Apple’s New Spaceship-Like Architecture Is Not Unique
By Taylor Meyer
Together with some headquarters like the Apple’s new spaceship, a lot of works with vast, circular and spaceship-like architecture are considered having similarities with Apple’s new campus which occupies 3.1 million block feet οf building space with room fοr аѕ many аѕ 13,000 people.
Let’s review the structure of Apple’s new campus located in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Cupertino according to Steve Jobs’ planning: A circular building, utilizing curved glass throughout the entire structure. Apple’s "spaceship" style building will be constructed using some of the biggest pieces of glass made for architectural purposes. Moreover, to keep the green for the new campus, Apple plans to make use of a naturally powered energy center for their primary source of power and use the city's power grid as backup.
Apple's headquarters is expected to be launched in 2012 and completed in 2015 with a diameter up to 480 meters, located in Cupertino (USA)
And enjoy these circular architectures and compare how they are similar to Apple’s new spaceship-like structure:
Thе Apple “spaceship” pattern looks a lot likе Government Communications Headquarters in Cheltenham with the outside diameter of 195 meters
The Pentagon in Arlington (USA) is a pentagon, but if it is in a circle, the circle will have a diameter of 485 meters.
Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico with a diameter of 305 meters
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble (France) with a diameter of 325 meters
Krugli Dom in Moscow (Russia) with a diameter of 120 meters
The mosque Al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, western Saudi peninsula
Colosseum in Rome (Italy) 189m long and 156 meters wide
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Center, New York (USA) with a diameter of 965m
The Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab Research Center in Illinois (USA) with a diameter of 1,900m
Grindtorp in Stockholm (Sweden) with approximately 400m in length
Sun City area of Maricopa, Arizona (USA) with a diameter of 1130 m
Thе Apple “spaceship” achitecture is similar to the Wimbledon Tennis Court in the centre of London (UK) with a diameter of 100m
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If you are interested in business and expect to find a prestigious business school for your study, the list of top ten business schools worldwide will help you have more choices before making the final decision.
Harvard Business School
Located in Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard Business School is widely considered as one of the top business schools worldwide, offering a full-time MBA program, doctoral programs and many executive education programs.
It spots No. 1 among US business schools voted by the QS Global 200 Business Schools Report, No. 2 by U.S. News & World Report and Bloomberg BusinessWeek and No. 3 by Forbes.
Particularly, three professors of the school including Mikolaj Piskorski, Zeynep Ton and Anita Elberse were named the 40 Best Business School Professors Under 40 by Poets & Quants.
Studying business at Harvard University means you may have a golden chance to work at the world’s leading companies
The Stanford Business School, a professional school of Stanford University, particularly offers the MBA degree (Master of Business Administration), the Sloan Master’s Program and a Ph.D. program.
It is among top three business schools that have the best MBA programs in the United States along with Harvard and Wharton (University of Pennsylvania).
The Stanford Business School is considered as the best business school in the United States by U.S. News & World Report
Wharton, the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, was the first business school in the world and in the United States established in 1881 through a donation of Joseph Wharton.
Like other famous business schools, it offers B.S. and MBA degrees, a Ph.D. program as well as houses or co-sponsors several diploma programs.
The Wharton has the world’s most published and most cited faculty among business schools
The MIT Sloan School of Management that aims at training principled and innovative leaders to generate ideas about advanced management practice features bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs, as well as non-degree executive education programs. It also has over 20,000 alumni including many prominent business and political leaders in more than 90 countries.
Its largest program is MBA program
Columbia Business School
Established in 1916 in Manhattan, New York City, US, the Columbia Business School provides business training and professional preparation for undergraduate and graduate Columbia University students. Especially, it is affiliated with 13 winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics including current professors Robert Mundell, Joseph Stiglitz and Edmund Phelps.
The Columbia Business School is also famous for its close ties to Wall Street
Besides five business schools mentioned above, the sixth to tenth position respectively belongs to the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the Kellogg School of Management, the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, London School of Economics and the Haas School of Business.
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
The Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University)
The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration (Dartmouth College)
London School of Economics
The Haas School of Business (University of California)
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In the recession period, the continuously increasing college cost makes more parents find it harder to send their children to school. The financial difficulties will also be a bigger challenge for foreign students, especially ones from poorer countries to pursue their studying in United States.
However, if you take a careful look and are capable of passing some stringent admission requirements, there are some leading colleges and universities that offer full-tuition scholarship, even free room and board in some cases. With these, students can save up to $51,000 a year.
Deep Springs College
Specialty: Liberal arts college for male only
Requirement: Applicants must take the SAT or ACT and complete a two-stage application that includes essays, transcripts, test scores, a book list for the past year, and a list of favorite books with explanatory descriptions. Those selected for second round are asked to write three additional essays, pay a four-to-five day visit to the school for interviews, and complete an optional creative supplement.
