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Apple vows to build 'best office building in the whole world'
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
June 9th, 2011
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
June 9th, 2011
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
According to Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, Apple is bound
and determined to build the best office building in the world. The
building will be a circular "spaceship" structure in Apple's hometown of
Cupertino, California and will hold 12,000 employees.
"It's a little like a spaceship landed," Jobs said, depicting a four-story, circular building with a massive interior courtyard on a 150-acre piece of landscaped land.
"There is not a straight piece of glass in the building," Jobs beamed. "We know how to make the biggest pieces of glass in the world for architectural use."
Apple has grown "like a weed" Jobs said, and needs a place to put its estimated 12,000 people. The huge, new structure would be in addition to the main campus at 1 Infinite Loop.
"That's rather odd, 12,000 people in a building, in one building. But we've seen these office parks with lots of buildings, and they get pretty boring pretty fast, so we'd like to do something better than that," he said.
"I do think we have a shot at building the best office building in the world," he added.
Jobs avoided a request to give free Wi-Fi to Cupertino from city council members. Furthermore, Jobs argued that the increase in workers at the site would not be significant enough to require any traffic mitigation efforts.
Landscaping will include trees, native plants and apricot orchards, a throwback to the agricultural heritage of Silicon Valley when Jobs was growing up.
Apple bought most of the land from Hewlett Packard Co., where Jobs got one of his first summer jobs after calling up his idol and HP founder Bill Hewlett, to ask for spare parts. Hewlett and Packard bought the main parcel, he said.