New details of Apple's circular 'spaceship' HQ emerge

MailOnline ^ | 5 December 2014 | Mark Prigg

[dennisw]

New planning certificates reveal 120,000 square foot auditorium and 100,000 square foot fitness center Steve Jobs originally submitted the application for the Cupertino headquarters back in 2011 The campus will be a mile in circumference, feature glass walls and solar panels and cover 175 acres

Cars will be 'banished and buried' in an underground car park and tarmac will be replaced with greenery Glass walls the height of the building will slide open, and cafes and restaurants will help break up the vast scale More than 1,000 bikes will be kept on site to help staff make their way around the circular campus

Covering 175 acres with a radical round 'spaceship' design, keeping Apple's new HQ under wraps was always going to be tough task.

Newly issued planning permits have revealed details of two of its most impressive features - a giant $161m theatre and a $74m gym for staff.

While work on the building, set to open in 2016 continues apace, the details shed new light on exactly what will be inside the spaceship.

'Given how important Apple’s announcements have become in their product launches, and how large their global audience has become, it’s not surprising that Apple would invest this kind of money in an events center,' said BuildZoom, which uncovered the permits.

They reveal a 120,000 square foot auditorium and a 100,000 square foot fitness center.

'Our guess is that the new venue will create an even more magical atmosphere.

'Meanwhile, it will be easier to avoid mishaps such as the streaming fiasco that occurred at the iPhone 6 announcement'

The spaceship site is currently cordoned off to prevent photos, but several Apple fans have managed to get an aerial view of the building using a GoPro-equipped drone.

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[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

This is the classic corporate sign of the beginning of the end.

[Celtic Conservative]

I thought they dealt primarily with latex...

CC

[Fresh Wind]

Typical “Maserati Marxists”...

Speaking of which, when Apple board member Algore's son was released from jail after a pot bust, he was picked up and driven away in a Maserati supposedly belonging to his sister.

[a fool in paradise]

"He who rules the skies, rules the marketplace!"

[Ken H]

'You may dispense with the pleasantries Commander. I'm here to get you back on schedule.'

[harpu]

Hmmmm...I wonder if Stevie Jobs knew that his suckcessor, Timmy Cook, has added a San Francisco styled ‘bathhouse’ to the plans?!?

[CodeToad]

For being a liberal all about “energy”, Jobs sure is blowing loads more of it than any other corporate office would normally consume to build.

Liberals are stupid this way: Prius-pollutes the planet far more than a Hummer but because the liberal doesn’t see it then it doesn’t count as pollution.

[ThunderSleeps]

I would tend to agree. When the higher ups in an organization focus more on their titles, creature comforts, status symbols, etc. and less on the productivity and happiness of the people actually doing the work... Not a good thing. That will only come out (here) if/when details of the internals get leaked. Who knows, maybe the exec offices are the windowless internal spaces and the creative types and engineers get the most & best spaces. But somehow I doubt it.

Interesting architecture but... It does look like a big 0... Wasn't it Apple themselves that helped pioneer the 1 and 0 superimposed as the on/off indicator/control? Zero being off... Not a good omen.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Apparently, the only visible part is above-ground...

[Regulator]

Just great.

I didnt buy a damn house down the street from this back in 97 becuz i wasnt sure if it was worth it...for 350k.

Just damn great.

[dennisw]

Sounds like it would make a great bunkhouse for 35 H1B slave coders from India

[dfwgator]

[Regulator]

You apparently understand the game there

My current neighbor is the lone gringo in his test group at Apple, tells me everyone else is from India

[tophat9000]

The Onmigon

[mowowie]

My heart flutters....

[dennisw]

Just think of the United States as an economic zone, not as a nation. A free trade zone that international labor can come and go from as it pleases. Within this zone we have the elites and money masters living in gated communities and other living arrangements that keep them beyond the reach of the peasantry.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

What will be at the center ...

Gary Coleman?

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sphincter

[Regulator]

Yup. That is how they conceive of it.

All protected by a mercenary armed force.

Jefferson warned against a standing army. He knew the aristocratic class always ended up using it to keep the serf class in line...

[minnesota_bound]

Too much glass, too corporate. Needs a redesign : )