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Apple Park Opens to Employees in April

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Re: Apple Park Opens to Employees in April

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Post by twic »

visakanv wrote: post #42
jonwachob91 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Circular buildings have been around for a lot longer then that. The Pentagon is essentially a round building with a grassy area in the middle.

> The Pentagon is essentially a round building I burst out laughing at this comment, because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism Aristotle: the essential qualities of an object are those properties that make the thing what it is, without which it would not be that kind of thing jonwachob91: a pentagon is essentially a circle Aristotle: u wot m8

A pentagon is absolutely a circle - for sufficiently large values of five.

Re: Apple Park Opens to Employees in April

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Post by reality_czech »

rayiner wrote: post #61
sergiotapia wrote: post #2

This is so beautiful and inspiring. A real legacy. Imagine a world without Apple computers pushing the envelope. We'd still be using wired mice and ugly black boxes. If only Steve Jobs had taken the traditional medicine route he would have been with us for another 50 years.

There is nothing beautiful or inspiring about a suburban office complex in the middle of nowhere. To the contrary, the Apple office park epitomizes many of the things wrong with America: turning the workplace into an island unto itself, and turning land that could be used for nature into a useless manicured lawn. It would have been far more efficient to build the thing as a few 12-14 story buildings in the nearest ci…

Cupertino is not "the middle of nowhere." And 12 story buildings are a terrible idea in an earthquake zone with soft ground.

The amount of space we use for office parks is tiny in comparison with the amount of space we use for agriculture. Only 3% of the land used in the US is urban sprawl-- less than the total acreage of a single crop, alfalfa hay. https://www.westernwatersheds.org/watmess/watmess_2002/2002h...

Of course, Cupertino's public transportation sucks. But so does San Francisco's, even though it's tiny. Maybe stop bragging about where you live, and find something else to be a snob about.

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Post by donavanm »

russellbeattie wrote: post #90

My only issue is that I bet the center of the building is going to be a complete waste and totally deserted except for employees occasionally taking a shortcut between sides (if the doors are set up to do that). The building is big (I drive by it regularly), but not so big to give the central area any sense of privacy, so when you walk out into it, you're going to sense that 12,000 eyes are watching you. I've been in…

Id be very surprised. I worked in infinite loop for a couple years. The central courtyard was full of people every day around lunch time, with constant singletons & small groups. And big organized events used it every couple of weeks.

Re: Apple Park Opens to Employees in April

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Post by HappyTypist »

jpeg_hero wrote: post #68

Great Newspeak for their Office Building. In this "Office Building" approximately 70% of all the employees' time will be 1) writing emails and 2) having meetings in conference rooms. But instead it is "Apple Park" where work is leisure and being inside working is actually frolicking.

I think that's an extrapolation gone too far with the word 'Park'. Another take is that Apple is designing a campus that embraces nature with a wide open space in the middle, accessible equidistantly to everyone.

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Post by reustle »

stuckagain wrote: post #116
DerekL wrote: post #113

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There are VTA buses. They come every 30 minutes, and it would take you about 30 minutes to get to the Sunnyvale Caltrain station.

As far as I can tell from the schedule the minimum bus trip from this site to Sunnyvale Caltrain is 44 minutes, plus an average 10 minutes for headway. That assumes you did not start off on the east face of the UFO, in which case you should add a walk of up to a mile to get to the VTA stop on Wolfe. Walking would be just about as fast.

Do you really think Apple is going to make their employees walk to the train station? They will obviously have shuttles running

Re: Apple Park Opens to Employees in April

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Post by stuckagain »

reustle wrote: post #127
stuckagain wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as I can tell from the schedule the minimum bus trip from this site to Sunnyvale Caltrain is 44 minutes, plus an average 10 minutes for headway. That assumes you did not start off on the east face of the UFO, in which case you should add a walk of up to a mile to get to the VTA stop on Wolfe. Walking would be just about as fast.

Do you really think Apple is going to make their employees walk to the train station? They will obviously have shuttles running

That doesn't seem obviously true to me. Google for example doesn't run shuttles to Mountain View Caltrain.

Apple operates door-to-door shuttles to SF and other population centers but that isn't really the point. The point is they have obviously provisioned enough parking to give each and every one of their employees a parking space, with some left over. It's just irresponsible given the traffic situation in the area, and to call it energy efficient is greenwashing.

Re: Apple Park Opens to Employees in April

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Post by JKCalhoun »

reality_czech wrote: post #122
rayiner wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is nothing beautiful or inspiring about a suburban office complex in the middle of nowhere. To the contrary, the Apple office park epitomizes many of the things wrong with America: turning the workplace into an island unto itself, and turning land that could be used for nature into a useless manicured lawn. It would have been far more efficient to build the thing as a few 12-14 story buildings in the nearest ci…

Cupertino is not "the middle of nowhere." And 12 story buildings are a terrible idea in an earthquake zone with soft ground. The amount of space we use for office parks is tiny in comparison with the amount of space we use for agriculture. Only 3% of the land used in the US is urban sprawl-- less than the total acreage of a single crop, alfalfa hay. https://www.westernwatersheds.org/watmess/watmess_2002/2002h... Of c…

I'll add, Cupertino appears not to allow buildings taller than 4 storeys as well. The skyscraper idea is a non-starter unless Apple relocated to downtown San Jose.

Re: Apple Park Opens to Employees in April

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Post by snewk »

DigitalJack wrote: post #93
nodesocket wrote: post #19

Matthew Roberts (not me) has been posting awesome drone flyover videos of the construction. The video is absolutely stunning and filmed in 4k. Highly recommended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvkh5udzKds

I'm guessing Segways will be popular there.

or bikes
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