“What ‘Apple Park’ lacks in branding pizazz, it makes up for in architectural oomph,” Evan Dashevsky reports for PC Magazine. “The campus was a passion project conceived by Steve Jobs during his final years and is truly a work of high-end structural engineering.”
Here are some of the coolest facts about the new complex:
• Once the dust settles, the total cost of the campus is expected to be about $5 billion.
• Once fully operational, the campus will house up to 12,000 employees.
• The Park’s inner courtyard will be home to a 30-acre green space complete with mini fruit orchards including apricot, olive, and apple trees… [and] will also host an herb garden and pond.
• Parking is built both underground and in two large parking structures accommodating approximately 14,200 employees.
• The campus’s ring-shaped main building will cover 2.8 million square feet. That’s about 49 standard football fields.
Ten more Apple Park facts in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Just get in there already and start focusing on the core businesses (i.e. Macintosh) again!
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The Mac is dead. Writing is on the wall folks. Apple has other plans. Sure they will have an “update” to the iMac and Mac Pro stuff but it’s essentially over.
We see posts like yours all of the time. It is like Eeyore has taken over the MDN forums. Believe what you want for whatever reasons you want. Don’t expect the rest of us to buy into your doom-and-gloom. When human nature is involved, a contrarian approach often works fairly well because things are seldom as bad, or as good, as people tend to believe. So, given the massive flood of negativity on this forum, I can only assume that Apple is about to announce anti-gravity and warp drive!
Life goes in cycles. Conventional wisdom is often lacking in wisdom. Growth has finite limits. Innovation does not subscribe to a schedule. And lighting sometimes does strike twice in the same location.
“The Park’s inner courtyard will be home to a 30-acre green space complete with mini fruit orchards including apricot, olive, and apple trees… [and] will also host an herb garden and pond.”
What about the friggin BBQ’s? LOL
Apple Campus is in nutty liberal California! They only eat nuts, fruits and vegetables! Don’t question it because you will get attacked!
As if you know anything about California. I’;ll tell you what. If you don’t like fruits and nuts… stay in whatever shithole red state you crawled out from.
I’m guessing you come from the steers and queers (apologies to queers) state then. And we all know what state that is.
The center of the Spaceship court will be a Headstone with the following inscription:
Here lies the Macintosh
1984-2017
Died of neglect at the hands of fashion obsessed fools.
Oh, boo frigging hoo…quit yer bellyaching and either wait for Apple to deliver or move on.
Then rush on down and buy an overpriced, underpowered and sealed shut fashion statement from Jony
Don’t underestimate Apple. Right now they’re working on a MacPro that will change the industry.
To be released when they have the proper announcement venue……
They always underpromise and over-deliver.
Hope that the round shape works better for the office building than it did for the Mac Pro.
Now that is kinda funny!
Sounds like a great place to head to when the zombie apocalypse hits.
With all of that glass??? The walled-in prison worked a lot better.
Most of the time when a corporation builds a humongous architectural effity to honor itself, that structure signifies the beginning of the corporation’s decline.
The US Pentagon can fit in the central park of Apple’s spaceship ring HQ.
Apple Mothership Robot Warz Arena
(Seating capacity 2100)