Wonder what magnitude earthquake it can withstand. This is earthquake country after all.
Really, it puzzles me that this sort of construction was even permitted, I can't imagine load bearing glass holding up well at all in an earthquake. Especially the theater entrance where there appears to be no supplemental support at all. I can see the roof there coming down on people with massive pancakeing effect.
I can see a total collapse if a meteor strikes the building and makes a giant crater. So what's your point?
Are you a structural engineer? The architects would obviously have factored earthquake issues since it is being built in earthquake-prone California.
So unless your degree in structural-engineering is something not from the Internet University of Sofa Experts, I'll trust the actual architect engineers instead.
Really, it puzzles me that this sort of construction was even permitted, I can't imagine load bearing glass holding up well at all in an earthquake. Especially the theater entrance where there appears to be no supplemental support at all. I can see the roof there coming down on people with massive pancakeing effect.
Furthermore, the south bay is bedrock... it does not shake as bad as you might think. During the Loma-Prieta quake in '89, the one that brought down the I-880 Cypress Viaduct across the bay from S.F., not even a plate fell off the shelf at my home in San Jose. Which was much, much closer to the epicenter.
I'm sure you know, but it also depends on the direction of the wave front relative to your house. Our house had more movement of things in cabinets on the north wall than things in cabinets on the east or west side.
I'm sure the building will win many design awards. Good for them. Other than realizing Steve Jobs dream, it's probably a boondoggle to create such a massive structure out of glass. That only my uninformed point of view. I guess I could look at the pyramids of Egypt in the same way. I hope the campus stands as long as the pyramids at Giza. Glass structures reflect Apple's way of thinking. I hope the campus works out well for a long time and that earthquakes won't destroy it within a few years.
Interesting point. Apple's design aesthetic would surely not envision cleaners suspended outside (or inside) daily, cleaning windows. Robotic systems operating exclusively at night anyone?
Wonder what magnitude earthquake it can withstand. This is earthquake country after all.
Really, it puzzles me that this sort of construction was even permitted, I can't imagine load bearing glass holding up well at all in an earthquake. Especially the theater entrance where there appears to be no supplemental support at all. I can see the roof there coming down on people with massive pancakeing effect.
What most people don't realize is that the entire spaceship is mounted on ball bearings that separate concave plates attached to both the ground and the building. When there is an earthquake the building floats (basically moves very slightly) through the tremors and the weight of the entire building moves it back to the proper location (deepest part of the curves) after the land movement stops. It's really quite ingenious. If you go back and look at the aerial photography of the building when the structure was just starting, the plates are very obvious (there are hundreds of them).
Wonder what magnitude earthquake it can withstand. This is earthquake country after all.
Really, it puzzles me that this sort of construction was even permitted, I can't imagine load bearing glass holding up well at all in an earthquake. Especially the theater entrance where there appears to be no supplemental support at all. I can see the roof there coming down on people with massive pancakeing effect.
IIRC, there was a story earlier on AI that talked about the installation process, which had some kind of a buffer/ dampner where the glass was installed, so it could move in a controlled space in the event of an earthquake.
Of course, you'd make the assumption that Apple just started building and California doesn't have any regulations on constructions.
Please hire fact checkers, firstly the Chinese store referenced in this article is in Shanghai's Pudong district not Beijing. Secondly there's a picture of the Covent Garden store in an article referring to German glass however the Covent Garden store is an English Heritage building, the glass in that store is sourced from England and not Germany.
Glass and aluminum, thats always the answer when you ask an architect about 'design'. The other thing is that outside must be in and the other way around, and every 'architect' thinks he is creating art. We will see how practical the building is in the future ...
Interesting point. Apple's design aesthetic would surely not envision cleaners suspended outside (or inside) daily, cleaning windows. Robotic systems operating exclusively at night anyone?
Cleaning is almost never considered in advance and the solutions are building shaking monsters.
A religious monument to greed and gluttony of a behemoth corporation.
Sedak glass. I didn't see any mention of the rich Corinthian leather office chairs for the employees or the gold washroom faucet handles.
Let's all hope the iCar is a big success. Because the smartphone is flattening off, none of the other products are growing, and all it takes is a few bad quarters for Wall Street to turn on you, and all those windows build up dirt pretty darn fast.
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sedak is another company of the founders Seele & Goßner.
Thanks for a good article DED.
IIRC, there was a story earlier on AI that talked about the installation process, which had some kind of a buffer/ dampner where the glass was installed, so it could move in a controlled space in the event of an earthquake.
Of course, you'd make the assumption that Apple just started building and California doesn't have any regulations on constructions.
The other thing is that outside must be in and the other way around, and every 'architect' thinks he is creating art.
We will see how practical the building is in the future ...
Sedak glass. I didn't see any mention of the rich Corinthian leather office chairs for the employees or the gold washroom faucet handles.
Let's all hope the iCar is a big success. Because the smartphone is flattening off, none of the other products are growing, and all it takes is a few bad quarters for Wall Street to turn on you, and all those windows build up dirt pretty darn fast.