Apple Park is the headquarters of Apple Inc. in Cupertino. Norman Foster of Foster and Partners designed it, working closely with Apple designer Jony Ive, and Arup was engineer. Apple announced the campus in June 2011, and Cupertino's council approved it on October 15, 2013. Construction started in 2014. Employees began moving in in April 2017. The article calls the style neo-futurism.
The main building is a four-story ring about 1,512 feet (461 m) across with 2,820,000 square feet (262,000 m²) of floor area. It uses aluminum, glass and concrete, curved glass panels and hollow precast slabs. About 9,000 trees fill the 360-acre site, which is 80% green. It is LEED Platinum certified.
The campus holds the Steve Jobs Theater, seating about 1,000, a Developer Center and an Observatory. Only the Visitor Center, which opened on November 17, 2017, is open to tourists. The article gives no hours.
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