apple computer proposed campus

Written By Robin Wade

Apple's proposed campus

apples proposed campusLooks like Steve's not done yet.  This weekend, on the way to the Apple store for cpu repair, I enjoyed hearing Steve sharing his new campus vision with the Cupertino council.  If he pulls it off, it may just be the largest, and most amazing, and most beautiful, and maybe even greenest (as in sustainable) office building in the world. 

The plan will be to house 13,000 employees in one building.  This is in addition to their nearby existing complex at one infinite loop (which is where we mailed montly checks way back when we were in the computer business).

Parking undergound, only using the grid as backup power (so cool), and he hired Stanford's top arborist to plan all the green spaces at Apple's proposed campus. 

Steve just isn't looking so good lately.  I hope he's able to hang around long enough to see this one.  - Me too!

Apple's proposed campus

 

Robin Wade
Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.
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