While our own Board of Supervisors was busy dodging lobbyists and weighing public opinion on major developments like Parkmerced and Treasure Island yesterday, Cupertino City Council members were positively melting in their seats over a celebrity appearance by the Pope of One Infinite Loop, Mr. Steve Jobs himself. The Apple CEO, fresh off of Monday's WWDC presentation at the Moscone Center, popped in to Cupertino City Hall to explain his plans for a new 12,000-person, single-building campus built on 150 acres of former Hewlett-Packard land. And it looks like a spaceship:
According to Jobs, some of the best architects in the world came up with that monstrosity using experience gleaned from building glassy, polished-metal Apple stores around the world. "There's not a single straight piece of glass in this building," he says. "Architecture students will come here to see this." (Because their iPhone are cracked, probably - Architecture students are unassuming drunkards.)
The building will break ground sometime next year, pending approval from Cupertino City Hall. And there's zero real reason to believe they won't go along with it: the way the council members start to gush as Jobs opens himself up to questions [starting around the 10:30 mark in the embedded video below] is almost too cute to handle. Allow us to paraphrase our favorite exchange:
Councilwoman Kris Wang: "What can city residents benefit from this new campus?"
Jobs: "As you know we're the largest taxpayer in Cupertino, so we'd like to stay here and continue to pay taxes."
Wang: "So we're not getting free WiFi?"
Full video, for the fanboys below, and for all the bulleted details on the project, Techcrunch has the report.
