Apple reportedly closes deal on huge Sunnyvale campus
Apple has reportedly signed a lease for a 770,000-square-foot campus to be built in Sunnyvale, Calif., a stone's throw away from its Campus 2 "spaceship" currently under construction in Cupertino, expanding the company's already substantial presence in the area.
According to the Silicon Valley Business Journal, Apple inked a deal with Landbank Investments LLC to occupy the firm's forthcoming Central & Wolfe campus. While terms remain unknown, the publication believes Apple chose to lease, not buy, the development.
A website set up to showcase approved building designs reveals three organically shaped, multi-story structures that connect around a central courtyard to create what looks like a three-petaled flower. It is not yet known if Apple intends to stick with the proposed architecture, but as it stands, the design can support up to 3,000 employees.
In keeping with Apple's eco-friendly image, plans for the Sunnyvale campus call for small parks, walking paths and wide open spaces populated by local flora. Workers will be able to look out on the green expanse from curved windows reminiscent of those used in Campus 2's disc-shaped main structure, a striking design that has been coopted to some extent by major tech firms building out new Silicon Valley headquarters.
Developers have not yet set a concrete construction timeline for the Sunnyvale complex and it is currently not known when Apple plans to move in.
Interestingly, the Central & Wolfe project is located across the street from a seven-building development Apple is already leasing. That complex, called Sunnyvale Crossing, is comparatively smaller at about 290,000 square-feet and can reportedly accommodate some 1,450 workers.
According to the Silicon Valley Business Journal, Apple inked a deal with Landbank Investments LLC to occupy the firm's forthcoming Central & Wolfe campus. While terms remain unknown, the publication believes Apple chose to lease, not buy, the development.
A website set up to showcase approved building designs reveals three organically shaped, multi-story structures that connect around a central courtyard to create what looks like a three-petaled flower. It is not yet known if Apple intends to stick with the proposed architecture, but as it stands, the design can support up to 3,000 employees.
In keeping with Apple's eco-friendly image, plans for the Sunnyvale campus call for small parks, walking paths and wide open spaces populated by local flora. Workers will be able to look out on the green expanse from curved windows reminiscent of those used in Campus 2's disc-shaped main structure, a striking design that has been coopted to some extent by major tech firms building out new Silicon Valley headquarters.
Developers have not yet set a concrete construction timeline for the Sunnyvale complex and it is currently not known when Apple plans to move in.
Interestingly, the Central & Wolfe project is located across the street from a seven-building development Apple is already leasing. That complex, called Sunnyvale Crossing, is comparatively smaller at about 290,000 square-feet and can reportedly accommodate some 1,450 workers.
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I love the hints on the webpage: the quote by Walter Issackson, and then "A workplace designed to FOSTER ingenuity," and "The blending of art (humanities?), science (technology?), and nature."
Spacely's Sprockets, or Cogswell's Cogs?
Huh! Another dang 'Land Grab'...
Don't you know Apple's products are named after raincoats, not fruit varieties???
The design are OK, but this is still from the old school Curbusier of monumental building in the middle of large expanses (natural instead of man made so small progress) with a Loyd Wright influence... (not as massive, concrete , lots of outside being brought in).
Density of occupation of those sites is stil woefully low and I'm guessing another car centric devellopment; how do you walk to anything from there.... Power hike?
Between that and the country house on a large lot that led to the bungalow and suburbs eventually, there's not much there : back to the future as they say.
Just call it Apple. Plain and simple. Apple California.
"Still waiting on the iJacket."
The design are OK, but this is still from the old school Curbusier of monumental building in the middle of large expanses (natural instead of man made so small progress) with a Loyd Wright influence... (not as massive, concrete , lots of outside being brought in).
Density of occupation of those sites is stil woefully low and I'm guessing another car centric devellopment; how do you walk to anything from there.... Power hike?
Between that and the country house on a large lot that led to the bungalow and suburbs eventually, there's not much there : back to the future as they say.
I've been a huge fan of Apple architecture. Apple has accomplished the hard task of making modernist architecture (e.g. corbusier, meis van der rohe, etc.) actually work, by taking it out of its self imposed box. Many of the principal tenants are imbued in Apple's buildings: simplicity, truthfulness (no false/faux coverings/materials), transparency (exterior view is consistent with interior structure), simple materials (glass, stone concrete, wood), and assimilated (to a 'reasonable' extent) with the local community (Apple's habit of restoring historical structures, incorporating local materials, etc.). In addition, Apple has abandoned the silly dogma of mechanically managing interior spaces, and has opened itself up to making structures that relate on a humanistic level, evoking feelings and anticipating thought processes, more akin to the refinements of the Parthenon than the boxy rooms of modernist buildings. Apple architecture is another fantastic example of Apple bridging the gap between technology/science (modernist architecture) and art (humanistic interaction).