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 It was opened to employees in April 2017, while construction was still underway, and superseded Apple Campus as the company's corporate headquarters, which opened in 1993.
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Overhead view, April 2018 | |
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| Alternative names | Apple Campus 2; One Apple Park Way |
| General information | |
| Status | Completed |
| Architectural style | Neo-futurism |
| Address | 1 Apple Park Way |
| Town or city | Cupertino, California |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 37°20′06″N 122°00′32″W |
| Named for | Apple Inc. |
| Groundbreaking | 2013 |
| Construction started | 2014 |
| Opened | April 2017 |
| Cost | US$5 billion (the land cost was estimated at US$160 million) |
| Owner | Apple Inc. |
| Dimensions | |
| Diameter | 0.29 mi (0.46 km) |
| Circumference | 0.91 mi (1.46 km) |
| Other dimensions | Accommodating more than 15,000 staff (as of May 2023) |
| Technical details | |
| Material | Aluminum, glass |
| Floor count | 4 |
| Floor area | 2,820,000 sq ft (262,000 m2) |
| Grounds | 64 acres (0.26 km2) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Norman Foster |
| Architecture firm | Foster and Partners |
| Structural engineer | Arup |
| Services engineer | Arup |
| Other information | |
| Parking | 14,200 |
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). Apple co-founder Steve Jobs wanted the campus to look less like a business park and more like a nature refuge; 80 percent of the site consists of green space planted with drought-resistant trees and plants indigenous to the Cupertino area, and the center courtyard of the main building features an artificial pond.