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Apple Park Visitor Center

Welcome to Apple in California. Apple Park has created a special place just for visitors. An architectural extension of the private campus, the Apple Park Visitor Center offers guests a place to learn, explore, shop, and more.

Created to illustrate the intention of building an office park that fits into the natural landscape, discover the Exhibition space within the Visitor Center that showcases the innovative design principles of Apple Park. Then, shop at the Store, which includes exclusive Apple and Apple Park branded merchandise. The merchandise is a highly curated selection of Apple products and accessories.

After exploring the Exhibition and Store, relax at the Apple Cafe. With comfortable seating both inside and out, the Cafe serves refreshments for guests to enjoy as they take in the surrounding olive grove. Lastly, head up to the Roof Terrace, which features a unique view of Apple Park and its rolling landscape.

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Here’s A Peek Into The Only Part Of Apple Park Open To The Public

The Apple Park Visitor Center is the ultimate Apple Store experience, with a roof terrace, cafe, and exclusive merchandise available nowhere else.

If you’re an avid Apple fan, consider paying a visit to the Apple Park Visitor Center in Cupertino for the ultimate Apple Store experience. The beautiful two-story building is the only part of Apple’s massive campus that’s open to the public , and it makes for an interesting peek into life for the highest echelon of Silicon Valley.

The Apple Park Visitor Center is the top dog of all Apple Stores , elevating the typical customer transaction into something that feels even more shiny and exclusive. Of course you can go shopping for Apple’s full range of products, but the rest of the space is dedicated to a full cafe serving coffee drinks and snacks, with ample seating and a pleasant roof terrace.

One of the most interesting elements is a large interactive 3-D model of the adjacent Apple Park , which is Apple’s enormous round fortress of a headquarters. Although the public cannot enter Apple Park, the model allows you to explore the era-defining building via augmented reality . It is the largest naturally ventilated building in the world and contains one of the world’s largest on-site solar energy installations. The gigantic groundscraper is a perfect circle covering approximately 64 acres , of which 80% is green space.

As for the Visitor Center itself, it’s unique for its giant carbon fiber roof which seems to float atop the substantial glass walls. In fact, the roof is only supported by the center stone clad core, meaning that there are no extraneous support beams to block the 360° view. Make sure you grab a seat on the roof terrace , which affords the best possible view of the adjacent Apple Park building from outside, as well as 9,000 drought-tolerant plants in the surrounding landscape.

The most devoted Apple fans will also have a chance to purchase exclusive Apple-branded merchandise at the Apple Store, including T-shirts, hats, playing cards, and tote bags. The Visitor Center is the only place in the world where you can buy these items.

Find the Apple Park Visitor Center at 10600 North Tantau Avenue in Cupertino , which is less than an hour drive from San Francisco. The Visitor Center is open from 10am-6pm Monday-Saturday and 11am-6pm on Sundays.

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Complete guide to Apple Park

Welcome to our complete guide to Apple Park, the extravagant, multibillion-dollar new campus headquarters that the company has almost finished building in Cupertino, California. It’s an impressive building – but not everyone is happy .

Apple is one of the biggest companies in the world, so it’s no surprise that it is fast outgrowing its current headquarters at One Infinite Loop in Cupertino, California. As a result, Apple has spent years building a new HQ. (It’s since announced plans for a second campus , incidentally.)

The new campus is officially named Apple Park. (Before this was announced, the building was widely known as the ‘Spaceship Campus’ because of its flying-saucer-like design.) It’s located on the former Hewlett Packard campus.

When will Apple Park be finished?

Construction was scheduled to be finished by the end of 2017, and the large-scale building work was mostly done earlier than this. Even now there is still plenty of exterior landscaping to be done, however. Jump down to the section of this article where we post aerial drone videos to see the latest progress.

Since April 2017, the 175-acre campus has reportedly been welcoming employees, but it’s set to take more than six months to move all 12,000 employees into the new site, and some construction will continue over the summer even as employees move in.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Apple design chief Jony Ive revealed that his team would be moving in during the autumn of 2017, and will be among the last teams to move to the new campus.

There will be major product launches at Apple Park before long.

