A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus

Post by Markoff » Thu, May 18, 2017, 7:07 PM UTC

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yep, it looks really awful like something from 80s almost in par with commie architecture, these guys wasting money apparently never heard of Zaha Hadid and likes common, it's just massive boring circle, even Pentagon building is more original, there are only two things making this building interesting - size, Apple HQ make it ten times smaller and put there unknown company and nobody would bother to read about it

Hadid is the most overrated architect in modern times.

Post by valuearb » Thu, May 18, 2017, 9:54 PM UTC

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I'm anti-land use planning without compensation, so no. If you want to inexpensively "fully engage" in society, go head and live in an apartment downtown or on a bus/train line. But don't restrict my ability to raise my kids in a home with a yard.

Does legalizing apartment buildings 'restrict' your ability to raise your kids in a home with a yard? Because it's illegal to build apartment buildings on the vast majority of land in nearly every American city— that's the exclusive reason why so much urban land consists of nothing but single-family homes in this country. Seattle is an example: http://i1.wp.com/www.myballard.com/wp-content/uploads/seattl... Do you th…

Post by JBlue42 » Fri, May 19, 2017, 2:40 AM UTC

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> In urban planning, one has to be careful to solve the correct problem. The problem is not too many cars parked on a residential street. The problem is getting customers to businesses with minimal bad side effects. The problem is getting people to different places, without them using too much space within the city. This means as little car usage as possible. The example I mentioned – combined with cheap public trans…

Cheap public transit is an actual solution. Parking meters are just one way to get people to use it, and not a very good one: by the time people find out there are meters (when trying to park), it's too late to take the transit! The money it cost to install meters would have been better spent on a marketing campaign to raise awareness of the transit option, or subsidizing the transit prices.

Post by Markoff » Sat, May 20, 2017, 5:16 AM UTC

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from that standpoint they are exciting, from architectural not really, at least not in 2017 Actually Chicago seem like one of very few places I would really like to visit in US (very photogenic from what I have seen), but I don't see myself visiting US anytime soon with your government attitude since 9/11 (I don't really think Trump is something really evil compared to Obama or Bush, they all essentially destroyed al…

Lighten up and get off the Internet's 24 hour news cycle of alarmism and outrage. I travel the world quite often and it's a beautiful place full of lovely people. Separating people from politics is a good thing to do. You'll find wherever you go there's a lot of people who don't agree with the current state of affairs. I've been many places I think are backwards but then you find there's a lot of decent people there…

Post by kbutler » Wed, May 24, 2017, 2:33 PM UTC

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I have two, but I'm not taking them to my employers childcare. I took them to a good childcare that I picked out competitively. And now they are in school. Company perks shouldn't be enjoyable by only a tiny minority of the company at any one time.

Well that's how all company perks are. Company gyms aren't large enough for literally all their employees to use at once, or even frequently interspaced over a single day. Apart from coffee machines, and maybe food service... no physical location perk is capable of handling the entire staff.