Apple Park

Apple Park
Overhead view, April 2018
Apple Park is located in San Francisco Bay Area
Apple Park
Apple Park
Location in the San Francisco Bay Area
Apple Park is located in California
Apple Park
Apple Park
Location in the U.S. state of California
Apple Park is located in the United States
Apple Park
Apple Park
Location in the contiguous United States
Alternative namesApple Campus 2; One Apple Park Way
General information
StatusCompleted
Architectural styleNeo-futurism
Address1 Apple Park Way[1]
Town or cityCupertino, California
CountryUnited States
Coordinates37°20′06″N 122°00′32″W / 37.3349°N 122.0090°W / 37.3349; -122.0090
Named forApple Inc.
Groundbreaking2013
Construction started2014
OpenedApril 2017
CostUS$5 billion (the land cost was estimated at US$160 million)[3]
OwnerApple Inc.
Dimensions
Diameter0.29 mi (0.46 km)
Circumference0.91 mi (1.46 km)
Other dimensionsAccommodating more than 15,000 staff (as of May 2023)
Technical details
MaterialAluminum, glass
Floor count4[4]
Floor area2,820,000 sq ft (262,000 m2)[4]
Grounds64 acres (0.26 km2)[2]
Design and construction
Architect(s)Norman Foster[5]
Architecture firmFoster and Partners[4]
Structural engineerArup[6]
Services engineerArup[6]
Other information
Parking14,200

Apple Park, also known as Apple Campus 2, is the corporate headquarters of Apple Inc., located in Cupertino, California, United States. It was opened to employees in April 2017, while construction was still underway, and superseded Apple Campus as the company's corporate headquarters, which opened in 1993.[7]

The main building's scale and circular groundscraper design, by Norman Foster,[8] have earned the structure the media nickname "the spaceship".[9][10][11] Located on a suburban site totaling 1.46 km2 (360 acres), it houses more than 12,000 employees in one central four-story circular building of approximately 0.26 km2 (64 acres). Apple co-founder Steve Jobs wanted the campus to look less like a business park and more like a nature refuge; 80 percent of the site consists of green space planted with drought-resistant trees and plants indigenous to the Cupertino area, and the center courtyard of the main building features an artificial pond.[11]

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  2. ^ a b "Apple Park opens to employees in April". Apple Newsroom. Apple Inc. Archived from the original on February 24, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  3. ^ Apple Campus 2 cost 5 billion Archived 16 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine Projects: Foster and Partners
  4. ^ a b c "Apple Campus 2: Project Description" (PDF). City of Cupertino. Cupertino, CA: Apple Inc. September 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
  5. ^ Wainwright, Oliver (November 15, 2013). "All hail the mothership: Norman Foster's $5bn Apple HQ revealed". The Guardian. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016.
  6. ^ a b "Request for Proposal: Professional Construction Inspection and Public Works Inspection Services for the City of Cupertino for the Apple Campus 2 Project". City of Cupertino. Cupertino, CA: City of Cupertino – Inspection Services. 12 November 2013. Archived from the original (pdf) on 6 November 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
  7. ^ Reisinger, Don (May 31, 2016). "Apple Campus 2 Looking Good in New Drone Flyover". Fortune. Archived from the original on July 10, 2016. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
  8. ^ "New Apple Headquarters The Best Office Building In The World, Designed In London". December 13, 2013. Archived from the original on May 25, 2019. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
  9. ^ Moore, Amy. "Complete guide to Apple Park, Apple's new 'spaceship' campus". Macworld UK. Archived from the original on May 7, 2017. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
  10. ^ VanHemert, Kyle. "Look Inside Apple's Spaceship Headquarters With 24 All-New Renderings". WIRED. Archived from the original on March 21, 2017. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
  11. ^ a b O'Brien, Chris (June 4, 2016). "A look at Apple's insanely ambitious tree-planting plans for its new spaceship campus". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on August 19, 2017.

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