New images of Apple’s projected Cupertino campus show a circular building with glass windows and underground parking, designed to look like a spaceship. The planned building would be called Apple Campus 2 and would be a mini eco-city. The main source of energy would be Apple’s own energy building, which is based on natural gas and clean sources. The Cupertino city grid would be used as a backup source. The building has been designed as a four story spaceship-shape, with glass walls and would measure 2.8m sq foot. The glass walls allow employees to have a look anywhere onto the park landscape and its 6,000 trees.
The building would be the work place of 13,000 Apple employees and features a 1,000 seat auditorium and a fitness center. Also, the campus has underground parking and 300,000 square feet of research facilities, all surrounded by 150-acres of landscaped property. The design plan is ready but the construction of the building is set to begin next year and it would be due to complete in 2015. According to International Business Times, the company that designed this campus of the future is the same one that has designed Apple’s current campus, Kier & Wright and ARUP North America, and they are working with architects Foster & Partners.
Apple’s current Cupertino headquarters, at 1 Infinite Loop, only holds 2,800 people, and the total number of Apple employees is somewhere around 12,000. Apple needed another building, big enough to hold the employees and provide appropriate work conditions, and since the company wished to remain in Cupertino, this project has been proposed. Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, presented the project in June and according to him, it could be ”the best office building in the world.”
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