At the beginning of the year at the annual shareholders
meeting with Apple CEO named approximate date of relocation to a new campus,
called the «Apple Campus 2." According to the statement by Tim Cook, the
new building of 12 000 employees that journalists are already calling
"spaceship", will be completed only in 2016.
Construction of the new office of the U.S. corporations not
only behind schedule, but also more expensive. According to Bloomberg, the
erection of a grand structure will have to spend at least $ 5 billion, which is
more than one and a half times higher than previous estimates.
The new headquarters
is one of the last projects of Steve Jobs, who proposed to build a huge
campus. By design, iPhone, office should look like a spaceship landed on Earth.
As a place under the building was chosen on the grounds Prunridzh Avenue, which Apple bought
from HP.
The new office, as you know, everything will be arranged. Spacious rooms, huge glass surfaces and apple
orchards - both outside the building and in the courtyard. And in the four
buildings will be used only curved glass. In the center of the "space
ship" will be an extensive fleet of 6,000 trees. Energy supply side
complex system based on natural gas and solar panels, provided presentation
room and a cafe on 3000 visitors.
On the design of the building works British architectural
agency Foster and Partners, which was engaged in the reconstruction of the
Reichstag in Berlin, designing Hearst Tower in New York City and the
"Millennium Bridge" in London.
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