175-acre "Apple Park" in Cupertino, California gets ready for inauguration in April 2017 (Photo : Youtube/apfelspot)
Apple announced that Apple Campus 2 will be opening for employees to move in this April, while officially naming the site "Apple Park." Accommodating more than 12,000 employees to the site will take more than six months, the company said and few smaller building construction and landscaping will proceed into the summer.
In honor of the late CEO Steve Jobs - who would have turned 62 on Friday, Feb.24 - Apple announced that the theater at Apple Park will be named as "Steve Jobs Theatre." Macrumors reported.
The theatre will be one of the buildings that will be inaugurated later this year, and is situated at one of the highest point on the campus, overpassing the nearby meadows and the large circular main building at "Apple Park."
"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," Tim Cook, Apple's CEO says.
"The workspaces and parklands are designed to inspire our team as well as benefit the environment. We've achieved the most energy-efficient building of its kind in the world and the campus will run entirely on renewable energy."
Apple's press release also sheltered a collection of other buildings at "Apple Park", including a visitor's center that will include a complete Apple Store and café, both of which will be offered to the public. Apple worked in partnership with Foster + Partners to construct Apple Park, that spreads across 175 acres and will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy.
The Steve Job Theatre will have 1,000 seats and feature an appealing 20-foot-tall glass cylinder entrance, 165 feet in diameter, crowning the equally impressive metallic roof made of carbon fiber.
"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," Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs' widow says.
"He would have flourished, as the people of Apple surely will, on this luminously designed campus."
The main building, most often referred to as the Spaceship Building, trea'sured with an impressive 17-megawatt rooftop solar power, which means that the new "Apple Park" will run as one of the world's largest solar power installations when it launches in April.
