Steve Jobs he was one of the co-founders of the famous company Pixar, he was its CEO for several years and as a sign of respect for him, the company decided to give its main building the name The Steve Jobs Buildingg. Steve Jobs would have been involved in the design process of the building, he was the one who helped Pixar develop and become a very important name in the film industry and beyond, and now all the company's employees will have him in mind when I come to work.
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According to Jobs' recent biography, the headquarters was to be a place that "promoted encounters and unplanned collaborations."... Jobs also strived for a campus that stood the test of time. Tom Carlisle, Pixar's facilities director adds that, "He didn't want a standard office-park building—one with corrugated-metal siding or ribbon windows. The building had to look good 100 years from now. That was his main criterion."
Pixar's campus design originally separated different employee disciplines into different buildings – one for computer scientists, another for animators, and a third building for everyone else. But because Jobs was fanatical about these unplanned collaborations, he envisioned a campus where these encounters could take place, and his design included a great atrium space that acts as a central hub for the campus.
Brad Bird, director of The Incredible and Ratatouille, said of the space, "The atrium initially might seem like a waste of space...But Steve realized that when people run into each other, when they make eye contact, things happen."
And did it work? "Steve's theory worked from day one," said John Lasseter, Pixar's chief creative officer "...I've never seen a building that promoted collaboration and creativity as well as this one."
