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1,000

Number of bikes that will
LeaderBoard available to the staff to get
be kept on Apple’s new
campus. They will be
around the area
CommerCiAl reAl esTATe

Apple’s Core
meadows and trees indigenous
to the santa Clara valley—such
as the apricot orchards Jobs
A sneak peek at the most anticipated business recalled from his childhood—will
headquarters ever fill four-fifths of the site, including
the secluded inner courtyard
two years after apple got the green light to build
a 175-acre campus on Hewlett-Packard’s hallowed former grounds in
one of the largest corporate
Cupertino, California, the ‘spaceship’ has (nearly) landed. Designed installations of solar panels on the
by Foster + Partners—helmed by legendary British architect Norman planet will enable Apple’s hQ to
Foster—the project will be complete in late 2016 at a reported cost run entirely on renewable energy
of $5 billion. No less an aesthete than the late Steve Jobs deemed it
“the best office building in the world”. From the drone’s-eye view:
- kATiA sAvChuk The building’s 12,000 employees
will need somewhere to nosh,
and this area—to become a
should the miles of jogging 58,000-square-foot eatery
and bike trails not suffice, surrounded by outdoor seating—
the campus will also include is just the spot
a 100,000-square-foot
fitness centre

emory PeTersoN; ToP: GeTTy imAGes design hides some 2,400 parking curved. “it’s not the cheapest way

To rid the site of most visible
The 2.8-million-square-foot main
asphalt and keep the building to
building will be a perfect circle,
just four storeys, the campus’s
with every piece of glass custom-
spaces below ground. A
to build something,” Jobs told the
separate parking structure will
Cupertino City Council in 2011
hold another 5,900

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