Apple hasn't even finished construction on its first spaceship-style campus, but it's reportedly signed a lease on a second one, reported the Business Insider. The new futuristic project has already named Central & Wolfe. The campus will be built in Sunnyvale, just five miles south of the first spaceship in Cupertino. The so-called Central and Wolfe campus designed by the architecture firm HOK is being developed by Landmark Investments. Though the deal has not been confirmed, but the transactions have been completed. Apple has leased, not purchased, the property, and it's still unclear when construction will begin, reported the Quartz. The Central & Wolfe campus will span 18 acres, replacing nine buildings of a business park built more than 40 years ago. When construction is completed the site will look radically different, as the old buildings will be replaced with three connected and almost completely circular main edifices. Each of these three new buildings will have a central atrium, and more than half of the campus is considered open-air. (And that's not even including the optional rooftop gardens.) There will also be, of course, all the amenities we've come to expect from these massive Silicon Valley campuses. Included in the plans: an on-site bank, a cafeteria, a fitness center, a coffee bar, a conference center, a 500-person outdoor amphitheater, food truck access "in and around the quad," a barbershop, athletic fields and courts, a bike repair shop, and a general store. There will also be 2,582 total parking spaces, but only 12 of them will be on the surface of the campus - 1,170 spots will be underground, and the other 1,400 are located in an above-ground garage.
The new US Apple headquarters, which is scheduled to put into operation in 2015, will exceed the size of the Pentagon-the building of US Department of Defense, reports macobserver.com. According to publication journalist's calculations, the diameter of the building of Apple is about 492 meters. A circle that would circumscribe the Pentagon has a diameter of 477 meters. It should be noted, that Pentagon is the largest office building in the world. It has approximately 26 thousand employees, and building's 5 floors have about 604 thousand square meters total area. As mentioned by Mac Observer, the diameter of new headquarters will exceed Empire State Building height in New York (443.2 meters high), and cruise ship and US nuclear aircraft carrier length. According to another source cupertino.org, construction of the complex is due to start next year. The 260 thousand square meters campus will be designed for 13 thousand employees. The campus would comprise an office, research and development building, thousand seat corporate auditorium, fitness center, research facilities, central plant and associated parking. Currently, the project must undergo environmental review and studies for impact on traffic in the Cupertino City, and finally it will be adopted. Apple is now vying with oil giant Exxon Mobil for the title of most expensive company in the world.
