Apple Park

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 It was opened to employees in April 2017, while construction was still underway, and superseded Apple Campus as the company's corporate headquarters, which opened in 1993.

The main building's scale and circular groundscraper design, by Norman Foster,have earned the structure the media nickname "the spaceship". 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). The design hides the roads and parking spaces underground. The campus uses only glass for its walls and views of the inner courtyard as well as of the landscape facing the exterior of the building.The inner part of the circular building contains a 30-acre park featuring a pond, with fruit trees and winding pathways inspired by California fruit orchards.

Did you know

The land cost was estimated at $160 million. In 2011, the budget for Apple Campus 2 was less than $3 billion.However, in 2013 the total cost was estimated to be closer to $5 billion.

Facts

• The campus has seven cafés, with the largest being a three-level café for 3,000 sitting people.
• Officially known as the Steve Jobs Theater. The theater plays host to many types of events, from Apple Events such as product announcements.
• A 100,000-square-foot fitness center is located in the northwest of the campus.
• The research and development facilities feature two large 300,000-square-foot buildings on the southern edge of the campus and are occupied by more than 2,000 people.

Apple Park Visitor Center

Apple Park Visitor Center is a two-story structure with four main areas: an Apple Store featuring Apple-branded merchandise (T-shirts, hats, tote bags, postcards) not sold at regular Apple stores, a café, an exhibition space which currently showcases a 3D model of Apple Park with augmented reality, and a roof terrace overlooking the campus. The Visitor Center is the only part of Apple Park which tourists are permitted to visit.