{"id":8915,"date":"2013-05-27T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8915"},"modified":"2013-05-27T09:25:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T13:25:49","slug":"what-architecture-can-tell-us-about-facebook-google-and-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/what-architecture-can-tell-us-about-facebook-google-and-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"What Architecture Can Tell Us About Facebook, Google, And Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/052713_1322_WhatArchite1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"409\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Facebook, Google, and Apple are all building new corporate headquarters. Jimmy Stamp took a look at what the design of each of them said about the companies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tech companies used to have college-like campuses which would appeal to youth. Now the companies seem more interested in building giant monuments to themselves.<\/li>\n<li>Apple&#8217;s headquarters will be a massive ring (pictured above). It is a walled garden made for the &#8220;cult of Mac&#8221; that keeps the rest of the world out.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook is planning a single quarter mile long room with moveable chairs that can easily be rearranged. The fancy design and constantly changing configuration is an apt metaphor for Facebook itself.<\/li>\n<li>Google is building nine separate buildings connected by bridges. When designing the building Google&#8217;s engineers used an algorithm that optimized the amount of &#8220;casual collisions&#8221; that would happen among workers.<\/li>\n<li>Google&#8217;s hope is that this will lead to new creative ideas \u2013 although as with some of Google&#8217;s recent misfires, many won&#8217;t be fully thought out and will quickly be forgotten.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See what each of the headquarters looks like over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/business\/2013\/05\/al_techplex\/?pid=910&amp;viewall=true\">here<\/a>, and read about the opportunity that the companies have to define architecture.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/business\/2013\/05\/al_techplex\/?pid=910&amp;viewall=true\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, Google, and Apple are all building new corporate headquarters. Jimmy Stamp took a look at what the design of each of them said about the companies: Tech companies used to have college-like campuses which would appeal to youth. Now the companies seem more interested in building giant monuments to themselves. Apple&#8217;s headquarters will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/052713_1322_WhatArchite1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8918,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915\/revisions\/8918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}