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Apple Campus 2

It will measure 260’000 square meters (almost 25 soccer fields), it will generate its own energy and host 12,000 employees. The impressivenew Apple headquarters is on track. And has left everybody amazed.

The group of architects behind the “Apple Campus 2” has published the first outline of the project, a circular building which will be built in Cupertino, California, starting 2012 until (hopefully) 2015. The 260,000 square meters will be distributed on four floors where 12,000 employees will work for the company founded by Steve Jobs and will have its own energy center generating the watts needed.

The project includes an auditorium with a capacity of one thousand people, 27,000 square meters dedicated to the research department and two underground parking lots, plus an outdoor lot that is four stories high. “We have put all our experience building stores for everybody, and now we know how to produce the biggest glass installations for excellent architects from all over the world”, Jobs said when he presented the design of the building whose exterior parts will have curved glass. “It’s a quite surprising building. It’s like a space ship that has landed. It has this wonderful patio in the middle…It’s a circle. There are curves all over. Everything is curves”, added Jobs and recognized that “it’s not the cheapest way of building something”.