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The main building’s scale and circular groundscraper design, by Norman Foster,[8] have earned the structure the media nickname “the spaceship”.[9][10][11] Located on a suburban site totaling 1.46 km2 (360 acres), it houses more than 12,000 employees in one central four-story circular building of approximately 0.26 km2 (64 acres). Apple cofounder Steve Jobs wanted the campus to look less like a business park and more like a nature refuge; 80 percent of the site consists of green space planted with drought-resistant trees and plants indigenous to the Cupertino area, and the center courtyard of the main building features an artificial pond.[11] The main building’s scale and circular groundscraper design, by Norman Foster,[8] have earned the structure the media nickname “the spaceship”.[9][10][11] Located on a suburban site totaling 1.46 km2 (360 acres), it houses more than 12,000 employees in one central four-story circular building of the center courtyard of the mai [11] Located on a suburban site totaling 1.46 km2 (360 acres), it houses more than 12,000 employees in one central four-story circular building of the center courtyard of the mai [11] Located on a suburban site totaling 1.46 km2 (360 acres), it

In April 2006, Apple’s then CEO Steve Jobs announced to the city council of Cupertino that Apple had acquired nine contiguous properties to build a second campus, the Apple Campus 2.[12] [13] The idea for a new headquarters was conceived by Jobs and Apple’s then chief designer Jony Ive.[14] Ive was Apple’s immediate choice to design the project, going on to work very closely together with Norman Foster across five years, designing every detail, from the glass panels to the elevator buttons.[15][16]

Purchases of the needed properties were made through the company Hines Interests,[17][18] which in at least some cases did not disclose the fact that Apple was the ultimate buyer;[18] Philip Mahoney).[18]