Apple Park: The History Behind Apple’s $5 Billion Headquarters
Technology firms have engineered incredible growth in the past decade — and they’ve left their mark on urban landscapes by building enormous campuses. A recent example of this can be seen in Apple’s new five billion dollar headquarters located in Cupertino, California.
What looks like a giant spaceship parked up in the middle of suburban America, is actually Apple’s most ambitious project yet and is truly something to behold. Apple Park’s stunning architecture extends across one hundred and seventy five acres of land and serves as an iconic symbol of Apple’s dedication to design, green energy, and the future of technology.
Despite Apple Park’s incredibly futuristic looks, the campus has been a long time in the making with Steve Jobs himself first presenting the ambitious project to the Cupertino City Council back in 2006.
Jobs saw the rapid growth of the company and knew that their current campus at 1 Infinite Loop couldn’t last. So, Apple purchased land formerly owned by Hewlett-Packard; a company very important to Jobs’…
