Apple announced last week that its new "spacecraft" headquarters has been officially named "Apple Park." It will be put into use in April this year. Apple Park will house 12,000 employees, and it will take about six months for all of these employees to settle in. Apple also announced the name of the venue in Apple Park "Steve Jobs Theater" (Steve Jobs venue).
It is understood that the new headquarters will include a visitor center with an Apple store and cafe open to the public. Apple employees can also use a 100,000-square-foot fitness center and a 2-mile long runway with gardens, lawns, and pools.
In fact, in addition to the above information, Apple's new headquarters also has the following 30 cold knowledge that you don't know.
1. How big is Apple Park? You know when you compare
Apple Apple Park's shape is a ring-shaped atrium-style plaza. To this end, many fruit powders call it the "space ship headquarters", but the local residents of Cupertino have updated plans to call them "doughnuts." The new headquarters of Apple has a total of 708,000 square meters. The building has only four floors and a total construction area of ​​260,000 square meters, which can accommodate 12,000 employees.
So how big is Apple Park? Let Mac Observer author John Martellaro tell you that it compares it to the Pentagon and a few other things. From top to bottom: luxury cruise ship; nuclear-powered aircraft carrier; US Navy MZ-3A airship; battleship during World War II; Empire State Building; supertanker.
2. Originally Apple's original plan was very low-key.
In 2006, during the conception phase of Apple's new headquarters building, Apple bought 200,000 square meters of land – part of HP's old campus. But by 2010, HP decided to move completely, so Apple bought another 400,000 square meters of land. Then there is the big ring of the present.
3. The intern of the current intern (Steve Jobs)
The entire new Apple Park was originally the site of the office building of Hewlett-Packard Company. Speaking of it, Jobs’s first summer internship at the age of 12 was here. In February 2014, Apple blew up all of the original 24 HP buildings, making the building area suddenly larger than the current 2.8 million square feet.
4. Apple's new and old headquarters are only 1000 meters apart
Apple's existing headquarters was put into use in 1993, and in 1997 the house number was changed to "Unlimited Loop Road No. 1." Now the new Apple Park is located 1km from the existing Apple headquarters, and the road sign is "19111 Pruneridge Avenue". Not sure if the future number will change like the old headquarters.
5. The utilization rate of ApplePark land is much higher than that of the old park.
In fact, in the new headquarters, the land occupied by the building is smaller than the existing headquarters, but has a larger office space. This is because Apple put most of the parking lot underground. So even though there are more cars to park, there are fewer cars on the ground.
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Comparison of the relevant figures of Apple's new and old parks
6. Apple Park - the world's most expensive corporate headquarters
In 2013, Bloomberg’s assessment of ApplePark’s cost was $5 billion. The current CEO Tim Cook was asked the same answer when asked about this number on a TV interview. Reuters quoted a former construction manager with information that only $1 billion was spent on the interior renovation of the main building. In contrast, the New World Trade Center complex in New York cost $3.9 billion; the new Porsche North America headquarters was completed in 2015 at a cost of $100 million.
In fact, this money is small money for Apple, because Apple's fourth quarter 2016 financial report released recently showed that the company's cash reserves have reached 246 billion US dollars.
7. Apple Park's design team has foreign aid
It is known that Apple Park's design has already begun in the Jobs era, and Apple's chief designer Jony Ive is also the dominant force. However, Apple is still looking for the architectural design firm Foster + Partner to cooperate, and eventually has a stunning masterpiece of Apple Park.
It is understood that Norman Foster has always been closely related to Apple, and the latest version of the Apple Store retail store is also the result of his participation. As for Jony Ive, don't say more. He participated in most of Apple's product design and played a key role in the design of the new building, including even designing chairs and tables for the building.
8. Apple Park is Steve Jobs’ childhood impression
It looks like a spaceship, curved glass, floors can't be too high, enough green... these are the requirements of Jobs. It is understood that Jobs’s youth memory also has some connections with this building. Not far from Steve Jobs is Stanford University. The campus's Main Quad has his ideal design elements, creating a vacant lot that accommodates historic buildings such as Rodin sculptures and Houf Tower. Jobs once gave a speech to graduates here. "Follow your heart" comes from this.
9. Apple Park also draws inspiration from the City Square in London.
Foster led the design team of more than 70 people to participate in the design of the Apple Building, with reference to the ring structure of the City Square in London: the building is arranged in a circular direction with an open space in the middle, which makes the building compact enough and frees up enough space. area.
At the same time, this Foster is also very good at the huge architectural design. Foster once said that architecture must be "big enough." Among his past works, Beijing Capital Terminal T3, Hong Kong HSBC Head Office Building and London Imperial War Museum are extremely large buildings.
In addition, the design of the structure can be more interesting in the design of large buildings. You will see Foster 603806, which is used in different large buildings, such as the museum's gherkin structure or the sloping ellipse of the London City Hall.
