Love It or Hate It The Spaceship Has Landed – How Apple Built a Campus Shaped Like a Mac-Pro
Posted: September 8, 2017 Filed under: Architecture, More FC3 | Tags: Apple, Architect, Architecture, CA, Campus, Campus Architect, Construction, Cupertino, Design, DesignAllDayAndAllNight, designmatters, FC3, green, NJIT, School of Architecture, Silicone Valley, Solar, Spaceship, STEM, Technology Leave a commentApple Park
The entire front of the main building features iconic curved glass windows, letting employees look out at the rest of the campus, which will be covered in greenery and an orchard. Along with the primary building that will house 13,000 employees, there’s an underground auditorium for hosting events, a fitness center, a cafe, and a visitor’s center. Underground parking is available, and there are also two research and development facilities located nearby.
Apple Park was designed by late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in partnership with Norman Foster.
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At its October 15, 2013 adjourned regular meeting, the Cupertino City Council approved the Apple Park project.
Most of the 175 acre area is located on the former Hewlett Packard (HP) campus and is bounded by I-280 to the south, Wolfe Road to the west, Homestead Road to the north and North Tantau Avenue to the east. The replacement and rebuild proposal includes:
- Demolition of approximately 2.65 million square feet of existing office, research and development buildings;
- Construction of:
- An office, research and development building comprising approximately 2.8 million square feet;
- A 1,000 seat corporate auditorium;
- A corporate fitness center;
- A central plant;
- Research facilities comprising up to 600,000 square feet located east and west of Tantau Avenue between Pruneridge Ave and I-280;
- Associated parking
The City’s Review consisted of:
- Environmental Impact Assessment (including traffic, noise, air quality, etc.)
- Public hearings
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Frank
Apple One
Posted: October 8, 2011 Filed under: More FC3, Video | Tags: 1976, Apple, Creativity, History, Innovation, Mac, Macintosh, Silicone Valley, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Think Different, Wikipedia, youtube 1 CommentInnovation takes time.
The original Apple Computer, also known retroactively as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a personal computer released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976. They were designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. Wozniak’s friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer. The Apple I was Apple‘s first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his only means of transportation, a VW van. It was demonstrated in April 1976 at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California.
The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 at a price of US $666.66, because Wozniak liked repeating digits and because they originally sold it to a local shop for $500 and added a one-third markup. About 200 units were produced. Unlike other hobbyist computers of its day, which were sold as kits, the Apple I was a fully assembled circuit board containing about 60+ chips. However, to make a working computer, users still had to add a case, power supply transformers, power switch, ASCII keyboard, and composite video display. An optional board providing a cassette interface for storage was later released at a cost of $75.
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Apple 1 - Museum of American History, Washington DC
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Apple's Product Timeline (Unidentified Source)
It’s OK to Think Different
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