Apple new HQ is getting closer to completion

The new Apple HQ is getting closer to completion. The complex in Cupertino is the last project of Steve Jobs. His last public appearance was on a meeting in the local municipality where he presented the project.

You can read more about the building in the last issue of Wired and in the video you can see the interview on CBS with the journalist that wrote the article.

Apple Park includes a visitors center with an Apple Store and cafe open to the public, a 100,000-square-foot fitness center for Apple employees, secure research and development facilities and the Steve Jobs Theater. The parklands offer two miles of walking and running paths for employees, plus an orchard, meadow and pond within the ring’s interior grounds.

Designed in collaboration with Foster + Partners, Apple Park replaces 5 million square feet of asphalt and concrete with grassy fields and over 9,000 native and drought-resistant trees, and is powered by 100 percent renewable energy. With 17 megawatts of rooftop solar, Apple Park will run one of the largest on-site solar energy installations in the world. It is also the site of the world’s largest naturally ventilated building, projected to require no heating or air conditioning for nine months of the year.