Apple's Mothership Headquarters Turns Into Nightmare for Contractors
In a lengthy report today, Bloomberg Businessweek takes a look at Apple’s upcoming “spaceship” campus in Cupertino, noting that the project is currently one year behind schedule and roughly $2 billion over budget.
Contractors and naysayers are blaming Steve Jobs and his excessive picking at details.
So what? I say ‘fuck them’. The man had a vision, and his company has the money. We are going nowhere if we always try to do the cheapest and easiest things.
Do you sincerely believe the pyramids of Giza are representative of the times’s most common and cheapest technologies? We are not going to leave our mark in history, as a modern culture, if we keep making things cheap and easy to do. The only architectural project that, in my opinion, qualifies both as a modern project and a true wonder is Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia. And even he is long dead. We, as a modern people, are unable to construct anything that will last centuries because we are focused on greed and short-term profits.
Steve believed in making something big, something durable, something that people could relate to for years and more. Whether this building would end its days within the hands of Apple or another company, it has the opportunity to stay in times as a symbol of today’s culture. We shouldn’t put a price point on it.