Submitted by WA Contents

See Apple’s Spaceship campus with numbers: It costs 5 billion in total!

United States Architecture News - Jun 14, 2016 - 14:47   7483 views

See Apple’s Spaceship campus with numbers: It costs 5 billion in total!

Apple's new California headquarters undoubtedly is the most speculative project, discussed by architects and public in the world because of its global reach, budget, isolated-design, and massive structure. But, do you want to know exact numbers and budget of the new Apple Campus 2? The article examines Apple's spaceship starting from its material properties, construction phase to the environmental conditions that created.

[....] Campus 2 will run entirely on clean energy, powered by renewable sources. But what’s really grabbed our attention are the thousands of panels of curved window panes—the largest pieces of structural glass ever made—that will encase Apple’s mothership. Equally cool are the 60,000 pounds of hollow concrete slabs that allow the building to “breathe,” bolstering its eco-friendly qualities. With so many futuristic features, we wanted to get a closer look. Here’s what we found......Continue Reading

Top image courtesy of Popular Science

> via popsci.com