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Let's take a look at this "world's most expensive building" -
This year, many tech giants are building their own headquarters buildings. As a giant, it is embarrassing not to spend billions to build a building and go out to see friends.
And as a tall Apple company that everyone remembers, it has spent a huge amount of money, spending 5 billion US dollars to spend eight years to build their headquarters building. Today we will take a look at how good the world's most expensive building really is.
Apple's headquarters is located in Cupertino, Silicon Valley, covering an area of 720,000 square meters. This area is very close to the area of the Forbidden City. The main building area without the park also reached 260,000 square meters.
It may be said that many people do not have a specific concept. If we compare the Pentagon to other giant things in the United States, you must know. In the picture below, in addition to the turquoise Apple Tower and the blue Pentagon, from top to bottom are luxury cruise ships - nuclear-powered aircraft carriers - U.S. Navy MZ-3A aircraft carriers - Battleships during World War II - Empire State Building - supertankers. In this way, you should be able to directly understand its area.
It is also said that the ring in its center allows the Eiffel Tower to turn its heels in a circle inside. The equivalent of 36 football pitches, which can accommodate 12,000 employees, and the canteen can accommodate 3,000 people at the same time.
Having said what it occupies, let's talk about what it looks like.
What do you think is the character of the exterior of this building? Do you think it looks like a spaceship parked on the ground? Or do you feel like a donut? In my personal opinion, the biggest feature of this is that there is no feature. One lap and you're done. It can be said that it is the same as Jobs's concept, simple, extremely simple, simple to no friends.
The façade of the entire building is a piece of curved glass spliced together, which is very, very large glass. Curved glass with a precision of 0.88 mm, each piece takes 14 days to make. One of the largest pieces of glass should be the sliding door of the apple canteen, which is said to be more than fifteen meters.
Not only is the building's curtain wall all-glass, but the internal office areas are also separated by glass. So why all of it? In the words of the designer, "Let people communicate, collaborate, move around, talk."
If you look at the apple from a high altitude at night, the lights are bright inside, and the light shines through the glass outside, to be honest, it does look like a spaceship. That's it during the day.
After talking about the exterior, let's talk about the office environment of the internal employees.
As mentioned earlier, the floor space of Apple's headquarters building, do you think that such a large area to accommodate such a small number of people is not a bit too wasteful, in fact, it is not. Apple's headquarters adheres to the concept of technology serving people, so working here is a very enjoyable experience. How comfortable it is, let's look down.
The first is Apple's control of details.
Here we use a door handle as an example, Apple requires that the door handle can not be connected with screws. It must be fused inside the door frame and feel the same aluminum alloy texture as the MacBook Pro. And the handle structure should also be applied to other parts of the building.
Then there's the staff desk.
Every Apple employee's desk can automatically adjust its height. The button is mounted at the bottom of the table. The adjustment button is designed in a concave shape, the convex button is used to raise the table, and the opposite is true for the recessed button, so that you don't have to bend down to see the button. In order to allow the various charging lines and wires on the table to have storage space, the design of this table has also undergone several iterations.
There is also the interior that claims to be able to not open the air conditioner for nine months, relying on natural ventilation.
Many people will say, can this be done by natural ventilation? Apple said of course it can, and there is a building called "Breathing Building" inside the park, which is the regulator of indoor ventilation. To ensure that the indoor temperature is kept between 20-25 degrees Celsius, water pipes are hidden in the concrete of the floor and ceiling to regulate the temperature. This is also the original design idea of Jobs, he hopes to break the boundary between indoor and outdoor, so as to awaken the senses of employees. Maybe this is the realm, I can't understand.
Let's talk about the café restaurant inside.
Everyone knows that Americans are very fond of pizza and burgers, and the café in the headquarters has even designed the pizza packaging box in order to let employees eat a pizza with a good taste. This perforated breathable box is said to preserve the good taste of pizza, and it has also applied for a patent for apples. The above examples are only a small part, and there are many, many people-oriented designs that I will not dwell on. Just the above should be able to imagine the comfort of the office.
The whole building inside and outside emphasizes nature, the building does so much glass in order to weaken the existence of the building, inside and outside there are large areas of green space, large pieces of plants. According to Jobs's idea, it should be that architecture is just lifeless stone, which will one day become garbage, and only nature is the greatest legacy left to future generations.
Here's another one, Apple's parking building also has a lot of trees and greenery, which is equivalent to the feeling of being in the park as soon as you drive in, so that your mood will be more relaxed.
What do you think about this building?
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