The concept looks neat. I wonder how well it would be executed if approved?

Will there be anyone to clean the telephones?

It needs a dome over it... Bubble Trouble etc.

Xander Crews: Will there be anyone to clean the telephones?

Of course. This is the B-arc, going ahead to make sure the new world has clean telephones and properly marketed computer devices for the rest of us.

/I was expecting something fractal
//Where every office has a window

That's only the bottom ring. Here's what it will look like when finished:

All paid for by the misery of teenage Chinese girls.

What Apple employees working in the Bio Appledome might look like.

It really doesn't surprise me that Apple would like to build a fantastic employee oriented building. It will attract and retain talent in an increasing competitive environment for the best engineers in the world.

TheOnion: Awesome. Too bad he didn't spring from the best one.

to be fair, Forest Arcologies aren't supposed to be available until 2050 and the others until 2100 IIRC.

Harry_Seldon: It really doesn't surprise me that Apple would like to build a fantastic employee oriented building. It will attract and retain talent in an increasing competitive environment for the best engineers in the world.

But no free wifi for Cupertino, so f*ck Apple.

Is it just me or is Jobs starting to sound like Trump?

/Except for the retarded political junk

Hender: But no free wifi for Cupertino, so f*ck Apple.

I love his reply to that question, paraphrased,. "We pay taxes, and we employ smart people who get paid well. That's all you get."

Any other developer putting 12,000 people and a huge parking garage in one spot is usually required to at least improve the immediate infrastructure and intersections around the facility, to mitigate the impact to the surrounding public of their development.

Harry_Seldon: It really doesn't surprise me that Apple would like to build a fantastic employee oriented building. It will attract and retain talent in an increasing competitive environment for the best engineers in the world.

THIS.

having been to Intel, Google, and Microsoft headquarters I'm really trying to find a real reason why I want to work in any of those places
//same boring dot com shiat over and over
///this is actually a lot more interesting and kewl

EngineerAU: Is it just me or is Jobs starting to sound like Trump?

/Except for the retarded political junk

Jobs has a presentation pattern that I personally find annoying. The council folks ate it up a live. But unlike Trump Jobs provides actual value.

/wrote a paper on Jobs in 1990
//he was an asshole then - and he is now but at least he has a soul

Harry_Seldon: All paid for by the misery of teenage Chinese girls.

So... just like every other piece of electronics I own.

/ I have a job which is miserable
// But not as miserable as not having a job

bravian: having been to Intel, Google, and Microsoft headquarters I'm really trying to find a real reason why I want to work in any of those places
//same boring dot com shiat over and over
///this is actually a lot more interesting and kewl

It's a 3 letter word, starts with J and ends with B, rhymes with "Snob".

MrSteve007: Hender: But no free wifi for Cupertino, so f*ck Apple.

I love his reply to that question, paraphrased,. "We pay taxes, and we employ smart people who get paid well. That's all you get."

Any other developer putting 12,000 people and a huge parking garage in one spot is usually required to at least improve the immediate infrastructure and intersections around the facility, to mitigate the impact to the surrounding public of their development.

And being the largest taxpayer in the city, maybe the whole state doesn't count? Not saying they couldn't do more if they wanted to, but asking for a tradeoff is sketchy.

MrSteve007: Hender: But no free wifi for Cupertino, so f*ck Apple.

I love his reply to that question, paraphrased,. "We pay taxes, and we employ smart people who get paid well. That's all you get."

Any other developer putting 12,000 people and a huge parking garage in one spot is usually required to at least improve the immediate infrastructure and intersections around the facility, to mitigate the impact to the surrounding public of their development.

Any other developer dangling the possibility a very well-paid workforce of 12,000 would be offered tax and development incentives, not demands that the business pay into some traffic mitigation or such.

Not that that's how I'd run the world if I were dictator, but that's the way it is. On the plus side, Silicon Valley / Cupertino probably wouldn't notice the 12,000. (I have no idea about the exact location of this proposal, but I think they'll be able to handle it.)

The whole thing is designed to conceal a giant cyclotron. He's going to open a super amazing hole to another world.

lol at the suggestion that Apple should supply free wifi to Cupertino, like some everlasting city-wide handjob.

The building looks like its going to enforce a blockade on Naboo.

Approves

Coincidence? I think not.

Anaxphone: That's only the bottom ring. Here's what it will look like when finished:

Came here to see this, leaving satisfied.

/Will these take off into space if Jobs builds enough of them?

Are they going to be living there or just working there? I don't think it'd be much of a leap for Jobs to turn the place into a full corporate arcology, which could be a worry...

/might have been playing a bit too much Shadowrun

Shedim: I don't think it'd be much of a leap for Jobs to turn the place into a full corporate arcology, which could be a worry...

Don't worry. I hear Jobs is working on a new OS for running the place. I think they call it iDeus.

Where's the satire tag? Off giving Jobs a beej?

If the thing ever gets made it better have a courtyard to cross through to the other side easier. Even in normal buildings it always seems like the person you have to meet with is on the completely opposite side of the place.

I still have to give him props for actually showing up to the meeting. He could have easily sent the summer intern or any number of other people involved with the project. Instead the CEO of a Forture 50 company shows up to a town hall meeting to discuss the new building they're building.

And regardless of what company is building this (and peoples opinions of that company) this actually looks like a pretty cool 'green' endeavor. Less wasted space on parking, more trees, less energy consumption. I wish more companies thought like this.
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bravian: having been to Intel, Google, and Microsoft headquarters I'm really trying to find a real reason why I want to work in any of those places
//same boring dot com shiat over and over

? I thought google's HQ was pretty awesome: http://scodal.com/view.php?inside-google-headquarters.html

Will it secretly contain a super collider?

It's a cool building. But I'd be concerned about Steve jobs' comment about there "isn't one piece of flat glass." It's all curved glass. Which is swoopy and cool...

...until some guy sits at his cubicle and the sun hits the glass at just the right way, and he bursts into flame because the glass acts like a giant magnifying glass.

snowshovel: It's a cool building. But I'd be concerned about Steve jobs' comment about there "isn't one piece of flat glass." It's all curved glass. Which is swoopy and cool...

...until some guy sits at his cubicle and the sun hits the glass at just the right way, and he bursts into flame because the glass acts like a giant magnifying glass.

Lucky for the cubicle sitting guy that focusing light doesn't work that way.

DjangoStonereaver: Fark It: Steve Jobs would make a great Bond villain.

Larry Ellison Is already one.

Oh, you work for them too?

/recent acquisition
//oh the suckage

FTFA: ... where Jobs got one of his first summer jobs...

They just divided by zero.

Looking at the Office park it's slated to replace, I assume that it will have a massive (>5000 -car) parking structure underneath. While it's neat to see this kind of thing, it's still massive superblocking. I can't get this west-coast thing. Boston and New York get a whole vibrancy thing going with buildings taller than three or four stories, and intense use and cross-use of ground-floor structures. They give more opportunities for more economic activity to more people.

Who wants to live in a massive city 600 miles wide and three stories high?

The owner of those apartment buildings has got to be licking his chops. Both for the near-term high-priced rentals to Apple employees and the ever increasing future value of the land. Probably a good move not to sell yet.

It looks like something Tony Stark would build in a cave from scraps!