Indeed, one of the most important additions to the Park is the Steve Jobs Theater, which is likely to be the only part of the building we see regularly. It’s a 1,000-seat auditorium located on a hill, one of the highest points within the Apple Park, and will no doubt be the site of the company’s future product launches – something Apple promised at its ‘ ‘Let us loop you in’ launch event in March 2016.

How much did Apple Park cost?

It was originally estimated that the campus would cost half a billion dollars; the land alone cost $160 million. But (as is generally the case with large building projects), costs have overrun. The budget for the new spaceship-like headquarters ballooned to a little under $3 billion in 2011 and almost $5 billion by 2013, although at this point it was reported that Apple was looking at ways to trim this by a billion.

Apple is known for its exacting demands when it comes to design, materials and so on, but the spiralling costs of this project have caused some controversy. Back in 2013, it was reported that angry shareholders were attacking the project and labelling it as wildly extravagant.

Then again, Apple can probably afford it. A final spend of $5bn is a huge outlay but would still represent only about 2.3 percent of Apple’s gargantuan cash reserves: $215bn in January 2016.

Energy efficiency & green credentials

During the March 2016 event, Apple CEO Tim Cook said: “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. 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.”

Most of the power for the facilities will come from an “on-site low carbon Central Plant”, according to an Apple Insider report . The structure is outfitted with solar panels around the top of the building, too.

Additionally, 7,000 trees are set to surround the campus. Apple has hired a leading arborist from Stanford University to help landscape the area and restore some of the indigenous plant life, including apricot orchards.

The new campus will reportedly use recycled water, too, and will use 13,300 feet of pipeline to share the supply between it and Cupertino.

Design, layout and facilities

British firm Foster+Partners is the architects of this colossal building. Previous projects include Wembley Stadium, Canary Wharf Underground Station, Stansted Airport, London’s Millennium Bridge, HSBC HQ at Canary Wharf, the Maclaren Technology Centre and the Hearst Tower in New York.

In an interview with Architectural Record, Foster+Partners founder and chairman Norman Foster explained that he was inspired by the idea of a London square, where houses surround a park. This eventually evolved into the present design: a circular structure surrounding a large outdoor park.

Foster also explained that, when planning the layout of the building, the architects had to consider the different departments that would need to work together, and considered vertical proximities as well as horizontal ones.

“Of course, you have got an enormous range of skills in this building: from software programmers to designers, marketing, retail,” he said. “But you can move vertically in the building as well as horizontally. The proximity, the adjacencies are very, very carefully considered.”

This open-plan layout used in much of the building – with most employees situated around large tables instead of separated into individual offices – is intended to promote collaboration. But it hasn’t gone down well with everyone.

John Gruber has reported hearing from numerous staff members who are unhappy with the setup.

“Judging from the private feedback I’ve had from some Apple employees,” he said, “I’m 100 percent certain there’s going to be some degree of attrition based on the open floor plans. Where good employees are going to choose to leave because they don’t want to work there.”

One of Apple’s VPs, indeed, went further.

“When [senior VP of hardware technologies Johny Srouji] was shown the floor plans, he was more or less just ‘F— that, f— you, f— this, this is bulls—.’ And they built his team their own building, off to the side on the campus… My understanding is that that building was built because Srouji was like, ‘F—- this, my team isn’t working like this.”

Apple Park, which is more than a mile around, also includes a visitor centre, with an Apple Store and café open to the public.

That’s in addition to a 100,000-square-foot fitness centre for Apple employees, 300,000 square feet of secure research and development facilities, and two miles of walking and running paths for employees, underground parking plus an orchard, meadow and pond.

1,000 bikes will be kept on the site and available to staff to get around the campus. Jony Ive has revealed that employees can travel on electric golf carts and commuter shuttles if they have a long way to go.

There will reportedly be custom-designed 18-foot tables by a Dutch company called Arco for Apple employees to take advantage of in open work spaces to discourage an office-like atmosphere. There will be 500 tables, and if put end to end would roughly be the length of the National Mall in Washington, DC.

Despite aiming to be self-sufficient and earth-friendly, the range of materials used in the construction will without a doubt be the top of the line. “As with Apple’s products, Jobs wanted no seam, gap or paintbrush stroke showing; every wall, floor and even ceiling is to be polished to a supernatural smoothness. All of the interior wood was to be harvested from a specific species of maple, and only fine quality ‘heartwood’ at the centre of the trees would be used,” an insider told Business Week.

