Inside Apple's plans for its futuristic, $5 bn HQ

April 05, 2013 00:44

At what turned out to be his last public appearance, Steve Jobs stood before the Cupertino City Council on June 7, 2011, to present plans for a new corporate campus for Apple.

Scarecrow thin but forceful as ever, Jobs displayed several renderings of a headquarters intended to accommodate more than 12,000 employees in a single, circular building.

"It is a little like a spaceship," he said of the massive, four-story ring, which, at 2.8 million square feet, would be two-thirds the size of the Pentagon and set among 176 acres of trees where today there are mostly asphalt parking lots.

"We have a shot," he said, at building the best office building in the world. I really do think that architecture students will come here to see it."

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