Jony Ive on Apple Park: "It's nice, though, isn't it""
Apple's chief designer Jonathan Ive has revealed his feelings about the tech giant's new home, as his team prepares to move in, and photos of the building's interior emerge.
Ive has helped oversee the construction of the ring-shaped Apple Park campus, designed by architecture firm Foster + Partners, for the past eight years. It was the last major project he worked on with Apple founder Steve Jobs before his death in 2011, and its imminent completion is a huge milestone for the company.
During a tour of the campus with the Wall Street Journal, Ive revealed he is anxious about how the building will be received by the public.
"It's nice, though, isn't it""Â he said.
"There's the same rather strange process you go through when you finish a product and you prepare to release it ? it's the same set of feelings," he continued. "That feels... encouragingly healthy, because I would be concerned if we lost that sense of anxiety. I think that would suggest that we were not as self-critical, not as curious, not as inquisitive as we have to be able to be effective and do good work."
This autumn, Ive and his design team will become one of the last groups of Apple employees to move into the building. The first of the 12,000 began relocating in April, despite the building and its landscaped grounds in Cupertino, California, not being fully finished.
"I'm just looking forward to going to see an engineer I'm working with on something, to sit the...
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