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A New Campus for Apple

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Last week, Apple submitted final plans to the Cupertino City Council for the their new campus. In June, Steve Jobs presented the campus to the City Council. It was his final public appearance before his death in October.

The new campus has been described as a space ship because of its round design. What the architects have been able to do is create a four story round building with courtyard that will house up to 13,000 Apple employees. Apple has quickly out grown its current campus on Infinite Loop (which it will keep) and is currently renting office space elsewhere in Cupertino. The new campus will allow employees to be in one place.

Landscaping now (left) and in the future.

Apple purchased part of the land from HP a few years ago and has since purchased some of the adjacent property, giving Apple a total of 150 acres in the center of Cupertino. Apples plans for the landscaping of the property is astounding. They have hired an arborist from Stanford University to help them choose various plants and trees native to area. The completed campus will be 80% landcape as opposed to the current 20% landscape. The plan calls for a total of 6,000 trees, including apricot trees which were on the property prior to HPs purchase of the land in the 1960s. Apple will be able to accomplish this by placing the majority of the property underground.

The floor plan for one of the four levels of the main building.

The buildings on the campus will only make up 20% of the 150 acres and will consist of the four level “space ship,” a four level parking structure, an energy center (to provide power to the campus), an auditorium, a fitness center, and several research and development buildings. The center piece of these structures is the round main building which will be constructed primarily from glass. Apple is known for using glass in its retail stores, but this will be a new challenge as the glass will all be slightly curved to create the round design. In total, the  building will be approximately 3.1 million square feet. The plan calls for ground breaking in 2012 and completion in 2015.

From the street, the buildings will be barely visible.

Jobs described the campus as an architectural achievement and the drawing certainly suggest a level of genius in the design. Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs revealed that this campus was one of Jobs’ final projects at Apple and it is a fitting symbol of his and Apple’s attention to design and functionality.

You can view the full plans submitted to the City Council HERE.

Watch Steve Jobs present the new campus to the City Council:

Steve Jobs Interviews

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I have always looked to Steve Jobs as a role model and have admired his innovation, business strategies and presentation style.  Over the next several days, I am going to be posing several articles, videos and images as a tribute the innovator of our time: Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was not one to give many interviews, but when he did they were always very open and honest.  Here is a collection of some of Steve’s greatest interviews.

1. This interview is from the mid 1990s.  It is short, but he discusses his memories of Apple and his roles at Pixar and NeXT.

2. Steve’s greatest speech.  His commencement address at Stanford University in 2005 came shortly after his first battle with cancer.  He offers sound advice and some new information about his life.

3. Steve appeared at the All Things Digital conferences often, but in 2007 the audience got a rare treat: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates on one stage.  Although they competed, their mutual respect for one another is obvious.

4. A rare television interview on MSNBC following the 2007 announcement of the iPhone.

5. Steve appeared at All Things Digital for the last time in 2010.  All topics were on the table including Google, Adobe, the infamous lost iPhone, etc.  There are other videos of Steve at the All Things Digital Conferences, you can view their Steve Jobs page, HERE.  (This vide is part 1 of 10, you can click the links at the end of the video to continue to part 2.)

6. This is not an interview, but it is the last time Steve appeared in public.  He appears before the Cupertino city council to present designs for Apple’s next campus.  It is a shame he will never walk through its doors.