10. Apple Park's restaurant has 5,500 square meters
Apple Park has a restaurant, fitness center and parking for its employees. Like the previous generation of Apple Building, tens of thousands of employees went to a restaurant to eat in the park.
This restaurant has 5,500 square meters. If you follow Apple's current treatment methods, the chef and waiter will all be Apple's own employees and will not be outsourced like most companies.
There is also an auditorium for 1,000 people in the open space in the middle of the ring, which is a separate building. According to Apple’s announcement, the venue was named “Steve Jobs Theaterâ€.
There is also a 200-square-meter "visitor center" outside the ring, including a cafe and an Apple Store where you can buy souvenirs. Separate buildings include parking lots, R&D centers, and sports fields.
11. Apple Park was originally scheduled to be completed in 2015
In 2006, Jobs announced to the Cupertino City Council that Apple had acquired nine adjacent buildings for the construction of a second headquarters.
In 2011, Apple filed an application with the City of Cupertino, and Jobs attended the municipal discussion.
In 2013, the new headquarters project was approved by the government.
In 2013, the start date was postponed for one year and is scheduled to be completed by 2016.
In 2016, Apple again postponed the opening date to “Spring 2017â€.
In 2017, it is confirmed that it will be stationed in April.
12. The construction lasted nearly 4 years and the contractor changed two
On November 20, 2013, two years after the death of Jobs, Apple obtained a complete building permit.
In 2014, construction began. After two weeks, the central ring made rapid progress and the parking lot on the expressway began to build. The Apple Insider documented the progress of the construction, showing the ring design of the building and the prototype of the Jobs Auditorium.
In June 2015, Apple replaced the building contractor. Due to delays in construction contractors Skanska and DPR and a large increase in costs, Apple lifted its partnership with them. The new contractors that Apple replaced later were Rudolph & Sletten Inc. from Silicon Valley and Holder Construction, based in Atlanta.
Beginning in 2016, the construction progress of the Apple headquarters building began to accelerate. In February 2017, solar panels have been laid 70%, and most of the glass has been installed, which is quite different from a year ago.
13. Carbon fiber roof, weighing 80 tons
To commemorate Jobs, Apple named the auditorium in the new campus the Steve Jobs Theater. This large auditorium, which can accommodate 1,000 people, will become the product release center of Apple in the future. But the biggest highlight of the auditorium is its roof. It is also known as the world's largest unsupported carbon-fibre roof. It consists of 44 fan-shaped structures that need to be assembled and tested in the desert of Dubai before being shipped back to the US. The weight reaches 80 tons.
14. Create ApplePark like an iPhone.
The process of construction, like making an iPhone, Apple's ultimate in the pursuit of product details is also preserved in the design of the building. For example, the inside of the ceiling - the side that only the maintenance worker can see - also needs to be polished like the outside. Jobs often said that the carpenter would not use rotten wood on the side of the furniture against the wall.
This year, Reuters found 20 current or former employees working for the building and got some interesting details. According to these employees, Apple sees the Apple Campus 2 as a huge iPhone – from pipes and glass to elevators to buttons – all following the stringent standards of hardware design.
It is a 30-page guide that Apple provides to contractors for the use of wood.
15. Apple refers to its own products in the design of the building
German architect de la Torre said that Apple asked the elevator's button to look like the Home button of the phone. Apple executives believe that the Home button is an ideal size, a standard, and has been designed for many years.
16. Apple’s aesthetics are generally not available.
Apple thinks we can't have a threshold. A former construction manager explained that this is because if employees step into the building because the threshold changes their gait, they will be distracted from their work.
The conference room door handle design, Apple let the contractor rework for a year and a half. When the time is up, the person in charge of the other party has left.
The fire station opened 15 meetings for the fire sign. Because Apple dislikes the original GM's fire sign too ugly, redesigning all the signs in the building to make them look both practical and simple aesthetic. However, each design must be approved by the Fire Department. Dirk Mattern, former deputy director of the Santa Clara County Fire Department, and Apple held 15 meetings. He said, "I have never spent so much time on the fire sign."
17. Apple's details require horrifying
At the time of final delivery, even fingerprints cannot be left behind. The District Council, the contractor responsible for the paint, said that the workers could not leave fingerprints when they finally delivered the building, so the workers had to wear gloves.
18. Apple Park uses the world's largest curved glass
The entire circular façade of the Apple Building uses the world's largest single curved glass. These glasses come from Apple's long-term partner, Sedak, Germany.
There are several terrible numbers about glass. The entire building requires 3,100 pieces of monolithic glass, the heaviest of which has a weight of 3 tons. A total of four floors have adopted such a structure, with a circumference of more than 1.6 kilometers.
Each curved glass outside the Apple Building is quite large, 14 meters long and 3 meters high. The length of the glass facing the central square on the inside of the building is 11 meters.
