Report shows vision of futuristic Apple campus
British architect Norman Fisher Foster is working on transforming Apple's latest purchase -- a real estate bargain from HP -- into a new campus designed to give the company some breathing room.
El Economista reports that the 100-acre campus is to be modeled after Masdar, Abu Dhabi, the first city in the world without cars or carbon emissions. The new campus is being referred to as 'Apple City,' and both campuses are to be linked by tunnels.
It's not surprising when you think about it. Apple has set out to revolutionize the personal computing experience, the mobile phone industry, tablet -- sorry, slate computers -- and your living room. Why not use these campus to test the ultimate Mac city, then eventually offer that technology to struggling municipalities? If this is Apple's next step to world domination, I can buy it.
[Via MacStories and 9to5Mac]
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Tunnels as a primary walkway tool - in an earthquake prone area. Ya - that's a great idea there.
December 06 2010 at 3:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyRegarding earthquakes and tunnels: Unless there's an actual fault that crosses the tunnel, where shearing could occur, a tunnel would be safer than an above-ground structure in an earthquake. The force of the quake causes instability (wobbling, swaying) in buildings, and when their ground and lower floors get out of sync with their higher floors, it causes catastrophic failure of the main support members. Yes, you might get bounced around in a tunnel, but in Cupertino there's no risk of flooding, so a tunnel is a perfectly fine solution for linking the two campuses, and superior in safety to a bridge during a quake.
December 06 2010 at 3:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAttention TUAW: His name is Norman Foster. Not Norman Fisher.
December 06 2010 at 2:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI, for one, welcome our new black mock turtleneck wearing Overlordâ¦!
December 06 2010 at 2:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyNorman Foster, not Fisher.
December 06 2010 at 2:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyNorman Fisher or Norman Foster?
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