Apple Shows Off Wicked Scale Model of Their Proposed ‘Spaceship’ HQ & Campus
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Tomorrow, the Cupertino City Council will cast their final votes on Apple’s dream headquarters design, giving a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to the project. Which is why just a few days ago, Apple opened their doors to the Bay Area News Group for a rare glimpse at their in-house scale model for Apple Campus 2.
A foamcore hack job this ain’t. The “top-secret, living-room sized model” depicts the much-ballyhooed circular main building and the sprawling green campus in detailed glory, and we viewers are now able to get a sense of scale that was absent in the 2D renderings. Whether you call it the Spaceship or the Apple Ring, the four-story round building is nearly one mile in circumference and close to a third of a mile in diameter.
The circular shape isn’t a product of whimsy, by the way. “The concept of the building is collaboration and fluidity,” Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer told the San Jose Mercury News. “We found that rectangles or squares or long buildings or buildings with more than four stories would inhibit collaboration. We wanted this to be a walkable building, and that’s why we eventually settled on a circle.”
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