Steve Jobs Wants to Build Apple Spaceship Office

Steve Jobs has been busy lately. Many saw him at the WWDC to show off Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud, but the very next day he had a private audience at the Cupertino City Council regarding Apple's plans to change and develop the land that the company owns.

Apple now owns an enormous chunk of land in Cupertino, thanks in large part to a purchase of real estate from a moving-out Hewlett Packard. The area there right now is mostly industrial, concrete and asphalt. Apple is seeking to completely change the landscape of that area, filling the current parking lots with grass and trees.

Steve Jobs presented to the council plans for an office building that is completely circular in shape. Job himself characterized the building concept as looking a bit like a spaceship.

The building will be quite expensive to make due to its lack of flat surfaces. The outside windows will require large sheets of curved glass, which aren't even common at Apple Stores.

Watch the video below to see Steve Jobs work his showmanship to the city, many of whom are visibly big fans of Apple's residence at Cupertino.

Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
  • sigma3d
    alien invasion. yay!
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  • burnley14
    The outside windows will require large sheets of curved glass, which aren't even common at Apple Stores.
    Ha ha, very clever Marcus :)
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  • house70
    La folie de grandeur...
    He already has a personality cult going, why not this?...
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  • bill gates is your daddy
    One Ring to rule them all,
    One Ring to find them,
    One Ring to bring them all
    and in the darkness bind them.
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  • freggo
    At this size you can use 'straight' panes of class as the panes would be angled just about one degree from each other. Would make no difference visually and save a pretty penny.
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  • freggo
    glass... not 'class'. They have enough of that already (or so they think) :-)
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  • milktea
    good news for people in the silicon valley :)
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  • milktea
    I bet people in the Pentagon is drooling over it :D
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  • blackthorne
    Welcome Mr. Jobs....should I bend over now...or later?
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  • sliem
    Hey, there'll be more trees and landscape, so ...

    Also yes straight panes of glass would make no difference and save lots of money. Damn Jobs.
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