Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Steve Jobs Reveals Apple's New Campus

Engadget writes Steve Jobs reveals Apple's new spaceship campus, calls it the 'best office building in the world'. "Shortly after taking the stage at WWDC, Steve Jobs made an appearance before the Cupertino City Council to pitch the local governing body on Apple's ambition to build a new campus. The site for the curvaceous, four-story, "human-scale" building to house 13,000 employees is the original home of HP's computer systems division, land that was recently sold to Apple. The property is currently covered by a series of big asphalt parking lots. Apple's plan would increase the landscape coverage from 20 to 80 percent with the help of a senior arborist from Stanford who will help restore some of the indigenous plant life to the property, including the apricot orchards. Apple plans to make the campus' energy center the facility's primary power generator using natural gas and other "clean energy" sources -- the city would simply provide backup power when needed."

Here's the video of the presentation. It's pretty embarrassing watching the city council fawn all over him, but the building is really impressive.


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