Inside Bay Area is reporting on the City of Cupertino's approval of Norman Foster's design for a toroid shaped campus for Apple.
This building strikes me as incredibly insular (viewed in plan, it is literally a bubble) and not indicative of a company that values its ties to the larger community (Apple may have wonderful community initiatives for all I know, but this building is stating the opposite through its design). Add to this the fact that the City of Cupertino anticipates the new Apple campus increasing its already excessive vehicular traffic situation. Consider the remark by resident Carol Baker (quoted in the Inside Bay Area piece) pointing out that essentially the city is so dependent on Apple economically that they cannot refuse permission to build.
Lastly, the piece reports that Apple's current campus will be demolished. I am truly bothered by waste on that scale. Why can it not be repurposed into high-density affordable housing?
This building strikes me as incredibly insular (viewed in plan, it is literally a bubble) and not indicative of a company that values its ties to the larger community (Apple may have wonderful community initiatives for all I know, but this building is stating the opposite through its design). Add to this the fact that the City of Cupertino anticipates the new Apple campus increasing its already excessive vehicular traffic situation. Consider the remark by resident Carol Baker (quoted in the Inside Bay Area piece) pointing out that essentially the city is so dependent on Apple economically that they cannot refuse permission to build.
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| Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group |
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