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A few kilometers from Apple headquarters in Cupertino is building like a colossal space ship structure, which soon will become its new campus. The online Popular Science published some fresh pictures of the building.



The round building has a circumference of more than a mile, lined on all sides of 1.23 million square feet (114,3 thousand square metres of curved glass panels. Received because of the futuristic design the name of the Spaceship (spaceship) campus will be 75% provided with electricity from renewable sources of energy from own production, while the remainder will be supplied by the energy company First Solar.



The structure is worth $5 billion will occupy an area of approximately 176 acres.



Apple claims that in the construction of the campus uses the world's largest construction elements made of curved glass weighing up to 3175 kg Construction glass was brought from Germany. The construction will take 4300 concrete slabs. The plate is hollow inside to allow the building to "breathe". It will not affect the strength of concrete structures.





The construction of the new campus will be completed in 2016. At the beginning of 2017 will be here to work Apple employees a total population of 13,000. The campus provides a Park with a pond, a small wood and the audience area more than 11.1 thousand m2, where will be future announcements of the company. published

 

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