“Apple Computer signed a deal for the entire 116,830-square-foot building at 10400-10450 Ridgeview Court in Cupertino. About 56,315 square feet was a direct deal with the landlord and the remaining 60,515 square feet was a sublease from IBM,” Lindsay Austin reports for CoStar Realty.
Full article with photo of the building here.
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Apple Computer quietly accumulates tens of thousands of square feet of Cupertino office space – October 03, 2005
Maybe now it will be a good idea to submit an employment application to Steve-O…
Looks like it’s time to send my resume
hmmm… no news on what they’re going to use the extra space for? Anyone know how close it is to the main Apple complex?
http://www.g-zus.net/
That’s where Adobe will be housed? heh
“Hello, Apple iPhone Network Customer Support Centre.. how may I direct your call?”
Massage parlor and internet cafe?
“That’s where Adobe will be housed? heh”
Or maybe “Disney-West”.
Sadly Apple’s offices are as boring as Dull’s computers — generic suburban office park crap. Apple needs to do a modern New Urbanist community that incorporates their offices, retail, housing and such. An entire Apple community where the cool-aid flows from fountains…
That building resembles a Cylon ship!
it looks to be about a 1 minute drive from main campus..
http://homepage.mac.com/gsf/10450_Ridgeview_Court_cupertino_ca.kmz
(needs google earth)
iSteve, as I understand, employees of Apple are quite happy to go away from their place of work a few hours each night. Imagine if they all lived there too.
I couldn’t be an Apple employee. My family is too important. Of course if i was around cool Mac stuff and elbow-deep in sekret Apple stuff, who needs a family.
Apple here I come!
(if my wife is reading this, just kidding hunny)
Steve’s ego has been demanding its own office. And quite surprisingly it’s not a vegetarian like Steve but strictly carnivorous preferably raw. The id could not be reached for comment.
There can only be one infinite loop. What will this become? 1 half-pi tangent?
When Apple starts adding employees is when Apple starts to lose it’s edge.
Case study: Microsoft’s product release schedule and employee growth over the past decade.
Tommy Boy: Add Google to that list too.
P.S. I heard there was a nasty computer virus going around. Were any of you fellow Mac users affected? <cue sinister chuckle> (I know, I know – gloating is bad karma)
Infinite Loop should have a sculpture of a Moebius strip in the center of the campus. You can’t eschew Escher forever.
Hold it guys – there is a direct corrolation between the flashiness of the offices and the liklihood of business failure…
I’m don’t give ahoot what Apple’s campus looks like – though I’m sure its nothing but stylish..
iSteve writes: “Sadly Apple’s offices are as boring as Dull’s computers.”
You’ve obviously never been inside an Apple building. Apple spends millions on the interior of its buildings. The first building i worked in at Apple (circa 1987) was.%20%20Aside%20from%20the%20baby%20grand%20piano,%20wicked%20sound%20system,%20state%20of%20the%20art%20video%20games%20and%20venerable%20popcorn%20machine,%20it%20had%20an%20interesting%20motif%20and%20something%20which%20most%20people%20never%20noticed:%20%20Paw%20prints%20of%20various%20critters%20in%20the%20tiles%20of%20the%20spacious%20atrium’s%20floor.%20%20Oh,%20and%20some%20really%20nice%20eye-candy%20too:%20%20The%20receptionist%20was%20ivery/i%20well%20built.%20%20img%20src=http://www.macdailynews.com/images/smileys/grin.gif)
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Each Apple building had its own unique motif, and Apple kept sprucing up their buildings.
Tommy Boy writes: “When Apple starts adding employees is when Apple starts to lose it’s edge.
Case study: Microsoft’s product release schedule and employee growth over the past decade.”
Of course this ignores the fact that Apple started with two people.
Apple has steadily increased it’s workforce for 30 years. Of course it has had periods of downsizing too, but those were always short-lived and most of the positions eliminated were rehired within a year (sometimes with the same people who had been let go). They built the complex at Infinity Loop to consolidate all their Bay Area operations, which had become quite sprawled and scattered, onto one campus. A year or so ago they outgrew that and started to gobble up more Cupertino lease holdings. This is just the second-wave of lease acquisitions in recent times.
Your premise has no merit, particularly in the case of Apple.
Of course the mere idea of comparing Apple and, er, M$ is… uh… “less than wise.”
A majority of the offices in Silicon Valley are “office park crap.” That’s why so many people at Apple and the other companies in the Valley live in San Francisco and take Caltrain.
G-ZUS writes: “Anyone know how close it is to the main Apple complex?”
Cupertino is tiny. Only about three miles east to west or north to south. This is probably a 15-20 minute walk, or a 7-30 minute drive, depending on traffic.
S.Lo writes: “A majority of the offices in Silicon Valley are “office park crap.” That’s why so many people at Apple and the other companies in the Valley live in San Francisco and take Caltrain.”
That doesn’t make much sense. How would your office being “office park crap” motivate you to live in SF?
Be that as it may, when i worked at Apple in the late eighties and early nineties, i only knew one person who lived anywhere near SF (Sausalito). Everybody else lived in the Valley or to the south.
Anyhow, i seriously doubt that the aesthetics of Apple’s office space is worse under Steve Jobs than it was under John Sculley. Steve is known for his appreciation of design and style. I’ve got to think Apple’s office space is every bit as good today as it was when i worked there, and most likely better.
G-ZUS… Nothing personal, but due to your insistance of placing a link to your commercial web site on every post, I’ve come to the conclusion that your activity here is not for opinion sharing, but rather for free advertising. You opinions are welcome, but if you want to sell to MDN readership, you really should buy some ad space.
“That’s where Adobe will be housed? heh”
“Or maybe ‘Disney-West’.”
Uh – Disney is headquatered in California, not Florida.
Here Ya Go: 2.1 miles
http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=10400+Ridgeview+Ct,+Cupertino,+CA+95014+@37.330908,-122.011297&saddr=1+Infinite+Loop+cupertino,+CA&f=li&hl=en&dq=10400+Ridgeview,+Cupertino,+CA&cid;=&ll=37.331761,-122.021778&spn=0.013086,0.024462&t=k