In less than three days, Apple will hold a new product launch conference
The iPhone 8 this time is also the "iPhone XNUMXth Anniversary Machine"
The location is also exciting
The official invitation letter said that this conference will be in the new
Jobs Theater in Apple Park!
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So, not only spending huge sums of money,
Also denounced...many mental and physical workers,
Apple Park, which is jointly built by forgetting sleep and eating,
What does it look like in the end?
It started to brew in 2004 and will be completed in 2017.
It lasted 13 years, the last work of Steve Jobs-
Apple ’s new headquarters, Apple Park,
Like every Apple product to be launched,
Is being used by journalists, designers, drones,
Try to reveal the secret of 360 degrees without dead ends.
Latest aerial photographyScreenshot from Matthew Roberts
Compared with the aerial image and the effect image, in addition to not planting trees around the building, it is relatively bare, and the temperament of the "spaceship" of the Ring-type building is still thin.
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In June 2011, Jobs' last public speech during his lifetime was for Apple's new headquarters, where Apple's future planned for at least 6 years would be realized.
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The HP campus not far from the current Apple headquarters(HP Campus), Will be built into a new apple park.
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Jobs said that the new headquarters "has a lot of plants, a circular building, integrated with the natural landscape, like a spaceship, as long as a building can accommodate 12000 Apple employees."
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In the summer six years later, Apple employees began preparing to move and moved to a new campus that Jobs planned like building every Apple product.
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Many details of the new headquarters Apple Park really resemble Apple products,Or simply say that the inspiration for the design comes from iPhone, Mac.
For example, like the iPhone Home buttonElevator button和Buttons to adjust table lift. The rectangular control panel has the same curvature and shape as the iPhone.
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There are also rumors that the toilet button also has the design element of the Home button...(Really?)
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Color and feel the same as Mac ProDoor handle.
In order to fit the metal handle to the glass door, there was no trace on the outer surface. It took the design team a year and a half to select and get it done.
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Apple ’s products give two of the deepest impressions:Design and expensive.
Apple Campus is also the ultimate play of these two qualities of Apple products.
The whole building is a perfect circle.
Every employee's work place(Pod), Like piano keys, arranged in harmony in the ring.
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In each Pod, the height of the table and the brightness of the light can be adjusted to your liking.
More specifically, there is no threshold for every door.
For employees who are thinking about walking, the spark of innovation is not interrupted.
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Glass fanatic Jobs originally wanted a completely glass building.
However, due to energy-saving and technological limitations, the design of the roof also used glass materials, but the building's outer walls are all glass.
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thenThe world's largest piece of curved glassAppeared, each piece up to 46Feet, about 14 meters.
Sedak, a German glass manufacturer who previously worked with Apple on the flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York, also developed and upgraded production machine tools for this purpose.
The number of glasses that can be produced every 14 hoursIncreased from 1 to 5, To complete the super large order of thousands of glasses of Apple.
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Apple President Tim Cook also deliberately went to the German factory to cheer the workers, "You are the best!"
And explained that although the production and transportation of the whole giant glass is expensive, it is still cost-effective compared to the cost of assembly and correction of small glass construction.
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Large table in public space, 18 feet(About 5.5 meters)Long and 4 feet wide, it was specially created by the Dutch century-old table brand Arco and ordered 500.
Arco's 7-foot-long Dining Table, the US market price is probably$4,600.
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The stones on the outer wall of the Fitness Center are not afraid of being far away(Expensive freight), From a quarry in Kansas state.
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Because of the color and pattern of the stone there, it is most like the exterior wall of The Ahwahnee Hotel, a Yosemite hotel that Jobs likes.
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Jobs said that Apple ’s new headquarters will have a lot of trees, so Apple Park plansPlant 9000 trees like a forest.
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The Apple team also requested that our Apple Park be like a forest when we move in from employees.Let us not plant small saplings and wait to grow into a forest barely.
So, the long and expensive planting of trees, the project of transporting trees began.
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In addition to buying and buying in the Bay Area, realtors who bought San Francisco complained,"The surrounding big trees were bought by Apple, and my new project cannot buy trees. "
A few years ago, Apple planted trees in a garden with a distance of 100 miles from Cupertino. When the park was about to open, it brought in the big trees that had grown.
A truck can only transport two or three such trees at a time,The shipping cost of one tree is several thousand knives, Does not include money to be paid for damage to trees in transit or public facilities such as scraped wires.
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In addition to the large number of trees, Apple Park has a large number of parking spaces.
Parking building(field)Has an area of up to 325,000 square meters,More than 318,000 square meters of office and R & D area in the park.
No wonder Apple Park is also known as "Apple Park (ing)".
Underground parking entrance Picture from Matthew Roberts
The park originally planned to build only underground parking space, but the cost was too high, so it was changed to build two more parking buildings on the ground.
This is also the only time in the design and construction of the Apple Park to abandon the original idea because of economic costs.
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The park, which is expected to have 14,000 employees, currently has only 12,000 parking spaces.
In this regard, Apple's solution is to provide Apple Bus, encourage Carpool, and prepare 2000 bicycles for employees to use in the park.
At the same time, work hard on Self-Driving Car research.
Apple ’s wishful thinking is: after employees come to the company in their own driverless car, their car can also provide travel services to others, thus not occupying public parking space.(Staff can make extra money?).
In April 2017, Apple was testing driverless technology on the road
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Every Apple product brings to the world not only the product itself, but also the industry pattern and even lifestyle changes.
This may be the reason why countless "fruit powders" are obsessed with Apple products.
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The architectural designer team of Apple Park is a British firm. The exterior glass is made by a German company. The large 5-meter-long indoor table comes from a Dutch brand.
A total of designers, engineers, and various companies from 19 countries participated in the design and construction of Apple Park.
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Apple Park's "shock" is also an achievement of this era.
Author | Chun Yuer
Edit | Peninsula Xiaomi Peach
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