Preliminary plans to relocate the downtown Apple Store to the site may mean the fountain would be dismantled. Liz Hafalia/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 5 of14 Sculptor Ruth Asawa arranges figures for the casting of her fountain for the plaza on the Hyatt Hotel at Union Square. Arthur Frisch/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 4 of14 Head of retail Angela Ahrendts talks about the new Apple building and the Ruth Asawa fountain sculpture on Post at Stockton streets has a media tour in San Francisco, California, on thursday, may 19, 2016. Liz Hafalia/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 3 of14 Sculptor Ruth Asawa and photographer Imogen Cunningham view details from Asawa's whimsical fountain on the plaza at the Hyatt Hotel at Union Square in 1973. The Levi store will soon be replaced by a new Apple Store where plans apparently seem to remove the fountain. Leah Millis/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of14 Visitors enjoy Ruth Asawa's 'Hyatt on Union Square Fountain' at the triangular plaza behind the Levi's store in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, May 24, 2013. It is the only part of the campus open to the public.1 of14 People walk past the back of the new Apple store during its grand opening on Post and Stockton streets in Union Square in San Francisco, Calif. At 1 Infinite Loop is an Apple Store selling Apple equipment and souvenirs. This represents almost 40% of the 8,800,000 square feet (820,000 m 2) of office space and facilities for research and development available in the city. In total, including nine newly acquired buildings on Pruneridge Avenue, the company controls more than 3,300,000 square feet (310,000 m 2) for its activities in the city of Cupertino. Some of these buildings are leased (with an average rental cost of $2.50 per square foot), and others are of recent acquisition the land that the new buildings occupy is for future construction of a second campus in the city for centralization. Beyond Infinite Loop, the whole Apple Campus occupies an additional thirty buildings scattered throughout the city. Employees refer to these buildings as IL1 to IL6 for Infinite Loop 1–6. The main building has the address 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California. The street, in conjunction with Mariani Avenue, actually does form a circuit (or cycle) that can circulate indefinitely. Each building is numbered with one digit on the private U-shaped street Infinite Loop, so named because of the programming concept of an infinite loop. The Apple Campus is located on the southeast corner of Interstate 280 and De Anza Boulevard, and occupies 32 acres (130,000 m 2) in six buildings spread over four floors. Location Ī wall of flatscreens and servers at the Apple Campus's executive briefing center No injuries were reported, but the forty-year-old building suffered $2 million of fire damage. The firefighters worked until morning to extinguish the fire. On the night of August 12, 2008, a fire started on the second floor of the building Valley Green 6. Steve Jobs's actions included banning employees' pets and dramatically improving the cafeteria menu. Apple increased the number of occupied buildings, and many activities not related to R&D were moved to the buildings on Infinite Loop, gaining "IL" designations. With the return of Steve Jobs to Apple in 1997, changes were made to the campus. Until then, the buildings were referred to as R&D 1–6. Before 1997, activities on the campus were exclusively research and development. Construction began in 1992 and was completed in 1993 by the Sobrato Development Company. The land east of Mariani One across De Anza Boulevard where the campus was built was originally occupied by the company Four-Phase Systems (later acquired by Motorola). Inside Apple Campus, from outside Caffe Macs, looking toward IL6Īpple's corporate headquarters was originally located at Building 1 on 20525 Mariani Ave in Cupertino.
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