Apple's New Headquarters (27 pics)

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Here's one of the first looks we've had inside the building. Note the iPod Nano banners: Apparently, Apple ads are the only art that'll do for Apple Campus 2

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Slated for completion sometime in 2016, the new headquarters will inarguably be a stunning place to work. Here: the cavernous cafeteria

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Office life will spill into a verdant landscape on both the inside and outside of the ring

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The project was helmed by the firm of star architect Norman Foster

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Though by Foster's account, Steve Jobs was hands-on from the start

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An overhead view of the main building: 2.8 million square feet with room for 13,000 employees

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A visitor's entrance

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Employees who arrive by bus will enter at the Corporate Transit Center, with a walkway flanked by two Apple Store-white staircases

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A field leading up to the entry way for the new corporate auditorium

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This pristine pavilion is where press will mingle at future events

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The pavilion from above

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From here, visitors will descend into an underground auditorium with seating for 1,000

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Another view of the pavilion

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The mothership, glimpsed from the auditorium's meeting area

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Apple's Senior Arborist David Muffly is one of the team members working on the landscape design efforts

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Here, a glimpse at the sleek tunnel that will deposit drivers in the parking garage underneath the headquarters

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The Transit Center and main entryway to the spaceship, seen from above

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A view from inside the above-ground parking garage on the southern end of the property

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The parking garage will have solar panels on top and plants drizzled down the sides

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Another view of a street on the outside of the campus

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Cars will arrive at a security checkpoint on the western edge of the campus

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A view of the Transit Center, where buses will roll in

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A closer view of where Apple employees will get their workout on

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An entrance to the campus

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Another view of the entryway

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Employees lounge on the lawn outside Apple’s future ringed headquarters