Since Jony Ive’s promotion to Chief Design Officer, there has been speculation that he’ll be designing elements of Apple’s new campus, including desks and chairs to be used by employees.

Ive has said that there are four floors at the campus, to minimise the need for elevators. He has revealed that the Apple Watch team will be on the third floor, and his design team will join the executives on the top floor.

Apple Park security

Apple takes security very seriously: it has a lot of ideas and new products it goes to great lengths to protect. Therefore it is not surprising that in planning documents first filed back in 2013 Apple stated that its goal with the new campus was to: “Achieve the security and privacy required for the invention of new products by eliminating any public access through the site, and protecting the perimeters against trespassers.”

In an email exchange with city staff back in October 2013, an Apple executive actually haggled over the location of a single tree. “If we move the tree an additional 5 feet in, the tree becomes a security issue for us,” the exec wrote, according to an LA Times report . “People will be able to potentially climb the tree and hop the fence.”

With the new campus Apple is attempting to cut off access as much as possible to the public – and it is likely that even members of staff will not have access to all areas of the new building.

Aerial shots and drone videos

We’re fascinated by the progress of the Apple Park construction project. In this section of the article, we gather aerial shots and drone videos showing how things have developed over recent months: we start with our latest drone videos and photos and work back to the start of the work.

February 2018: The drone crash

The air above Apple Park appears to be thick with drones, but as far as we’re aware this is the first drone to actually crash into the building. It was eventually located among the solar panels on the roof. Here’s the footage that was taken before, during and after the crash:

September 2017

Matthew Roberts took a trip to Apple’s campus at sunset in late September to showcase just how close it is to completion, and it looks stunning.

A week prior to September’s iPhone 8 launch event, Duncan Sinfield posted this drone video showing Apple Park in a state of near completion.

August 2017

Matthew Roberts’ latest video shows construction wrapping up, as well as some close ups of the Steve Jobs Theatre.

Roberts has been publishing drone footage of the new Apple campus on a monthly basis. If you visit his YouTube channel you can see the videos that show how the new campus has been coming together.

Here’s the some more drone footage of the construction site, published by Matthew Roberts .

As with most of these videos, we have to point out that this was not shot in June, but near the end of May.

And here’s another video from Roberts for May…

…and one for April 2017.

By the end of February Apple Park was looking great, but construction was clearly still in process. At this point there was only a month to go until the headquarters opened.

January 2017

Matthew Roberts flew a drone right over the campus to show you what it looked like in January. As you’ll see, the garages have been completed, and are being used by construction workers; and an estimated 70 percent of the solar panels have been installed.

This video has been labelled ‘Feb 2017’ but we received the link on 30 January so we’re calling shenanigans on that.

Late January also saw this video, from Duncan Sinfield:

Matthew Roberts sent us another drone video earlier in January. The campus was certainly looking a lot more finished than it had done in previous months, but the weather meant that much of the landscape had been reduced to slushy, swampy mud.

December 2016

In December Apple sent photos of the seemingly near-completed Campus 2 headquarters to staff, and these were inevitably leaked. The French-language website MacGeneration got hold of them.

Here are a selection of the ones we liked best; visit MacGeneration for more.

Picture credit for this and the following three images: Apple/MacGeneration

Garden landscaping has started. Apple says there will be 3,000 trees on site

The site from the air

Late November 2016

Here are the two most recent drone videos of the site, both dated to December 2016 but actually shot right at the end of November 2016. Nearly there!

Here’s the second, shot by Matthew Roberts using a DJI Phantom 3 Professional:

November 2016

We return to the building site in November 2016.

September 2016

See the progress over at Apple’s new Campus via this next drone video, shot in September 2016.

August 2016

August’s drone footage showed great progress, with the building looking much closer to completion.

Below is drone footage of Apple’s new campus from April 2016.

February 2016

This video, shot in February 2016, showcases real progress on site and gives an idea of how vast Apple’s new HQ will be.

