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Apple Submits Updated Campus 2 Plans to Cupertino
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#12One can only applaud this. You do wonder sometimes why companies spent so few $$ on relaxing office buildings. Looking into nature increases productivity and well-being; also there are a lot of findings on how to organize work floors for optimal collaboration etc. Most companies are just not interested. Doesn't make sense to me (except for short-term profits).
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#13One can only applaud this. You do wonder sometimes why companies spent so few $$ on relaxing office buildings. Looking into nature increases productivity and well-being; also there are a lot of findings on how to organize work floors for optimal collaboration etc. Most companies are just not interested. Doesn't make sense to me (except for short-term profits).
I was watching 'The Pixar Story' the other day and they talked about the campus they opened in 2000. Jobs talked about the importance of 'unplanned interactions' and workplace being key to the success of a creative company.
http://www.armchaircommentary.com/2011/10/amazon-goes-to-pix...
"Main Building
The Pixar campus opened in 2000. It was built on the location of an old canning factory and the factory vibe inspired the architecture. Steve Jobs, one of the Pixar founders was heavily involved in the design. He wanted Pixar's main building to serve as a central gathering place where employees would come several times a day to interact and share ideas. In service of this goal a cafeteria, coffee shop and the employee mail room were clustered within steps of each other within the atrium of the main building. Pixar lore is that Jobs was so obsessed with the idea of all employees venturing to this area at least once a day that he advocated for only having one bathroom on the campus. He was overruled."
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#14Apple ought to make these images available in resolutions suitable for desktop backgrounds...
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#15One can only applaud this. You do wonder sometimes why companies spent so few $$ on relaxing office buildings. Looking into nature increases productivity and well-being; also there are a lot of findings on how to organize work floors for optimal collaboration etc. Most companies are just not interested. Doesn't make sense to me (except for short-term profits).
I was watching 'The Pixar Story' the other day and they talked about the campus they opened in 2000. Jobs talked about the importance of 'unplanned interactions' and workplace being key to the success of a creative company. http://www.armchaircommentary.com/2011/10/amazon-goes-to-pix... "Main Building The Pixar campus opened in 2000. It was built on the location of an old canning factory and the factory vibe inspired…
For the curious, "The Pixar Story" is available on Netflix Instant
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Pixar_Story/70083532?t...
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#16The big PDFs aren't loading for me. Is the idea that the boxes on the bottom are the parking lots, and everyone needs to walk across the big field to get to the building? How far is that? Is there handicapped parking somewhere else?
There are 2 levels of parking underneath the main building.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/62205913/FloorPlan-Cross-Section
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#17Does someone have a mirror of the plans? The links in the article don't work for me because of the load.
Doesn't look like much has changed from http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/13/apples-new-headquarters/ which has links to scribed uploads.
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#18I wonder how the workspaces will be arranged; it seems like it might be tricky to mitigate glare on a glossy display with natural light coming in on all sides.
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#19One can only applaud this. You do wonder sometimes why companies spent so few $$ on relaxing office buildings. Looking into nature increases productivity and well-being; also there are a lot of findings on how to organize work floors for optimal collaboration etc. Most companies are just not interested. Doesn't make sense to me (except for short-term profits).
I am aware about the nature/well-being (I even read a study regarding sports performance), but I have no knowledge on the findings on how to organize work floors. Care to share some links? Thanks.
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#20It's interesting to look at these renderings in the context of the story from a couple of days ago about working out at the office (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3314922).
Treadmills in a conference room are certainly better than sitting all day. But instead of a treadmill, I'd rather just work in an office where I could go outside and take a walk. I hope more companies will start thinking about office design in the way that Apple has, even if they do it on a smaller scale.