Apple Park

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Apple Park
Aerial view of Apple Park

Aerial view of Apple Park

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place Cupertino , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
architect Norman Foster
Client Apple
Construction year 2013-2017
Floor space approx. 260,000 m²
Coordinates 37 ° 20 '8 "  N , 122 ° 0' 33"  W Coordinates: 37 ° 20 '8 "  N , 122 ° 0' 33"  W.
Aerial photograph (2016)

The Apple Park (formerly Apple Campus 2 ) is an area in Cupertino in California's Silicon Valley and also the headquarters of the US technology company Apple .

The previous Apple Campus was at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino. This building complex covers 130,000 m² (13  ha , 32  acres ). In 2006, the city administration offered Apple several properties about 1.5 km east of it in order to build a new company headquarters there. This area on Pruneridge Avenue, which also includes the former Hewlett Packard premises , is 710,000 m².

The foundation stone was laid in 2013 under the working title Apple Campus 2 . The construction costs were originally set at three billion US dollars , but according to media reports it should ultimately have been five billion. Apple has neither confirmed nor denied this number.

A special feature is its design in the form of a large ring. Even the Campus 1 has as an address Infinite Loop ( loop ); this idea was adopted for the new seat by Norman Foster , who was won over as architect. With a diameter of almost half a kilometer (461 m), the ring-shaped building is larger than the Pentagon (albeit with 260,000 m² with significantly less floor space). Inside the ring there is a 12 hectare park, twice the size of Vienna's city park . A total of over 14,000 parking spaces are planned on the site.

In February 2017 the site was named Apple Park and its auditorium was named Steve Jobs Theater . On February 16, 2018, One Apple Park Way became the official address of the company's headquarters after the annual general meeting had taken place there for the first time a few days earlier. The progressive move in of the more than 12,000 employees was not yet over at this point.

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Panorama of the complex under construction (July 2016)

Web links

Commons : Apple Park  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  6. ↑ Apple Park: This is how much the 15 buildings in Apple's headquarters cost. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Instagram photos of the employees: This is what the new Apple headquarters looks like. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  8. ^ Apple Park opens to employees in April . Apple press release, February 22, 2017, accessed February 22, 2017.
  9. ↑ Michael Steeber, Apple marks completion of new campus with first corporate address change since 1993 . in 9to5mac.com, February 16, 2018.
  10. ↑ Part of the Apple spaceship comes from Bavaria . February 22, 2016 ( welt.de [accessed October 18, 2019]).