19. A separate glass used by Apple Park
To transform these large glass into the shape of the curved surface, a complicated process is required. First, they need to be combined by two glass laminates and then processed at a temperature of 600 degrees Celsius. It is then cooled by cold air and finally heated to a curved surface in an autoclave at 130 degrees Celsius.
Apple also has extremely stringent requirements on building tolerances. The dimensional accuracy of glass is higher than the highest quality glass in the world (the actual size and display size is 1/8 inch), and the error is no more than 1/32 inch (about 0.88). Mm).
The glass itself adds to the difficulty of construction, but Apple also requires that there should be no vents or pipes that are reflected on the glass to affect the look and feel.
20. A piece of glass is 3 tons in weight but can be moved
According to Foster, the headquarters building will also have some four-story glass that can slide away like a door. They can be moved. At the Apple store in Apple's San Francisco Union Square, there are already giant movable glass doors (6 x 12.8 meters). The glass in the Apple headquarters building will be twice as high.
21. Why does Apple Park use large areas of glass?
In addition to being related to Jobs, this is also Ive's personal preference. Ive prefers to design with glass, and his current office is a separate space with glass on all sides.
22. Apple Park pays attention to environmental protection
Solar panels are placed on top of the building, generating 17 megawatts of electricity. All of the electricity in Apple's planned building comes from photovoltaic power generation. The remaining electrical energy can also be used as an alternate energy source or sold externally.
23. Apple Park domestic water can also be recycled
Apple invested $17.5 million to build a nearby Sonnyville area and local booster pump facility with a total length of 4054 meters. A huge circulating water treatment system that filters non-potable water into reclaimed water to serve the garden facilities in the park. These circulating waters can also be supplied to urban residents of Cupertino, which accounts for a quarter of the circulating water in the local city.
24. Use natural ventilation, no air conditioning for 9 months
Apple Park does its best to use natural wind ventilation, and the giant glass doors that can be opened are prepared for this. Apple said it does not use air-conditioning or heating for nine months of the year.
The same design concept is also used in the Apple Plaza in Union Square in downtown San Francisco. It has a pair of huge glass doors in front and behind, which will be kept warm when it is cold, and open when it is hot.
25. Hire a Stanford gardener to adjust the park ecology
In order to create an ecosystem within the garden, Apple invited Stanford arborist Dave Muffly to introduce 309 plants. The vegetation coverage in the park reached 80%, and a total of 7,000 trees were covered in the central park.
26. Is the tree not only for viewing, but also for restaurant sources?
The main vegetation in the apple park is oak. In addition to this, there are many fruit trees that can be eaten, such as apple trees, apricot trees, persimmon trees, plum trees and cherries. Some of them will be used to supply apples to restaurants.
Purple dots represent plum trees, orange represents apricot trees, brown is an olive tree, red is a persimmon tree, pink is a cherry, and yellow is an apple tree.
27. Apple Park internal commuting relies on bicycles
To facilitate internal mobility, Apple provided 1,000 bicycles to its employees in the park. This large ring is like a large stadium, so Central Park is also very suitable as a running place.
28. The traffic system has a lot of thoughts and 2000 parking spaces.
The new campus has a two-story underground garage with 2,000 parking spaces. The transportation system also extends beyond the ring, and Apple has added 20% of commuting facilities, such as short-haul buses. At least one-third of the employees will benefit from it, so they don’t have to drive to work.
If you really want to drive, the way to enter the park is to drill into the underground tunnel, which leads directly to the underground parking lot of Apple Park.
29. Question from Apple Park
Criticism of the new park is mainly focused on the “big†of Foster's design philosophy. The architectural columnist of The New Yorker criticized this huge building as a human being. After all, architecture itself was a tool, and Apple's design was "the Pentagon of the 21st Century."
Although the City Hall approved the project, there are also local residents who worry that the headquarters will become Cupidino's “Taj Mahal†– a large number of fruit powders pouring into the “pilgrimageâ€, putting tremendous pressure on traffic and the environment.
Until today, the voice of criticism has not stopped. Louise Mozingo, professor of landscape architecture and environmental planning at the University of California at Berkeley, believes that the design of the huge circular building connecting to the central building will, to a certain extent, make indoor traffic difficult. Environmentally friendly, green plants, and a variety of ingenious designs, Apple Park is indeed a park, but this can not hide the price it pays for the symbol.
30. The Apple design team may have too many things on hand.
Ive's industrial design team led the design of all Apple hardware products for the past 20 years. The team is famous for its small size, only 20 people, but is responsible for the industrial design of all Apple product lines. In contrast, Samsung Electronics has 1,600 industrial designers.
It is also worth mentioning that the Apple industrial design team is also quite stable. In the 20 years from 1996 to the present, a total of 7 people left, 4 of them died.
(Editor: Zhao Ran HZ002)
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