New architectural renderings reveal more details of Apple's future 'spaceship' campus
More images of Apple's Campus 2 project have emerged from Cupertino, providing a closer look at the environment inside the main building and showing off some details that have not been seen before.
The most stunning addition to this set of renderings is the entrance to the underground road network, which is lit around the top edge and appears to have fully embraced the 'spaceship' spirit of the new facility.
The Spaceship
The interior of the main building appears to take many of its styling cues from Apple retail stores, with light-colored stone lining the walls and glass railings that feature no visible metal supports. The three-level cafeteria --?with massive steel columns and floor-to-ceiling windows -- sports tables and benches like those used to display products in the retail spaces, while the outdoor dining area is outfitted with what appears to be cedar or redwood furniture. The images are provided by the City of Cupertino and were first collected by Wired.Transit Center & Infrastructure
The Corporate Transit Center, where employees who commute on Apple's private bus fleet will arrive and depart, is set on the first subterranean floor of the main building. The exterior features large, stark white staircases leading up to the ground floor and the interior is depicted with rows of benches for workers awaiting the next bus.The most stunning addition to this set of renderings is the entrance to the underground road network, which is lit around the top edge and appears to have fully embraced the 'spaceship' spirit of the new facility.
Outbuildings
Several outbuildings --?including a visitor center and the famous underground auditorium --?are shown with similar steel roofs which appear to float on 360-degree walls of glass. The corporate fitness center is also pictured, keeping the glass walls and stone interior of its siblings but eschewing the steel roof in favor of what appears to be wood or stone.Grounds
Steve Jobs's desire to "bring California back to Cupertino" appears to have been well understood by the architectural team. Rows of cherry trees can be seen in some images, while others show olive arbors and other native flora dotting large swaths of rolling grassland.
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That looks just amazing. It's going to be one of the most amazing places to work in the world.
Wow.
Check mate Google!
I nitpick because I can - I hope they don't put large images of iPads in the transit zone or anywhere else for that matter. Advertising their own products to their own employees would just be lazy and a little off-putting. Sponsor some nice art instead.
Is this going to be a closed facility. Apple should think about opening up to the public in making a destination tourist attraction. I bet people would flock from around the world to see the Jobs Mecca. And in the center of this ring they could have a 40 foot statue of Steve Jobs.
The article states there is going to be a visitor center
They could put up images of their competitors products as a good laugh for the employees.
I hope my now 2 y.o. child will work there!
Nice.
I hope my now 2 y.o. child will work there!
Next year s/he can get a job assembling Apple products in China; small hands are a real asset. Sorry, couldn't resist.
There are some weird outbuildings in some of those pictures. What's the empty round one for? Is that the entrance to the underground auditorium?
Next year s/he can get a job assembling Apple products in China; small hands are a real asset. Sorry, couldn't resist.
There are some weird outbuildings in some of those pictures. What's the empty round one for? Is that the entrance to the underground auditorium?
It has to be. It looks cool. DAMN cool!
APPLEOCALYPSE!
It looks wonderful. I hope all those amenities can compensate for the mental strain of working in a giant corporate environment.
Steve loved minimalism but loved Italian minimalism. These renderings hide that fact.
Now, about throwing stones...
Do you think they're already getting offers to shoot a movie in that space? It will happen one day. I'm sure of it.
You're either mentally fit to be a rat in a maze or you're not... they let you sort yourself out if you're not... That's why you don't see any jump nets in the photos.
I agree. We also have an intruder alert here; there's a guy wearing a suit, with tie and all.
It looks wonderful. I hope all those amenities can compensate for the mental strain of working in a giant corporate environment.
We all work in a giant environment. The company is called 'life' and we just work for small individually named departments within it.
I don't think it should cause any exceptional strain working for a 'giant corporation'. You work in your own particular subset of it just like you exist in your own particular subset of humanity. Social mobility in life is mirrored in employment mobility within the corporation. Do employees of governments feel exceptionally strained or do they just see their boundaries within their own department or physical location and not think much outside it?