Apple Park HQ buttressed by Central & Wolfe 'AC3' campus in Sunnyvale, Calif.
Alongside the soon-to-open Apple Park, the iPhone maker's lesser-known "AC3" Central & Wolfe campus is also nearing completion, boasting many of the same environmental efforts that the main campus will provide.
Apple originally signed a lease with Landbank Investments LLC to occupy the firm's Central & Wolfe campus in late 2015, with the terms unknown, but said to be for 10 years. The site was purchased shortly thereafter by developer Jay Paul.
A website set up to showcase approved building designs reveals a trio of organically shaped, multi-story structures that connect around a central courtyard to create what looks like three-quarters of Apple's "command" key. Parking is primarily underground, with a central court capable of hosting food trucks, and some visitor parking.
The footage of the site, provided by Level 10 Construction, shows small parks, walking paths, and wide open spaces populated by local flora. The original plans were to landscape the roof, but it does not appear that to be currently planned based on a rendering of the completed building.
Curved windows in the Central and Wolfe site are reminiscent of those used in Apple Park's main structure.
It is not known when Apple plans to move in. The Central & Wolfe project is located across the street from the Sunnyvale Crossing seven-building development Apple is already leasing, and is 3 miles away from Apple Park.
On Feb. 22, Apple officially named the "spaceship" campus under construction. The entire facility is now called "Apple Park," with the 20-foot tall and 165 foot in diameter glass auditorium honoring one of the founders of the company and named the "Steve Jobs Theater."
An environmentally-friendly design was paramount to Jobs's vision, and Apple's related Phase 2 project adds additional workspace adjacent to the main headquarters, and includes a small data center powered by on-site the on-site solar farm, fuel cells, and other sources of renewable energy.
Apple originally signed a lease with Landbank Investments LLC to occupy the firm's Central & Wolfe campus in late 2015, with the terms unknown, but said to be for 10 years. The site was purchased shortly thereafter by developer Jay Paul.
A website set up to showcase approved building designs reveals a trio of organically shaped, multi-story structures that connect around a central courtyard to create what looks like three-quarters of Apple's "command" key. Parking is primarily underground, with a central court capable of hosting food trucks, and some visitor parking.
The footage of the site, provided by Level 10 Construction, shows small parks, walking paths, and wide open spaces populated by local flora. The original plans were to landscape the roof, but it does not appear that to be currently planned based on a rendering of the completed building.
Curved windows in the Central and Wolfe site are reminiscent of those used in Apple Park's main structure.
It is not known when Apple plans to move in. The Central & Wolfe project is located across the street from the Sunnyvale Crossing seven-building development Apple is already leasing, and is 3 miles away from Apple Park.
On Feb. 22, Apple officially named the "spaceship" campus under construction. The entire facility is now called "Apple Park," with the 20-foot tall and 165 foot in diameter glass auditorium honoring one of the founders of the company and named the "Steve Jobs Theater."
An environmentally-friendly design was paramount to Jobs's vision, and Apple's related Phase 2 project adds additional workspace adjacent to the main headquarters, and includes a small data center powered by on-site the on-site solar farm, fuel cells, and other sources of renewable energy.
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And, I don't buy this "environmentally friendly" BS. They've cut tons of trees to build these monster complexes and who knows what else they do to the environment. Sure, solar farms help their energy bill, but nobody talks about how they're hurting the environment; all those bulldozers sure spew a lot of stuff into the air...
Please cite your links that show it's destructive.
The question I still have (I've raised it before) is what the hell are all these Apple employees doing? It's not like there's big lines of new products. Apple has been relatively slow to release new products the last few years and they have seemingly abandoned accessory lines like monitors and WiFi routers. They've been slow to release updates of the Mini and Mac Pro. They haven't been doing much with apps. Most of the products they have released have been incremental variations on what's come before. And it's also rumored that they've abandoned the Apple Car development. So what is it that requires all these employees and facilities?
Based on this new facility being 800,000 square feet (I don't know whether that includes the garages and grounds or not), it would seem this facility would hold another 2000 to 4000 employees.
Either Apple is working on some very major secret project that they've managed to keep quiet (like robots) or....I don't even know what the "or" would be.
