The One Thing the Architect of Apple's New HQ Would Change | WIRED BizCon

With the final product

the finished building near completion,

when you look at it, when you visit it,

is there anything you would have done differently

with either the building itself or the way it's oriented

or its positioning within the campus?

No, I mean I think that...

I wouldn't.

[Richard] That's a great feeling.

The only hesitation I have is that, would you,

in terms of the changing patterns of transportation,

the fact that the car as we know it

will be obsolete in very short time,

probably by 2030, next ten or fifteen. Yes.

And all the indications of that revolution

are that maybe the conventional garage

needs to be rethought, and re-thought now.

So, maybe if I had that a second time round,

I'd be putting a lot of persuasive pressure to say,

make the floor-to-floor of a car park

that much bigger, so that if you're not gonna be

filling it with cars in the future,

then you could more easily retrofit it

into habitable space for working, for living,

because maybe the conventional need of car parks

as we know it today will,

in a very short space of time, be overtaken by events.

And of course, the cost of doing that

would be pretty minimal.

Your ramps would be a little longer,

and your columns would, similarly, be a little longer.

But that's about the only difference.