Get a Sneak Peek of Apple‘s Proposed ’Spaceship’ Headquarters in Calif.
- Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:07pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave a presentation to the Cupertino City Council yesterday about his company’s new proposed headquarters. And would you believe that he described it as a “spaceship?” He did. And the pictures show he’s not that far off.
It looks like “a spaceship just landed there,” Jobs told the council, according to Business Insider.
BI has some details of the building, which Jobs said will hold 12,000 people and is circular with “not a straight piece of glass:”
- The campus would use its own natural gas generator as its primary source of power and the city’s power grid only as a backup. Weird.
- The building includes an auditorium for conferences, and Jobs suggests that’s where Apple could hold its big events instead of renting out space in San Francisco.
- Apple wants to break ground next year, and move in in 2015.
The outlet also put together a slideshow of Job’s presentation that shows what the sprawling facility will look like:
Below is the video of Jobs’s pitch to the city council (the slideshow starts around the five minute mark):
NBCBayArea.com has a transcript of Jobs’s opening remarks.
For more pictures, visit Business Insider.
(HT: Drudge)
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Comments (81)
jc1776
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:46pmApple is a company that produces products & offers services people want. I wish them well with their ugly building. They are paying for it themselves to me that is the most beautiful part.
Report Post »Bill me later
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:29pmIf you want to drive them nuts , tell them to go piss in the corner.
Report Post »MichiganPatriot
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:13pmAre the contractors who are building the new office American contractors or are we letting the 3rd world countries come here and build for us because we are above manual labor now? Just sayin!
Report Post »Notsureishoulddothis
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:03pmBoy, some of you Blaze folks sure are cranky. If you don’t work there or live there, what do you care what it looks like? It’s being built by a private company with the profit *gasp* they made by selling a product millions of people want to buy. Cupertino wins with tax revenue. If you don’t like Apple, don’t buy one. Lots of people do and they buy them. Last time I checked this is called capitalism. Yes, the country‘s collapsing but that isn’t the fault of Apple’s new building. Go outside and play. Get some sunshine. You’ll feel better.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:38pmYou almost had a good post there, leave out the condescension and your post will be readable.
Report Post »Ben
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:56pmThese comments are awful. Everyone complains that Apple’s products are made in China. Name ONE computer company that manufactures their products in the USA!
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:16pm@BEn
Report Post »I am surprised so many like apple due to its enormous profit margin. Larger than some big oil co’s out there.
With that being said, why is big oil sooo evil and apple’s success so great.
lketchum
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:45pmMine does. Right here in the USA.
Report Post »Notsureishoulddothis
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:51pmPosted on June 8, 2011 at 1:28pm
Could you imagine going in the wrong direction and having to walk all the way around to get to a nearby office? :-)
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Women could do it easily – it‘s just like Macy’s
Report Post »PatriotSmith
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:16pmhey what every floats their boat
Report Post »cntrlfrk
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:12pmKinda different, but doesn’t seem very practical.
How do you get from one side to the other?
Is there parking all the way around, or do you have to walk 1/2 mile to get around to your office?
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:18pmProbably Segways or skateboards, bikes.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:56pmAnd maybe unicorns too.!?!?…
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:55pmHow many kidneys will be sold to fund this freaky bath house.
Report Post »goodgrubguy
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:47pmBest looking office building I’ve ever seen.
Report Post »OneBadAssMistakeAmerica
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:44pmyeah whats more important this spaceship or our economy.
Report Post »good way to waste more of our tax dollars.
mossbrain
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:16pmEver hear of a $26,000 shower curtain and a matching $6,000 wastebasket? Ever hear about all the people who lost the pensions that they’d spent a lifetime accruing?
Ya think either Ken Lay or Dennis Koszlowski were Republicans?
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:44pmIf Apple is building it how is it wasting tax dollars? The jobs will create more tax revenue after this building is staffed.
Report Post »coshively
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:57pmWow seriously? Its apples money building it not the tax payers. Hope you are joking
Report Post »KeithOlberdink
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:43pmThey still make a lousy product made by slave labor. My apple sticker is underneath my toilet bowl lid where it belongs.
Report Post »Charlie Justice
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:41pmSince you’re going all out and unorthodox then why not just shape the building like the apple logo?
