Aside from launching the iCloud service, Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5 on Monday, iconic Apple CEO Steve Jobs also gave details on Tuesday of a spaceship-shaped campus the consumer electronics giant on is planning to put up in Cupertino, various reports reveal.
Apple Plans Futuristic Spaceship Shaped Cupertino Campus 300x171 Apple Plans Futuristic Spaceship Shaped Cupertino Campus Shaped like a futuristic ring, reports say that the new 12,000-seater facility may be the site of the World Wide Developers Conference – the annual showcase of latest Apple tech and the venue where Jobs unveiled the iCloud, Lion and iOS 5 on Monday – in 2015.
The news comes after an address Jobs gave to a Cupertino City Council meeting. “Apple is growing like a weed…It’s clear we need to build a new campus,” Computer World quotes the CEO at the meeting.
Reports from local media outlets say that the complex will be like a single ring-shaped building surrounded by lush greens at the expansive land Apple has been piecing together in Cupertino. It may be built in 2015 or the year after, reports say.
Computer World says that Jobs has revealed that Apple plans to make the curved-glass for the building on site using technology they, according to the CEO, have perfected.
“We used our experience making retail buildings all over the world now, and we know how to make the biggest pieces of glass in the world for architectural use. We want to make the glass specifically for this building here. We can make it curve all the way around the building. It’s pretty cool,” Jobs said.
He said that architecture students will want to flock to the building when they finish building it because it is “that good.”
According to reports, the building will generate its own electricity through natural gas and other clean means and will only rely on conventional grid electricity for backup.
Its massive café, even though downplayed by Jobs to be built that big because 12,000 people need a space that big, will be able to sit 3,000 at the same time, Computer World reports.
The news comes after an address Jobs gave to a Cupertino City Council meeting. “Apple is growing like a weed…It’s clear we need to build a new campus,” Computer World quotes the CEO at the meeting.
Reports from local media outlets say that the complex will be like a single ring-shaped building surrounded by lush greens at the expansive land Apple has been piecing together in Cupertino. It may be built in 2015 or the year after, reports say.
Computer World says that Jobs has revealed that Apple plans to make the curved-glass for the building on site using technology they, according to the CEO, have perfected.
“We used our experience making retail buildings all over the world now, and we know how to make the biggest pieces of glass in the world for architectural use. We want to make the glass specifically for this building here. We can make it curve all the way around the building. It’s pretty cool,” Jobs said.
He said that architecture students will want to flock to the building when they finish building it because it is “that good.”
According to reports, the building will generate its own electricity through natural gas and other clean means and will only rely on conventional grid electricity for backup.
Its massive café, even though downplayed by Jobs to be built that big because 12,000 people need a space that big, will be able to sit 3,000 at the same time, Computer World reports.
