Apple's new HQ is $2 billion overbudget due to Steve Jobs' incredibly detailed and perfectionist des - Polidicks

[QUOTE=person11;40185678]With 137 billion dollars, Apple should make 5 of these all around the world, and connect them using underground tunnels, or finance a trip to Mars.[/QUOTE] Tunnel straight through the core of earth.[I] "the lava is not a bug, it's a feature"[/I]

[QUOTE=JgcxCub;40183668]Aren't the mass production of solar panels really damaging for the environment?[/QUOTE] Yeah, but think of all that delicious PR from being "eco-friendly"!

It's a big metal doughnut with an expensive wood filling and covered in solar panels. How is this some amazing feat of architecture?

[QUOTE=Van-man;40185660]architects being allowed to go buckwild, and then given full authority over a team of building engineers to be their minions and do their exact bidding.[/QUOTE] Yep that sounds like Apple. [img]http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/yAywo-580x281.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;40185820]It's a big metal doughnut with an expensive wood filling and covered in solar panels. How is this some amazing feat of architecture?[/QUOTE] Because it's four storeys tall and fat as hell. [editline];[/editline] If it was a person, it'd have an IV drip of lard going straight into its arse.

[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;40185820]It's a big metal doughnut with an expensive wood filling and covered in solar panels. How is this some amazing feat of architecture?[/QUOTE] do you know nothing about architecture it's a lot more complex than "metal doughnut rofl"

[QUOTE=Van-man;40185745]Tunnel straight through the core of earth.[I] "the lava is not a bug, it's a feature"[/I][/QUOTE] They can even have their own volcanoes too. [editline]6th April 2013[/editline] Seriously though, fuck having to walk to the other side to get something.

I am surprised they don't have Hives like Umbrella

Wow, only using the heartwood of specific species of maple. How fucking wasteful can you be. Steve Jobs I'm glad you're dead you old, environment hating prick.

[QUOTE=draugur;40186081]Wow, only using the heartwood of specific species of maple. How fucking wasteful can you be. Steve Jobs I'm glad you're dead you old, environment hating prick.[/QUOTE] What a brilliant post, a++

[QUOTE=draugur;40186081]Wow, only using the heartwood of specific species of maple. How fucking wasteful can you be. Steve Jobs I'm glad you're dead you old, environment hating prick.[/QUOTE] Maybe they chose trees that are not prone to be infected with various diseases & infections, and also is found naturally in the surrounding forests?

[QUOTE=TheAdmiester;40184155]I like how this topic has turned from a building and its design to the stability of Flash and Android just because the building is envisioned by Apple.[/QUOTE] Insecurity.

[QUOTE=Zally13;40185863]do you know nothing about architecture it's a lot more complex than "metal doughnut rofl"[/QUOTE] Enlighten me, everyone seems to be masturbating over this and I can't understand why. Yeah you can do some big things when you have a larger amount of money than most countries but I can't see anything special about this besides how expensive and large it is.

[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;40188352]Enlighten me, everyone seems to be masturbating over this and I can't understand why. Yeah you can do some big things when you have a larger amount of money than most countries but I can't see anything special about this besides how expensive and large it is.[/QUOTE] [url]https://www.google.ca/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=apple+new+headquarters+design&oq=apple+new+headquarters+design&gs_l=hp.3..0i22i30l3.5104.8807.1.8912.24.14.1.8.8.1.334.1846.4j7j1j1.13.0...0.0...1c.1.8.psy-ab.9bJSSsnSxnE&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.44770516,d.b2I&fp=92e5dddae154a003&biw=1277&bih=628[/url] Let me know if there's anything else you're too lazy to do.

[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;40185604]what? you're fucking terrible [editline]6th April 2013[/editline] the building looks awesome, though it's fucking uneconomically large jesus christ[/QUOTE] There's so much perfectionism and OCD in that building that I'm pretty sure that if you nick a surface it will start bleeding out and you'll need a hazmat team to clean it up.