Report Post »STEEZYD
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:37pmSince when did apple move to china?
Report Post »fragglerk
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:37pmNot a staright person working there either…. it’s a joke folks!
Report Post »STEEZYD
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:35pmWhen did apple move to china?
Report Post »joex51
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:45pmI don’t Know about them Being in Chine as much as they use a company named Foxconn that practically treats it employees worse than slaves, so much so the workers would jump off the building to kill themselves. seriously it got So bad the company installed safety nets between the buildings so the people would not get hurt if they Jumped.
While all companies use Foxconn for parts they all don’t use them to the extent that APPLE does!
Here is a link,
Report Post »http://gizmodo.com/5574993/foxconn-is-installing-safety-nets-on-buildings
bullcrapbuster
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:34pmOoooh the niceness of that city council. All I have ever gotten from city councils sh$t and abuse.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:32pmLooks like a TARGET.
Report Post »onejimharris
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:30pmI think he’s the new Pentagon
Report Post »Dale
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 12:02amYou beat me to it: I thought that this is what the Pentagon would be if they built it today. Although I think Jobs should have his head examined: building a glass structure in California; earthquakes and ‘soaring’ energy (air conditioning costs – and perhaps (haven’t read it yet) unhealthy ‘green’ building).
Report Post »onejimharris
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:29pmCan i puke now
Report Post »calebgs83
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:19pmAwesome architecture, Terrible location.
Report Post »Banshee34
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:18pmAt least they are building in the USA and not India.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:14pmCalypso Louie’s mother ship just landed!
Report Post »randy
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:14pmWill he be importing chinese workers to build this?
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:14pmThis just proves that Steve Jobs is a Reptilian from Planet Gliese bent on world domination
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:23pmAncient
Actually he is from the planet, Bent Glass.
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:24pmOr an IUD
Report Post »vic138
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:25pmActually its very cool. Every engineer and marketing person gets a window office! Rather look in than out onto the 101.
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:27pmI said it looks like an IUD
Report Post »million
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:28pmWill it float like a boat once Cali. turns into a moat.
Report Post »Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:47pmHas the pope seen this? Its an IUD……a big one though…
Report Post »ISeeDanger.com
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:47pmApple…
Report Post »The official employer of China.
Not the US.
http://www.ISeeDanger.com
Untameable-kate
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:57pmSoo, a giant glass circle in the land of earthquakes?
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:57pmI’m waiting for the progressives whines about how Apple is spending so much money on a building when there are starving people in America.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:00pmI assume the middle is green space for their workers. I wonder if it incorporates all the latest “green” gadgets and doodads? I don’t know why Apple tries to be so different from others. Show-offs.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:24pmCool! The Monta Vista fault line should have fun with that building.
Report Post »Patrick in AZ
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:28pmCould you imagine going in the wrong direction and having to walk all the way around to get to a nearby office? :-)
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:37pmThe building looks like a pretty big “O.” Those people like O’s.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:38pmThey don‘t like Jesus’ cross, but they sure like O’s.
Report Post »jkendal
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 4:57pmIs it just me or does he look increasingly unhealthy?
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 6:02pmImagine what all Apple would do if they were ALLOWED to bring a trillion dollars back to the US from non-US earnings!? WOW! They could build a nationwide wireless communications system based on the vacated TV frequencies (from switch to digital TV) They could provide unlimited data plans, super high bandwidth, low prices, etc. It will take that kind of capital to do it, but, right now they would be taxed on those earnings even though taxes were paid abroad.
Report Post »The greed of our own government is what is stopping businesses from growing – govt is in competition with businesses. This was NEVER supposed to be the case. This is NOT what the founders intended. This is NOT what we need!
Hey, Obama and your socialist lib democrat buddies – GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR WAY!!!
Ron_WA
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 2:34amI was thinkin’ it looked like a worm-hole, a doughnut hole or Koch-ring …
Report Post »Physicist_In_Training
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 4:55pmPretty cool looking…but it would really be annoying if you regularly had to walk from one side of the building to the other
Report Post »TEAinGA
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 7:46pmJust stop by my office on your way out……….What section?……….North………..Oh, so you’re south?
Report Post »Well let’s see, it’s Tuesday…..You walking?………ok see ya tomorrow night.