster + Partners designed new Apple Campus is now one step closer to becoming a reality. The Cupertino City Council has just announced that Apple Inc. has submitted a development proposal for their new Apple Campus. — openbuildings.com
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I can't help thinking a cubicle smasher.
Jobs must have hated including all those windows.
yet they still make disposable crappy products..
Death Star + Pentagon
"All those who believe in Apple, step inside the circle."
- Darren Sumner
The renderings are very revealing - the story they tell is that this exists in the middle of a supernaturally glowing forest, not a suburban office park.
looks like some futuristic project from the sixties
haha Bill Gates hires a Mac based company to build his house and Steve Jobs hires a Windows based company to build his office
I mistook the existing site plan for a warren of underground bunkers, under the glowing donut. I thought that was a bold statement - an admission that computers don't like daylight, or heat. Unfortunately the project isn't that interesting, or that functional.
What's with all the hate about this project (here and elsewhere that I've read)? Personally, I think it looks exciting, and totally consistent with Apple's approach.
it's a hi res pentagon
I agree with Paul. On top of seeming very light and environmentally sound, it will do a lot to propel the brand. I won't be surprised if it will be the most recognized corporate headquarters in recent history (how many buildings on google earth can you immediately recognize and associate with a company?)
Hey man, some of us are PC users who buy used computer parts from e bay to keep ourselves connected. Let us hate the renderings a little, at least before the construction starts :))
Perhaps the most offensive project of the decade. Fuck context. Fuck everyone. The Sci-arc spaceship has landed.
Is the intended client even aware of the absurdity?
I didn't know until today that Steve Jobs' biological father was a Syrian Muslim. Even though Jobs became a Buddhist later, let's see if the Islamophobics are going to purify their I-phones in rose water when this becomes more public like the Muslim president? .;.)
Btw, people have a short memory here..
Last June this project was discussed here in Archinect with links to some homegrown reviews and sometimes reactionary questions in those reviews..
I didn't realize just how horrible this thing was until I saw the site plan. It is seriously straight out of a 1960s planning manual for "corporate office park." Absolutely wretched!
hahaha Thanks won and done Williams! In plan it's very ancient rome. High density on the sides and in the middle it's where the christians fight the lions while the neighborhood watches.
I think it is brilliant! Classic, pure, simple with lots of air, light, and that footprint!
There is a lot to be said for a great big round building in a great big green park. But at such a huge size, it really misses out in two areas.
First, it needs to be broken down to a human scale. Can you imagine single individuals, let alone whole departments, getting swallowed up as anonymous microscopic dots inside one ever repeating monster space craft?
Second, this gargantuan design really misses out on its potential to build on it's size and its unique longitude and latitude on planet Earth. As a 3-D Kinetic Building Machine, it can really work as a piece of art to capture store and release energy, and save millions over its lifespan.
At such a large scale, Apple and their architects should incorpate as much as possible into this project.
L-Davidson
Foster has done a great job designing this stadium for the upcoming World Cup in Qatar.
What's that...This isn't a stadium design?
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