Apple’s Spaceship HQ

Apple’s new HQ designs

Back in 2011, when Steve Jobs announced his plans to build a spaceship-like Cupertino HQ for Apple, we all knew it was going to be one ridiculously lavish office. But according to Bloomberg Businessweek, it’s due for a bit of a downgrade before construction starts this June. It’ll still be crazy, just not totally absurd.

Sources with knowledge of the plans say the building’s cost ballooned from a wild 3 billion dollars to an insane 5 billion dollars since 2011. In other words, it reached a full billion more than the total cost of the new World Trade Center. At an all-hands meeting back in February, Tim Cook pushed the move-in date back from 2015 to 2016 and apparently that’s because architects Foster + Partners have been tasked with shaving a cool bil’ off the budget.

From : http://gizmodo.com/5993633/

I think this concept is totally absurd too.  These tech giants just want to build monuments to say “Look at us, we’re better than you!”