[Apple] has staff scattered in rented buildings throughout the city. The plan for the future campus puts 12,000 to 13,000 employees inside a single four-story oval building. Jobs made a convincing case for what he calls "a shot at building the best office building in the world." By moving parking underground, 80% of the 150-acre property will be landscaped. Apple has hired the lead arborist from Stanford to fill it with 6,000 trees, and the company will build its own energy center power source. — mashable.com
We assume this design is by Norman Foster, judging from the design and rendering style, but we don't have confirmation.
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I have enormous respect for Steve Jobs... but can someone please buy him some new clothes?
No, sorry. It is too important that Stevie keep wearing the same clothes. It is his aura, yo!
Via esquire.com:
"At the 1999 keynote, Apple -- after offering the iMac in a choice of five colors at a time when desktop computers were no color at all -- was offering the iBook in a choice of tangerine and blueberry. So it made sense for Jobs to put on the black mock turtleneck, the blue jeans, the New Balances. But then he never took them off. He never wore anything else. Two years later, he wore them to introduce the iPod; six years after that, he wore them to introduce the iPhone. The decision to give himself no decisions, the choice to deprive himself of choices, turned out to be final. Apple's product line would evolve; Jobs would not, preferring to cast himself as the mere conduit by which Apple's products made their way into the world. In the weeks leading up to his keynotes from that date forward, no one ever speculated on what Jobs would wear; they knew. The speculation centered only on what Jobs would introduce -- his next move -- which is exactly how Jobs wanted it. The uniform was not just part of his aura; it was his aura, a physical manifestation both of who he was and who he wasn't, and at least one of the people who had to negotiate with him found it unnerving: "What kind of person has a closet full of a hundred black turtlenecks and a hundred pairs of blue jeans? I'm telling you, he's maniacal."
does it matter with his clothes??? who care about his clothes, they just need his talent!!!!!!
Norman Foster....big F'U to BCJ if you ask me
I would more likely believe that Steve Jobs paid Foster to say he designed it when in fact it was enterprise architects getting campy with their professional titles
I think he is making an on/off button for the earth.....
What's up with the renderings? I feel like I'm watching a 1970s feminine hygiene commercial.
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