[QUOTE=Van-man;40183917]Still no good way to port flash content to HTML5, so it's gonna stick around for a few more years[/QUOTE] You can blame Adobe for that (and for Flash too), they've been working on having the Flash authoring app export to standard HTML for a while. Adobe killed mobile Flash back in 2011, and removed it from the Play store for Android last year, so at this point it'd only be OEMs shipping old binaries, not something a developer would want to target.

As an Architecture student, I say this: The planning that went into this goddamn thing is fucking [b]INSANE[/b]. No wonder so many people were left speechless. That being said, in regards to the way the building is powered and controlled? This is the way buildings should be designed if we want to fucking save our asses and prevent global climate change from getting even worse. It's self-sufficient down to the last screw and bolt. It's insane and wonderful at the same time.

Something about that building just rubs me the wrong way. Yes, I already don't like Apple, but... That thing looks like it shouldn't exist. Jobs' obsession with perfection frightens me sometimes; there's... There's no [i]reason[/i] to have a building that geometrically perfect! There's not even any functional advantage, it's like he's trying to build it to summon something! [QUOTE=Scot;40184169]$2 billion is nothing to Apple. The previously stated that they literally have so much money they don't know what to do with it.[/QUOTE] Hmph, I've got an idea: donate it like Bill Gates did. Or perhaps lower their friggin' prices. I doubt Apple needs to even break even to be fine for [i]decades.[/i]

[img]http://3nonetwo.com/zpers/images/iTronHQ.jpg[/img]

I'm not fond at all of Apple's products or even their way of conducting business, but I'm not gonna lie, that's one sexy looking building.

[QUOTE=Scot;40184169]$2 billion is nothing to Apple. The previously stated that they literally have so much money they don't know what to do with it.[/QUOTE] God forbid they do something worth-while like, I dunno, donate it to cancer/AIDS research.

Even though 137 billion dollars could solve all the world's problems (not really, but close), a corporation is designed and purposed to make as much money as possible and nothing more, and has no obligation to do charity work (even though I would love to see it happen).

They should have a tram system which goes around the inside, so if you wanted to get to the other side, you hop on the tram (a... roundavator?) and it takes you round the ring.

[QUOTE=barttool;40184306]Now watch as Apple squanders all of its profits in building this thing and they go bankrupt before it's even finished.[/QUOTE] good guess!!!!

[QUOTE=thomasfn;40191686]They should have a tram system which goes around the inside, so if you wanted to get to the other side, you hop on the tram (a... roundavator?) and it takes you round the ring.[/QUOTE] I reckon they'd already have something like that planned. [editline]7th April 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Zero-Point;40191598]God forbid they do something worth-while like, I dunno, donate it to cancer/AIDS research.[/QUOTE] They have no obligation to. But hell one could even argue that as they outsource most (if not all) of their production to China that they are already helping improve the living standards over there, so they are already doing a kind of "charity" work.

[quote]Meanwhile, $1 billion is still less than 1 percent of Apple’s $137 billion in cash reserves.[/quote] AAAHAHHAHHHHAHHA they're fuckin RICH they could litterally build 20 of these things

[QUOTE=smurfy;40183614]- 6 square kilometers of curved glass manufactured by Seele in Germany using specialized processes to prevent clouding or distortions. Seele has doubled the size of its production facility to accommodate the project. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=smurfy;40183614]Seele[/QUOTE] For a moment i thought it was THIS Seele: [img]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120825191940/evangelion/images/thumb/4/4f/SEELE_Logo_%28NGE%29.png/200px-SEELE_Logo_%28NGE%29.png[/img]

This isn't a mere office building or it wasn't intended to be.. Job's had plans.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40192258]This isn't a mere office building or it wasn't intended to be.. Job's had plans.[/QUOTE]Maybe it'll be like the urban legends about Walt Disney, with Steve Jobs' body kept in storage in it.

[QUOTE=Maestro Fenix;40192246]For a moment i thought it was THIS Seele: [img]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120825191940/evangelion/images/thumb/4/4f/SEELE_Logo_%28NGE%29.png/200px-SEELE_Logo_%28NGE%29.png[/img][/QUOTE] The Ieva, coming soon!