Apple Campus 2
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Apple Park aerial view, August 2016. Apple Campus 1 is visible near the top.
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| Alternative names | Apple Campus 2 |
| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Architectural style | Neo-futurism |
| Location | Cupertino, California |
| Address | 1 Apple Park Way Cupertino, CA 95014 |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 37°20′5″N 122°0′32″W / 37.33472°N 122.00889°WCoordinates: 37°20′5″N 122°0′32″W / 37.33472°N 122.00889°W |
| Groundbreaking | November 2013 |
| Opening | April 2017 |
| Cost | ≈ USD 5 billion (the land cost was estimated at $160 million) |
| Owner | Apple Inc. |
| Dimensions | |
| Other dimensions | Accommodating more than 12,000 staff |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 4 |
| Floor area | 2,800,000 sq ft (260,000 m2) |
| Grounds | 175 acres (71 hectares) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Norman Foster |
| Architecture firm | Foster and Partners |
| Other information | |
| Parking | 14,200 |
Apple Park is the future headquarters of Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California. It opened in April 2017, though construction continues to complete the buildings and its interiors. Its research and development facilities are already occupied with over 2,000 people. It will replace the current headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop.
Its circular design and extreme scale have earned a media nickname of 'the spaceship'. Located on a suburban site totaling 175 acres (71 hectares), it is planned to house more than 12,000 employees in one central four-storied circular building of approximately 2,800,000 square feet (260,000 square meters). Steve Jobs wanted the whole campus to look less like an office park and more like a nature refuge. Eighty percent of the site will be green space planted with drought-resistant trees and plants indigenous to the Cupertino area.
In April 2006, Apple's former CEO Steve Jobs announced to the city council of Cupertino that Apple had acquired nine contiguous properties to build a second campus, the Apple Campus 2. The building was conceived by Jobs, and designed by Norman Foster. Jobs took Foster to the cathedral-like building on the Pixar campus in Emeryville, which Jobs designed himself with the goal of keeping everything under one roof. He spent a large part of two years on the project before his death in 2011.
Purchases of the needed properties were made through the company Hines Interests, which in at least some cases did not disclose the fact that Apple was the ultimate buyer; Philip Mahoney, a partner with a local commercial real estate brokerage, noted that this is common practice in attempts to arrange the purchase of contiguous land made up of multiple parcels with separate owners, in order to keep costs from skyrocketing and not reveal the company's plans to competitors. Among the sellers of the properties were SummerHill Homes (a plot of 8 acres or 3.2 hectares) and Hewlett-Packard (three buildings of their campus in Cupertino), among others.
Until April 2008, Apple had not sought the necessary permits to begin construction, so it was estimated that the project would not be ready in 2010 as originally proposed; however, the buildings on the site are being currently held by Apple for its operations. In November 2010 the San Jose Mercury News revealed that Apple had bought an additional 98 acres (40 ha) no longer used by HP Inc., just north across Pruneridge Ave. This space used to be the HP campus in Cupertino before it was relocated to Palo Alto.
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