MyithZ recently posted another to showcase just how quickly the campus is being built (in glorious 4K, of course). You really get a sense of the size of the project, and the scale of the task at hand. Select parts of the building are now recognisable, including the hidden car park.

It’s fascinating to see how quickly the building work is coming along, and it seems that MyithZ seems to agree. Here’s his May 2015 update on Apple’s new campus:

Then, in April 2015, another video of Apple’s Spaceship campus was uploaded to MyithZ ‘s YouTube Channel in 4K:

February 2015

The drone-touting YouTuber went back with his drone in February 2015, showing us how much difference a month can make at Apple’s new campus.

January 2015

YouTube user MyithZ flew a drone over Apple’s ‘spaceship’ campus in January 2015. Watch the video below to see how the new campus was shaping up at the start of 2015.

Apple’s new HQ in London

In September 2016, it was announced that Apple will also be opening a new HQ in London, at Battersea Power Station – an iconic building in London. This building was the cover for Pink Floyd’s 1977 album named ‘Animals’ and led to its stardom. The building is 500,000-square-foot and can be considered one of the biggest office locations in London. Apple plans to move its 1,400 staff in the UK to the new Apple campus, after its £14/$17 billion investment. It’s set to open in 2021.

In October 2016, Business Insider UK shared a developer video showcasing a sneak preview of what Apple’s new London HQ would look like. The screen grab below shows just how big the development will be and how the iconic London landmark will be revamped. We’re excited to see more developments on the London HQ – we will be sure to update this article with any new additions.

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11 tips for visiting Apple's $5 billion headquarters, Apple Park

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The stunning building is completely circular and features walls made out of glass. Inside of the building, which is one mile in circumfrence, Apple employees are busy working on the company's next big thing, like the new iPhones expected to come out this September.

This means Apple Park is a special place for Apple fans and devotees. Many flock to Cupertino, California, about an hour south of San Francisco, every day to get a glimpse of what some call "the spaceship."

Here are a few tips to get the most out of visiting where Apple's magic happens: 

1. You'll probably need a car to get there.

There isn't much public transit in Silicon Valley, so tourists will need to find a way to get there from San Francisco or San Jose. A car is easiest. 

2. The actual campus isn't open to the public. You can walk around the perimeter, but you can't get inside to see either the "spaceship" building or the on-campus theater where Apple launches new products.

Apple CEO Tim Cook explained why there aren't tours for the public earlier this year. 

3. But there is a visitor's center that's open to the public. It's free to the public, located across the street from the campus, and there's plenty of parking.

It's located at 10600 N Tantau Ave, Cupertino, CA 95014, and you can find hours and other details at Apple's website . 

4. The visitor's center is an Apple store, but there's a lot to do there, including an AR experience, exclusive merchandise, and a cafe.

5. Don't miss the Apple Park augmented reality experience, which lets you peek into the campus through an iPad.

6. There are Apple Park T-shirts and other accessories you can't get anywhere else.

The shirts and other swag are a little bit pricey. 

7. If you need a pick-me-up, there's a cafe in the visitor's center with snacks and coffee. On a weekday morning, you might see Apple employees taking meetings in the sunny cafe, and the WiFi is fast and reliable.

Here's the menu — on an iPad, naturally.

8. The visitor's center is an Apple store, so you can buy an iPad, iPhone, or Mac if you wish — or a charger if you left yours at home. There is no Genius Bar or repairs available at the Apple Park visitor's center, though.

9. It's easy to miss the upstairs roof deck, but it's the highlight of the visitor's center. Look for the Jony Ive-designed stairs.

Once you're on the roof, you get the closest view of Apple Park available to the public.

That's a glimpse of a $5 billion building between the trees. 

10. It's a great place to take photos.

The best views of Apple Park are still from the air, though.

11. and if you still can't get enough apple, infinite loop, apple's old headquarters, is a 6-minute drive away..

There's an Apple store here open to the public, too. And it's where the iPhone was invented.

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Inside Apple Park, the Cupertino home base for employees

• Apple Park's massive, $5 billion headquarters is located in Cupertino, California.
• The campus includes the famous ring-shaped main building, a fitness center, a theater, and more.
• Besides a visitor center and gift shop, Apple Park is closed to the public.