Half of them are rewriting EULAs...
Their busy on the jogging paths and in the fitness center. After that they go to a juice bar. The perks employers have to offer to attract talent.
They abandoned product lines that don't support their long term strategy, that's it.
If the Mac min and Mac Pro doesn't support either, they'll do that to. So, please quit the fraking whining.
Actually, around Apple Park they have added lanes to the streets and are upgrading the Wolfe Road exit off of I-280. True, the cities aren't paying for this-- APPLE is. In addition Apple is growing their in-house bus fleet and are paying for upgrades to the infrastructure to support the new facility.
Please don't comment about things you know NOTHING about.
Apple has stated that the new buildings will use 100% renewable energy and are some of the most efficient buildings in the world. The facility will be completely covered in solar panels and will use fuel cell technology to take up the slack. This is similar to other facilities Apple has across the country, including their data centers in North Carolina, Oregon, and Nevada.
When you state "They've cut tons of trees" you DO realize that they haven't cut ANY, right?
They have preserved the fully-grown trees that were already on the site, which are in storage and will be replanted. They have also been growing new trees for several years now offsite, some as far as hundreds of miles away.
The site will be 80% covered in trees, up from the 20% coverage it had before-- when they finish there will be over 8000 trees, up from 3616 when HP owned the property. Apple is spending quite a bit on trees alone. That really doesn't sound like a lot of damage to the environment, frankly.
By the way, when you write in a message that "who knows what else they do to the environment." you are saying you don't know yourself, so the comment does nothing to support your point of view. Just sayin'.
Again, please keep your stupid comments with no basis in reality to yourself.
References:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/apple/52-facts-about-apples-spaceship-campus-february-drone-video-3489704/
http://venturebeat.com/2016/06/04/a-look-at-apples-insanely-ambitious-tree-planting-plans-for-its-new-spaceship-campus/
Whilst on the subject of the Spaceship, I may have missed it but the ubiquitous helicopter pad seems missing. Then again normally it would be atop a new structure which is kind of difficult with a massive donut I guess. Has anyone spotted one yet? Not to mention a hatch that opens for hordes of flying cars to emerge from, which of course is the solution to your well perceived problem.
As to the green aspect, I'd wager solar farm envirmonenrtal damage, including the prep work pales in the long run compared to fossil fuel alternatives. That said, I'd agree there is a lot of open spaces in the US where they can be built with a lot less environmental damage for sure plus give great shelter to lizards underneath! However, use of roof tops in CA and other urban areas is fine surely? I see massive sites are going up in Morocco and India, the price/KWH for the latter coming in under any other competing fuel source thanks to the latest tech. Absent interference by biased fossil fuel lobbyists the World at large seems to be forging ahead thank heavens. Here I suspect it's a 'sad' future in the short term so Kudos to Silicon Valley companies at least.
All TVs are iterative products. Are TV manufacturer employees doing no work when they produce a new one? Are they instead conjured from a magical well?
And the world turns.....
I knew a guy who had to put on a presentation at thr Apple campus. He brought his PC laptop and said "I know I'm not using a Mac...." amd him and the employees all just had a laugh.
When i asked him why he didn't have a Mac his reply was "I can't afford one". People all have their opinion of what they can afford and different priorities but this guy wasn't lower class, just a penny pincher.
Nowadays its its like that with android. Most people WANT iPhone, most can't afford one.
This is a company that makes the best computer and mobile devices hardware consistently for decades. It is also the one that makes the best, most secure, most reliable, and most frequently updated software to run on its devices. Apple has it's own publishing platforms, designs the best mobile chips in the world, has the most successful and profitable retail chain, highest rated consumer support in any industry. They even design the third party components they buy from others like LG, Samsung and Sony. It is also not a secret that they spend time, money and energy on secret projects that they don't like to talk about until they are ready for customers. They don't distract you and make you believe they are building the future by buying (and eventually selling) flashy companies, announcing vaporware concepts, or releasing half-baked beta products no one cares about.
Apple is still a very compact company for what it does. Compare its employee numbers, products and services to Microsoft, Google or Samsung's