JPMay 19, 2025
if your "beautiful, elegant, futuristic" huge ring-shaped HQ requires a truly colossal fuck-ugly parking garage that dwarfs it, it's not actually a very beautiful elegant futuristic HQ now is it
Show threadJonathan HendryMay 19, 2025

@jplebreton

You would prefer acres of ground level parking lots like Google?

psst: the photo is at an angle so it distorts the relative sizes of the buildings.

Show threadYlönën
@jonhendry @jplebreton How about a country that doesn't force all the work force to drive a car everywhere?
You could compare aerial photos of ASML HQ in Veldhoven, Netherlands. Much less parking for cars, protected cycling lanes built to Dutch standard all the way to where you need to go and park your bicycle, a bus to Eindhoven from a nearby stop (that doesn't suck nor is right next to a busy highway) every 10 minutes also during office hours...
May 19, 2025 at 10:24amWeb
Show threadJonathan HendryMay 19, 2025

@paavi @jplebreton

I'm not sure a nation's transportation preference is in the scope of a company's architectural choices.

Certainly it would be great if the Cupertino area was more bike-centric. But I think that was settled in favor of cars long before Apple built their new HQ.