Deep Springs College - Location: Big Pine, Calif
Successful applicants for the class of 2013: 11/140 applicants or 8%
Estimated annual value of tuition (room and board included): $50,000+
Webb Institute
Specialties: Naval architecture and marine engineering
Requirement: A minimumSAT verbal score of 600 and a math score of 660 are required. Students should have a strong high school record. All students are issued a U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Document with Student Observer classification. All applicants must passover the physical requirement of climbing steep or vertical ladders; maintain balance on a moving deck; pull objects that weigh up to 50 lbs. for distances as far as 400 feet; open or close watertight doors that may weigh up to 56 pounds and so on.
Webb Institute - Location: Glen Cove, N.Y
Successful applicants for the class of 2013: 27/74 applicants or 36%
Estimated annual value of tuition: $27,800
Curtis Institute of Music
Specialty: Music
Requirement: The school seeks students who want to pursue a professional music career. The most important admission requirement is the audition in which the audition committee will determine the artistic promise of students. No minimum GPA is required.
Curtis Institute of Music - Location: Philadelphia
Successful applicants for the class of 2013: 44/896 applicants or 4%, were accepted, 25 of those were accepted into the undergraduate division.
Estimated annual value of tuition: $36,000/undergraduate music students; $49,000/ graduate music students.
Berea College
Specialty: Liberal arts college with required work-study program
Requirement: The minimum ACT score is 17 and the minimum SAT score is 1210, but most successful students score between 20 and 30 on the ACT and between 1410 and 1980 on the SAT, GPA of 3.5 or higher. The majority of applicants have limited financial resources.
Berea College - Location: Berea, Ky
Successful applicants for the class of 2013: 516/2,745 applications or about 19%.
Estimated annual value of tuition: $24,400.
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
Specialties: Marine engineering, navigation, maritime law, and ship administration
Requirement: Applicants must have a minimum SAT score of 510 (math) and 560 (reading), the average GPA requirement range from 3.5 to 3.6. In most cases, students must be U.S. citizens under 25; obtain a nomination from a U.S. senator or representative; pass the Candidate Fitness Assessment, master an exercise regimen, and be medically qualified by Navy commissioning standards. There are four others free tuition in the system: the U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Naval Academy, and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy - Location: Kings Point, N.Y.
Successful applicants for the class of 2013: 450/1,823 applicants or 25%
Estimated annual value of tuition (room and board, uniform, books included): $51,250
Cooper Union
Specialties: Engineering, art, architecture
Requirement: Although no minimum SAT score is required, middle score of successful art applicants is about from 590 (verbal) to 600 (math) and 640 (verbal) to 730 (math) for engineering students.
Cooper Union - Location: New York
Successful applicants for the class of 2013: 284/4,044 applicants or 7%
Estimated annual value of tuition: $35,000
Barclay College
Specialty: A Bible college with an emphasis on Christian life, service, and leadership
Requirement: A score of 18 on the ACT English section or an SAT score of 430 on the writing section, minimum GPA of 2.30 is required. Students must also submit a statement of faith and references.
Barclay College - Location: Haviland, Kan
Successful applicants for the class of 2013: 94/182 applicants or 51%.
Estimated annual value of tuition: $11,000
Alice Lloyd College
Specialty: Liberal arts college with a work-study program
Requirement: Minimum requirement is 17 on the ACT, SAT of 400 verbal and 430 math, and at least 2.25 GPA. Financial need is a factor in admission, but not a requirement.
Alice Lloyd College - Location: Pippa Passes, Ky
Successful applicants for the class of 2013: 66/1,992 applicants or 33%
Estimated annual value of tuition: $8,000
William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY
Specialty: Liberal arts college at the City University of New York for top students from New York and worldwide
Requirement: No minimum ACT or SAT score or GPA is required, but the successful students for class 2012 have an average SAT score of 1,400 and GPA of 92.4%. The school requires two letters of recommendation and two to three essays.
William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY - Location: New York
Successful applicants for the class of 2013: 985/3,750 applicants or 26.3%
Estimated annual value of tuition (school-provided a Mac laptop included): $4,900
University of the People
Specialties: Business administration and computer science
Requirement: Applicants must submit proof of graduation from secondary school, proficiency in English, and have access to a computer with an Internet connection. No minimum ACT, GPA or SAT are required. The school follow a five-year academic schedule.
University of the People - Location: Online
Successful applicants for the class of 2013: The school enrolls all students who meet the requirements. In the first two terms, there are approximately 300 students from 69 countries.
College of the Ozarks
Specialty: Liberal arts with required work-study program
Requirement: Applicants should be in the top half of their graduating class. No minimum GPA is required. Although the financial need is required to demonstrate, but it waived for 10% of entering class.
College of the Ozarks - Location: Point Lookout, Mo.
Successful applicants for the class of 2013: 140/4,000 applicants for 4%
Estimated annual value of tuition: $16,900
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