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Re:Apple Park Opens to Employees in April by massysett on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @12:11PM (#13707075)
Equivalent 12-14 story buildings are not pleasant to work in; in particular there is far less natural light, so only the privileged managers get window light.

[edit] Plus: "It is also the site of the world’s largest naturally ventilated building, projected to require no heating or air conditioning for nine months of the year." That's probably tough to do with a box in the city.

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Re:Apple Park Opens to Employees in April by tptacek on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @01:54PM (#13708103)
That's nice, but it also does encircle an enormous amount of usable land in an extremely high-demand real estate market and turn it into a private park accessible only to employees of the company.
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Re:Apple Park Opens to Employees in April by ahh on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @02:41PM (#13708522)
The land in question used to be anonymous office buildings owned by...HP or someone like that, if I remember.

Apple has taken away precisely what from the public by replacing it with this?

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Re:Apple Park Opens to Employees in April by tptacek on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @02:54PM (#13708623)
The opportunity to use that land for anything better than a private park for Apple employees.

I don't think anyone here is saying this is awful. It's just not necessarily praiseworthy.

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Re:Apple Park Opens to Employees in April by rhino369 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @02:07PM (#13708229)
Does the Apple building have more light than skyscrappers with mostly glass walls?

The standard 12 story mid-rise buildings in DC are built with glass walls so that light doesn't get caught in outer offices.

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Re:Apple Park Opens to Employees in April by derekp7 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @02:44PM (#13708555)
The last few buildings I worked in had all the director-level offices in the center (glassed in), with the employee area taking up the ring around that. Plenty of daylight for everyone.
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