Apple Park
One Apple Park Way, Cupertino, CA 95014
Steve Jobs personally presented the ring-shaped campus to Cupertino's city council in 2011. The completed ring retained that central concept and massing, while the employee move began in April 2017 and continued in phases for more than six months.
What got built
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What changed
- Steve Jobs and Apple design chief Jony Ive worked with Norman Foster of Foster and Partners over roughly five years developing the campus design.
- Jobs presented the design, a four-story, 2.8 million-square-foot circular building on a 175-acre site, to the Cupertino City Council on June 7, 2011. It was his final public appearance before his death on October 5, 2011.
- The Cupertino City Council unanimously approved Apple's plans on October 15, 2013, and construction proceeded under Foster and Partners.
- Apple announced that employees would begin moving to the campus in April 2017 and that the move would take more than six months; the 2.8 million-square-foot ring uses large curved-glass panels.
- The Steve Jobs Theater held its first public event September 12, 2017, and the Apple Park Visitor Center opened November 17, 2017.
- No material departure from the central 2011 ring concept and massing was identified in the sources reviewed.
Why there is nothing to explain
The completed campus retained the central ring concept and massing presented in 2011. The sources reviewed did not identify a material departure from that overall concept, although normal design development occurred before completion.
Details
- Status
- Built, and it follows the rendering.
- Where
- Cupertino, CA
- Neighborhood
- Cupertino
- Developer
- Apple Inc.
- Architect
- Foster and Partners (Norman Foster), with Apple's Jony Ive as design collaborator
- Rendering credit
- Foster and Partners
- The built result
- Photographed by Daniel L. Lu (user:dllu), 2018-04-15
Sources
- Wikipedia: Apple Park en.wikipedia.org
- The Architect's Newspaper: Foster + Partners unveils first glimpses of the new Apple campus archpaper.com
- Apple Newsroom: Apple Park begins opening to employees in April 2017 apple.com
- Foster + Partners: Apple Park fosterandpartners.com
- City of Cupertino: Apple Park project record cupertino.org
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