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yep, it looks really awful like something from 80s almost in par with commie architecture, these guys wasting money apparently never heard of Zaha Hadid and likes

common, it's just massive boring circle, even Pentagon building is more original, there are only two things making this building interesting - size, Apple HQ

make it ten times smaller and put there unknown company and nobody would bother to read about it

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They spent the money and effort on making it functional so that employees can best enjoy their time there.

Zaha Hadid designs beautiful but dysfunctional buildings.

enjoy time in those prison cubicles? they would better off let them work from home than in this prison environment

nice design from outside doesn't mean it can't be practical inside

We have one picture of the pods. You prefer to believe they are in windowless prison halls, I prefer to believe that most will have adequate natural light from windows. We'll soon find out who is right about that.

If Apple was Facebook or most modern web companies, the extra expensive of pods would have been spared to cram employees to stare at each other across tables in massive noisy rooms, usually with adequate natural light.

In this case Apple clearly is putting employees and their productivity first. At least they didn't choose Bella Hadid to design it, or god knows how much more impractical the inside would have been.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/27/zaha-ha...

Hadid is the most overrated architect in modern times.

Foster trumps her easily judging by his works.