![]() ![]() Thoughts On The Office Layoutīecause the campus hasn’t begun being built and no documents have been released as to what the interiors will be like. ![]() The ‘Shared Creativity and Collaboration’ element reminds me of Pixar’s campus – where Steve Jobs lobbied (no pun intended) for a large atrium that employees would spontaneously mingle and collaboration.īut with 14,200 employees scheduled to be on campus (!), it will be interesting to see how creative and collaborative things get. For a company that prides itself on a unified, secure experience throughout their products, it is fairly interesting to see a more unified, secure environment coming to the campus. According to the Apple Campus Wikipedia, their current campus has somewhere around 30 buildings. The fact that Apple states this means that their current corporate campus is incredibly fragmented. The main objective… is to redevelop the project site with a new, unified, secure apple campus.” A Unified Campus To Promote Shared Creativity and Collaborationīeyond simply making a great building, the company states the goal of the project is to ‘consolidate Apple’s engineers and support personnel into a single distinctive office, research, and development building. ![]() The 3-million sqft campus will teardown and replace some 30+ buildings and will be built on a campus that was previously owned by HP. In his presentation to the Cupertino city council, Steve Jobs noted that, “I think we do have a shot at building the best office building in the world and I really do think architecture students will come here to see this. Iconic Design For An Iconic CompanyĪpple is probably the world’s most iconic brand and their new headquarters campus, dubbed Apple Campus II, seems to be a physical manifestation of that reality. The bold design is the work of world-renowned architecture firm, Foster & Partners, who can claim such projects as the Millau Viaduct, the reconstruction of the Reichstag, the Swiss Re Building, and the Hearst Building as their own. Their Campus II project has had many articles ‘written about it’, but nothing really substantive that covers the entire topic – so I decided to have a go. Apple’s offices have been one of the most popular spaces, even without having proper photos. Since Office Snapshots began over five years ago, it has been a pleasure to show off offices from around the world.
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