There’s been one hiccup since it opened last year: Apple employees keep smacking into the glass. — Bloomberg
The Apple headquarters in Cupertino, CA, designed by Foster and Partners, was built with much glass—the building's exterior features the famed curved panels of safety glass while the interior is populated with work spaces, also made from glass. Well, apparently, the favored building material is starting to be a real pain as Apple employees keep bumping into the clear, spotless walls.
This is not the first time Apple's penchant for prioritizing aesthetics over functionality has posed a safety risk. This winter, their flagship store in Chicago, also designed by Foster, caused a snow-related safety hazard due to its thin, gutter-less, carbon fiber roof.
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That's not an accident, it's the roll-out of Apple's New iFat (Facial Touch Screen).
I bet it's partly pilot error as techies like to say. Walking around in their tech bubble, maybe they're eyes are glued to their phones.
“While it is a technical marvel to make glass at this scale, that’s not the achievement,” Jony Ive, Apple’s design chief, told the magazine in May. “The achievement is to make a building where so many people can connect and collaborate and walk and talk.”
Too bad it's a gargantuan, aesthetically undifferentiated Versailles with nothing to look at except at the donut of captured nature...yikes!
http://fortune.com/2018/02/16/...
There's an app for that - it projects the area in front of you as the background to whatever you're doing on your phone.
the best and brightest
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toxic architecture.
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