Apple Park Opens to Employees in April
February 22 2017 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Theater to be Named for Steve Jobs
Apple® today announced that Apple Park, the company’s new
175-acre campus, will be ready for employees to begin occupying in
April. The process of moving more than 12,000 people will take over
six months, and construction of the buildings and parklands is
scheduled to continue through the summer.
Envisioned by Steve Jobs as a center for creativity and
collaboration, Apple Park is transforming miles of asphalt sprawl
into a haven of green space in the heart of the Santa Clara Valley.
The campus’ ring-shaped, 2.8 million-square-foot main building is
clad entirely in the world’s largest panels of curved glass.
Steve would have turned 62 this Friday, February 24. To honor
his memory and his enduring influence on Apple and the world, the
theater at Apple Park will be named the Steve Jobs Theater. Opening
later this year, the entrance to the 1,000-seat auditorium is a
20-foot-tall glass cylinder, 165 feet in diameter, supporting a
metallic carbon-fiber roof. The Steve Jobs Theater is situated atop
a hill — one of the highest points within Apple Park — overlooking
meadows and the main building.
“Steve’s vision for Apple stretched far beyond his time with us.
He intended Apple Park to be the home of innovation for generations
to come,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “The workspaces and parklands
are designed to inspire our team as well as benefit the
environment. We've achieved one of the most energy efficient
buildings in the world and the campus will run entirely on
renewable energy.”
“Steve was exhilarated, and inspired, by the California
landscape, by its light and its expansiveness. It was his favorite
setting for thought. Apple Park captures his spirit uncannily
well,” said Laurene Powell Jobs. “He would have flourished, as the
people of Apple surely will, on this luminously designed
campus.”
“Steve invested so much of his energy creating and supporting
vital, creative environments. We have approached the design,
engineering and making of our new campus with the same enthusiasm
and design principles that characterize our products,” said Jony
Ive, Apple’s chief design officer. “Connecting extraordinarily
advanced buildings with rolling parkland creates a wonderfully open
environment for people to create, collaborate and work together. We
have been extremely fortunate to be able to work closely, over many
years, with the remarkable architectural practice Foster +
Partners.”
Apple Park will also include a visitors center with an Apple
Store® and cafe open to the public, a 100,000-square-foot fitness
center for Apple employees, secure research and development
facilities and the Steve Jobs Theater. The parklands offer two
miles of walking and running paths for employees, plus an orchard,
meadow and pond within the ring’s interior grounds.
Designed in collaboration with Foster + Partners, Apple Park
replaces 5 million-square-feet of asphalt and concrete with grassy
fields and over 9,000 native and drought-resistant trees, and is
powered by 100 percent renewable energy. With 17 megawatts of
rooftop solar, Apple Park will run one of the largest on-site solar
energy installations in the world. It is also the site of the
world’s largest naturally ventilated building, projected to require
no heating or air conditioning for nine months of the year.
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction
of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in
innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV.
Apple’s four software platforms — iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS —
provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower
people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple
Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s more than 100,000 employees
are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving
the world better than we found it.
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