That council is so embarrassing.
Steve Jobs Presents His Ideas For A New Apple Campus
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#12Wow, such a beautiful campus.
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#13When I saw the photos, I figured that the building's circumference would be so wide that curved glass would not just be unnecessary, but almost counter-productive, as it's difficult to curve glass without imperfections that might ruin its reflections.
Surely we'd be talking about small fractions of a degree per pane.
Can anyone estimate what the building circumference is, and therefore what amount of curve would be called for?
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#14I recently went to 1 infinite loop for the first time, and was extremely disappointed with the building. It was strikingly anti-apple in its aesthetic, seeming more like it was something out of Office Space from most angles rather than from the mind of Johnny Ives. I am really glad to see how forward-thinking the concept looks.
The Infinite Loop campus was actually buit in 1993, before Steve returned and Jony was made head of ID.
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#15Watching this presentation makes me think of how important it is to stick to your values across everything you are doing. The building Steve jobs presented has some of the same design principles found in the recent apple products; roundness, simplicity, clean neutral colors, environmental friendly, etc. I think this gives apple great appeal.
But he also calls it 'human scale', while in the pictures the building looks huge: it's a kind of hollow frisbee, pentagon-style.
Maybe it's because I'm from a small country, we don't have skyscrapers here ;-)
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#16Only Steve could glue me to the screen for 20 mins to watch a city council meeting. It's like listening to PT Barnum read the J Peterman catalog.
I laughed when he projected the estimated percent increase in trees. I hope this filters into future presentations. "We're here to announce the iPhone 5, but first...we've been really, really happy with the growth of our tree population here at Apple."
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#17They should have asked when the iPhone 5 is coming out Plus: very sneaky for the council to ask for free wifi, ipads, more apple stores, donations for schools in this presentation...
Could have been worse. They could have requested hookers and blow. And donations wired to an offshore account :-)
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#18Not only will the new building become a tourist destination but it will be a prime tool for recruiting.
All the greenery and landscaping also made me wondering in what extent this new campus will be accessible to the general public. Will you be able to just go there and take a walk in Apple Park, or will there a big fence around it?
In the presentation you see casual people walking and playing about.
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#19It reminds me somewhat of the Borland campus. That thing was Japanese inspired, and shaped like a kind of jagged C, but similarly had a large central courtyard, and due to its shape had lots of natural light in the offices.
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#20Really, really nice looking building and landscaping. Why keep the IL1 campus, instead of just moving everybody into a slightly larger mothership in 2015?
Sounds like they still need the space. 20% Increase with 13000 current employees. IL1 will be needed to house everyone.
They haven't built the new one yet; they could always make it bigger. Even simply thickening it would likely add a ton of space.