Jakub Dlouhy Apple Park, the new monumental headquarters of the apple company, continues to impress with its size and architecture. The entire area is largely green and its foundation is a circular building with a diameter of almost 500 m. Apple Park also includes the underground Steve Jobs Theater, which has now received an architectural award from the London Institute of Civil Engineering.
The Steve Jobs Theater, an underground hall with 1000 seats, is mainly used to present new products of the apple company. However, many original and innovative solutions are hidden behind this seemingly ordinary building, which did not escape the jury of the London Institute of Civil Engineering when distributing this year's awards. The hall named after the co-founder of Apple won an award in the field of architectural art. The evaluators admired not only the appearance of the building itself, but above all the technical solutions, which include the system of cabling and pipes, which is hidden from the visitors in the soffits, or the circular roof of the theater made of carbon fibers.
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In general, this category honors buildings that, when constructed, were viewed not only as ordinary structures, but rather as spectacular works of art. The exceptionality of the construction cannot be denied when looking at the luxurious leather seats with an incredible price of $14 per piece or a pair of elevators that rotate 000° while driving. The hall's circular carbon fiber roof, supported not by a single column but only by glass walls around the perimeter, was the next step towards the aforementioned award.
Elevator in the Steve Jobs Theater:
Before the official opening of Apple Park, the Steve Jobs Theater was already used for the presentation of the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and X in September 2017. This year, we saw new iPhones and the fourth generation Apple Watch in its premises. Apple is known for its attention to detail and aesthetics in both its products and the buildings that serve it. And as evidenced by the aforementioned award, it is far from just the appearance, but also the technical solutions hidden from ordinary visitors that make these buildings exceptional.