Here's a look inside Apple Park, the company's massive, futuristic headquarters that opened in 2018 and cost $5 billion to build.

Apple Park is located in Cupertino, California, a short distance from the original Apple headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop.

The main building is a giant, multistory circle, colloquially known as "the ring" or " the spaceship ."

The cost of building Apple Park

The tech giant reportedly spent $5 billion on Apple Park construction . The ring is a stunning feat of design that blurs the indoor space with the environment outside, which has been landscaped with fruit trees (including apple trees, of course) and other native plants.

The building features incredible four-story curved glass windows, solar panels on the roof, and natural ventilation that reduces the need for heat/air conditioning.

The campus is also specially engineered to withstand earthquakes — its foundation sits on hundreds of movable steel saucers rather than being actually attached to the Earth, a design called "base isolation" technology.

Is it possible to visit Apple Park?

Apple Park is typically accessible only to employees, save for two areas: a visitor center at 10600 N Tantau Ave., and the Steve Jobs Theater, where Apple events are held to announce new products.

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The Steve Jobs Theater is named for the company's legendary co-founder Steve Jobs and can accommodate up to 1,000 people.

The visitor center is the only place the public is allowed on the campus without a pass, and it's free to enter. You can buy exclusive Apple merch there. There are Apple Park T-shirts and other accessories you can't get anywhere else.

The visitors center is an Apple store, but there's a lot to do there, including an AR experience, exclusive merchandise, and a cafe. Don't miss the Apple Park augmented reality experience, which lets you peek into the campus through an iPad. There is no Genius Bar or repairs available at the Apple Park visitor's center, though.

If you need a pick-me-up, there's a cafe in the visitor's center with snacks and coffee. On a weekday morning, you might see Apple employees taking meetings in the sunny cafe, the WiFi is fast and reliable, and the menu is on an iPad.

It's easy to miss the upstairs roof deck, but it's the highlight of the visitor's center. Look for the Jony Ive-designed stairs. Once you're on the roof, you get the closest view of Apple Park available to the public.

What is the capacity of Apple Park?

Apple Park features nearly 3 million square feet of office space and can accommodate about 12,000 Apple employees. That's a bit less than half of Apple's Bay Area workforce.

Who would get to work at Apple Park was a point of contention among the company's local employees. Executives, including Apple CEO Tim Cook and chief design officer Jony Ive, moved to the new campus, as well as software development teams and design teams.

Is Apple Park bigger than the Pentagon?

An interesting rumor emerged after the plan to build Apple Park was originally announced in 2011: Apple Park would be bigger than the Pentagon, the headquarters of the US military in Arlington, Virginia.

However, at 2.8 million square feet, it's significantly smaller than the Pentagon, which measures 6.5 million square feet.

Kif Leswing contributed to an earlier version of this article.

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Mirage at Apple Park 10600 N Tantau Avenue Cupertino, California, USA

Open every day Free to everyone

Mirage is located adjacent to the Apple Park Visitor Center.

The artwork is slightly set back from the street and pedestrian pathways. It has three entrances and pathways which are fully accessible.

The Apple Park Visitor Center is open 10-6 daily, Monday through Saturday, and open 11-6 on Sundays.

Apple Park: Everything you need to know!

Apple Park officially opened in April 2017 and has served as the headquarters of Apple, Inc. since then. The campus, often called the "spaceship" thanks to its circular main building, houses thousands of Apple employees and incorporates renewable energy and green space to make a truly unique corporate space.

Here's everything that you need to know about Apple Park.

May 30, 2018: Apple continues facilities expansion with new Santa Clara office

Apple has reportedly leased 62,000-sq. ft. of office space in Santa Clara, continuing its expansion into the Bay Area. From The Mercury News :

Apple has planted a new outpost in Santa Clara, leasing a four-decade-old industrial building where the tech titan has launched a wide-ranging renovation, public records show.Cupertino-based Apple leased a 62,000-square-foot building near the corner of Bowers and Walsh avenues, according to an official filing by the property owner with the Santa Clara County Recorder's Office.

Extensive construction was apparently taking place at this new facility earlier this month, though what that means for Apple, we don't know.

