Steve Jobs touts new Apple office building
'The best the world has yet to see'
Apple revealed on Tuesday its new office blueprint that will house more than 12,000 workers and on the side, aspire as the coolest workplace on Earth.
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs presented the plan to city officials of Cupertino, where the company headquarters is located, informing his audience that the circular and spaceship-like structure will sit on the company's 150-acre land, adjacent to its present building the sprawling Apple compound.
Reuters reported that Jobs described Apple's new office work site as a four-story building that essentially looks like a resting spaceship in a place landscaped with trees, native plants and apricot orchards.
The meeting with Cupertino's city council was Jobs' second public appearance in a single day and served as another break from his hiatus due to medical reasons. He came out Tuesday to help launch Apple's new iCloud service and the new Lion OS, plus some software updates for the firm's flagship gadgets.
Jobs underscored the importance of the new Apple office building that will comfortably accommodate its ballooning staff numbers which recently breached the 12,000 mark as he highlighted the need for the company workers to be relocated in a place more conducive for the work demands of Apple.
This new office building, according to the Apple chief, will be an architectural wonder as he stressed that "there is not a straight piece of glass in the building ... and we know how to make the biggest pieces of glass in the world for architectural use."
Jobs also noted that the planned Apple building might just end up as "the best office building in the world,' which will sit on the property once owned by computer hardware giant Hewlett-Packard.
Apple has assured that workers travelling to and from the proposed office building will not make a significant impact on Cupertino's present traffic condition despite its relatively massive size, negating the need for any redraw of the city's existing traffic scheme.