Apples New Home

Apple has a new place to call home… in 2016.

If you haven’t heard yet, Apple wants to make a new headquarters in Cupertino, California, and they want it to look like a future aged, spaceship-like structure. The first images of this building were leaked in 2011 and we haven’t heard much about the project since then.

Just recently, a gaggle of new images were released to give us an idea of what this mothership of a building will look like. Essentially it will look like a giant shiny doughnut with state of the art technology throughout the whole building, underground parking for 2000, and an underground auditorium. The building was designed by architect Norman Foster, the designer of the well-known Gherkin in London and Reichstag in Berlin.

The main building is said to hold 13,000 engineers and developers with other buildings located to the south of the main building to hold many more for R&D of Apple products. The scenery around the buildings will be very green and inviting. Apple wants to make it as green as possible to make it not feel like you are at work, but more like a trip to the park. The site will be fresh with fruit trees, greenery, a fountain and even a nice area to eat called “the glade”. The whole site will be approximately 80% landscape and 20% structure, making it one of the greenest properties of this nature out there.

The budget for the building is at 5 billion dollars right now, but will probably keep growing until they finish the building. This will definitely be something to be jealous of if you are one of Apple’s competitors and perhaps would persuade some of the newer developers to choose Apple over the competitors generic work spaces.

The completion date for this project is set for 2016.