May 29, 2018: Apple reportedly signs deal with VW for driverless Apple Park shuttles

Apple has reportedly signed a deal with Volkswagen to bring several of the automaker's T6 transport vans to Apple Park, which would be paired with Apple's proprietary driverless vehicle software.

From The New York Times :

Instead, Apple has signed a deal with Volkswagen to turn some of the carmaker's new T6 Transporter vans into Apple's self-driving shuttles for employees — a project that is behind schedule and consuming nearly all of the Apple car team's attention, said three people familiar with the project.

Apple is said to have previously approached BMW and Mercedes-Benz to work on this project, with both companies turning it down due to Apple's data requirements.

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What is Apple Park?

Previously known as Apple Campus 2, Apple Park is also known by another unofficial nickname: the spaceship. The new campus serves as the primary headquarters of Apple, Inc, replacing 1 Infinite Loop, which is officially known as Apple Campus.

The distinctive circular design of the complex's main building sets it apart from other tech headquarters, as well as other buildings in the area. Where the campus at 1 Infinite Loop was laid out like a university, Apple Park takes a more modern approach to its design. Precisely engineered curved glass panels are placed around the circumference of the building, with the levels of glass separated by massive, hollow concrete slabs that do the same.

Where is Apple Park located?

Apple Park, like 1 Infinite Loop, is in Cupertino, California at 1 Apple Park Way. It sits on 175 acres, much of which has been devoted to green space. The new campus is just about a 10-minute drive away from Apple Campus.

Has the company abandoned 1 Infinite Loop?

Nope. Apple is large enough that it needs the space that both complexes provide, so the original Apple Campus is used as office and laboratory space.

When did work on Apple Park begin?

Steve Jobs, late Apple co-founder and former CEO, and Apple design chief Jony Ive began work on the design for Apple Park, then called Campus 2, in 2006, with Ive working closely with architect Norman Foster. Jobs himself presented architectural details to the Cupertino City Council in 2011. Demolition of the land began in late 2013.

The groundbreaking was originally slated to begin in 2013 for an opening in 2015, but delays meant that construction didn't start until 2014. Apple Park officially opened for business in April 2017, with teams continuing to move into the building throughout the rest of the year.

How much did Apple Park cost to build?

Apple Park cost around $5 billion, though it was originally estimated that it would cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $500 million. This jumped up to $3 billion in 2011, before landing on the final figure at some point in 2013.

What sort of facilities does Apple Park have?

The first and most notable facility on Apple Park is a massive circular main building. The massive building has a diameter of 1,512 ft. and a circumference of about one mile.

Another, smaller circular structure, the Steve Jobs Theater. It's composed of a circular lobby section, with the actual 1,000-seat theater being located underground.

Apple Park also hosts a 100,000 sq. ft. wellness center, which can be used by up to 20,000 employees from around Cupertino.

For members of the public that wish to visit the campus, there's the Visitor Center, a glass structure housing an Apple Store, featuring unique Apple merchandise, as well as educational areas that utilize technology like augmented reality presentations to educate visitors about the campus and the company.

Does Apple Park utilize renewable energy?

In recent years, Apple has made strides to use renewable energy across the company, and Apple Park is no exception. The roof of the circular main building is covered in solar panels, which generate 17 megawatts of power, with another four megawatts provided by biogas and fuels cells. Apple says that Apple Park also contributes some clean energy back to the Cupertino power grid during times of low occupancy.

Is it true that Apple Park breathes?

Apple Park's primary building is naturally ventilated, meaning that it doesn't utilize a traditional heating and cooling system. Chilled water tubing runs throughout massive concrete structures built into Apple Park, with the structures taking in outside air, chilling it with the water-filled tubing. This uses a much smaller amount of energy compared to traditional systems.

You mentioned something about green space?

Apple Park sits on 175 acres, about 80% of which remains as green space. Apple has planted drought-resistant trees in this space. The central courtyard in the middle of the main building features an apple orchard, as well as orchards for apricots and olives. The courtyard also features a large pond.

If you want to know more about Apple Park, let us know in the comments.

Joseph Keller is the former Editor in Chief of iMore. An Apple user for almost 20 years, he spends his time learning the ins and outs of iOS and macOS, always finding ways of getting the most out of his iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac.

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