According to a recent press release, Apple has broken ground on its new $1 billion, 3-million-square-foot campus. The campus will initially house 5,000 employees, with the capacity to grow to 15,000, and is expected to open in 2022.
Apple's growth in Austin is part of the company's nation wide expansion to increase its investment in manufacturing, engineering, and other jobs across the country. Apple is on track to contribute $350 billion to the US economy between 2018 and 2023, and during that time will hire an additional 20,000 employees, the company reports.
Apple has also partnered with Austin-based Bartlett Tree Experts in an effort to preserve the diversity of native trees on the 133-acre property. According to the organization, over 60 percent of the campus will consist of landscaping, which will include a "50-acre nature and wildlife preserve that will be open to the public."
According to reports, it is assumed that Studio8 Architects will be handling the design of the new campus.
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Looks like another campus design dud from Apple.
Architecture is not product design! Fools
As I have commented here before, large scale architectural projects in Austin are almost always boring or ugly. The only really world-class building in town is the LBJ Library complex that SOM completed in 1971.
... large scale architectural projects for Apple are almost always boring or ugly. Match made in heaven.
Shouldn't that be the secure Blackberry campus?
Why? BB is a Canadian company and it's HQ is in waterloo.
The United States generally needs to improve the caliber of phone technology; Texas isn’t always the best solution for improving technology; especially with California innovators, Texas should be trying to counter Foxxconn in production.
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architecture doesn't matter that much. tech bros and austin contractors don't know jack about it. why would they need to start now?
Typical that Apple spends the big bucks on Norman Foster designs in cities that matter to them, while Austin gets something less than the best.
So more like a shiny work camp?
If the workers can't see themselves reflected in every surface THE CLEANING STAFF GETS THE HOSE AGAIN.
Is that image accurate? It looks terrible, jesus.
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