Apple Park
headquarters of Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California
Apple Park, also known as Apple Campus 2, is the corporate headquarters of Apple Inc., located in Cupertino, California, United States. The campus accommodates more than 12,000 employees, who began moving into the facility in April 2017 while construction was still underway. It replaced the Infinite Loop campus as the company's corporate headquarters.
Designed by Norman Foster, the campus is centered on a four-story, 64-acre (26 ha) circular office building set within a 360-acre (150 ha) site. Its circular groundscraper design has led to the media nickname "the spaceship", while Apple employees have referred to it as "the ring". About 80 percent of the site consists of landscaped green space planted with drought-tolerant trees and vegetation native to the Cupertino area, and the central courtyard includes an artificial pond.
The campus includes the Steve Jobs Theater, Visitor Center, Developer Center, and Observatory, venues which have allowed Apple to host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park since 2022.
History
In June 2011, Apple's then 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 idea for a new headquarters was conceived by Jobs and Apple's then chief designer Jony Ive. Ive was Apple's immediate choice to design the project, going on to work very closely together with Norman Foster across five years, designing every detail, from the glass panels to the elevator buttons.
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