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I wonder though - for those who read the article and have worked in both suburban environments and urban ones - would you rather work in the amazing Apple spaceship in the suburbs, or a normal office building in a city-center?
For me, I think I'd still prefer a short commute and the density of stuff that comes with being downtown.
Beautiful building. I wonder though - for those who read the article and have worked in both suburban environments and urban ones - would you rather work in the amazing Apple spaceship in the suburbs, or a normal office building in a city-center? For me, I think I'd still prefer a short commute and the density of stuff that comes with being downtown.
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Beautiful building. I wonder though - for those who read the article and have worked in both suburban environments and urban ones - would you rather work in the amazing Apple spaceship in the suburbs, or a normal office building in a city-center? For me, I think I'd still prefer a short commute and the density of stuff that comes with being downtown.
Honestly it's easier for me to commute out to the suburbs since I am going the opposite flow of traffic. Even though I will use the train to commute downtown it will be longer. Same if I decide to drive, downtown office is half the distance but will take double the time.
12000 people in one building - wow!
The one giant wart that makes this whole project depressingly not futuristic: 9000+ parking spaces. The amount of unproductive space devoted to the storage of cars is just mind boggling. Not much has changed in how people get to work. Single occupancy cars all burning fossil fuel and expelling C02. It may not be a fancy spaceship, but the 100 year old building I work at in downtown Chicago has indoor bike parking and…
Technology doesn't progress at the same pace across all fields. Innovation in the transport of people had a solid run from (well, dating these things is always a little arbitrary) from the age of sail to around the 1960s and then seemed to have stopped. The age of sail promoted Europe's rapid modernisation and industrialization. They dug huge canal systems in some countries. They rolled out empire-grade railroad systems.
Before World war one, air travel meant novelty items like blimps and planes made from bicycles. By the 1960s we had modern airline systems, supersonic fighters that could still fight today...In the following 50 years, we've modernized and digitized what we already had in 1960 but it's not much cheaper, faster or more convenient.
That's why I like the focus on transport. Self driving cars are such a cool technology they get some eyes onto transport. Uber gives us a transport unicorn, which gets investor and founder eyes onto transport. Ideas like hyperloop and Marsone are floating around as inspiration. Hopefully, we're going into a period of progress again.
Beautiful building. I wonder though - for those who read the article and have worked in both suburban environments and urban ones - would you rather work in the amazing Apple spaceship in the suburbs, or a normal office building in a city-center? For me, I think I'd still prefer a short commute and the density of stuff that comes with being downtown.
as with many, my work location changed long after I settled happily where I am at and seems to only move further away.
I am wondering why I find it kind of odd that it doesn't have a childcare center.
> For workers who want to take the café’s pizza back to their pods, Apple created (and patented) a container that lets air and moisture escape so the crust won’t get soggy. Am I correct in saying that this is just a standard to-go box with holes in the bottom?
Seriously, why patent something like this? Why not just give an improved pizza box design to everybody?
> Ive raises an eyebrow. “Well,” he says. “It depends how you define need, doesn’t it?”
The difference between the real Ive and @JonyIveParody[0] is... ?
Then again, I'm not in design or architecture. If it's really significant in that context, it's a shame that it'll be inaccessible to people outside of Apple.