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Also, it will be a challenge to make that underground garage look as beautiful as the building. That is what most visitors will initially see from the building.
Finally, will this be a real click wheel or a modern version without moving parts? :-)
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As the sun wanders across the sky throughout the day and year, every office will have some time spent in direct sun and other times in the shade. I'd probably choose the south side if I could so I could get extra sun in the winter.
I used to have a desk next to a window. Me, and many others taped up newspapers to block the infernal glaring light.
And enjoy my view.
"Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Cheltenham, United Kingdom"
They 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...
Very cool, very futuristic. That is a place I'd like to be. Importantly, they've said they have a few thousand people at 1IL currently and they're consolidating everyone together. That should benefit the communication and innovation having everyone under one roof able to get together and chat.
In short, I love it. More companies should be so bold.
What a lesser mind would come up with given a similar breif: "Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Cheltenham, United Kingdom" http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/gchq/gchq1.html
Quite daring, to plan such a building. Who knows whether they will need the space, four years from now? With multiple buildings, it is easier to make corrections during construction or even afterwards. Also, it will be a challenge to make that underground garage look as beautiful as the building. That is what most visitors will initially see from the building. Finally, will this be a real click wheel or a modern vers…
I think Steve and Tim know they'll need it. I think the interesting thing is not whether they'll need it, it's not like Apple is in any danger of collapsing, but that it shows they don't anticipate needing more. This fits with what we know about Apple wanting to stay lean and mean but it also makes those plans concrete (lol?).
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Isolation and centralization is useful for the corporation; they have more control over physical security, can manage it so employees tend to interact only with other employees, and it costs a lot less to have space for 12,000 employees off the interstate than to have them downtown (if Silicon Valley towns even have "downtowns;" I know far-flung Miami exurbs usually don't.)
Palo Alto and Mountain View have real places; the rest is pretty much all miserable sprawl. I miss working in downtown Palo Alto.
This isn't impressive to me. What would be impressive would be building a skyscraper in downtown SF. Being environmentally friendly isn't building a massive campus on a plot of suburban grassland. Apple likes to say they think differently, but this isn't different. It's just slightly nicer than most other headquarters in a suburban wasteland.
In any other city I think this would be a more valid point. But San Francisco is tiny. A lot of people really don't grok just how geographically small the place is. An Apple move to downtown SF would be incredibly disruptive, would generate epic amounts of traffic on already extremely congested roads, would doubtless increase pollution and energy expense, and price thousands of families out of SF neighborhoods as wea…
Green Metropolis is an interesting read about big cities and sustainability: http://www.amazon.com/Green-Metropolis-Smaller-Driving-Susta...