Apple Park HQ buttressed by Central & Wolfe 'AC3' campus in Sunnyvale, Calif.

Alongside the soon-to-open Apple Park, the iPhone maker's lesser-known "AC3" Central & Wolfe campus is also nearing completion, boasting many of the same environmental efforts that the main campus will provide.

Apple originally signed a lease with Landbank Investments LLC to occupy the firm's Central & Wolfe campus in late 2015, with the terms unknown, but said to be for 10 years. The site was purchased shortly thereafter by developer Jay Paul.

A website set up to showcase approved building designs reveals a trio of organically shaped, multi-story structures that connect around a central courtyard to create what looks like three-quarters of Apple's "command" key. Parking is primarily underground, with a central court capable of hosting food trucks, and some visitor parking.

The footage of the site, provided by Level 10 Construction, shows small parks, walking paths, and wide open spaces populated by local flora. The original plans were to landscape the roof, but it does not appear that to be currently planned based on a rendering of the completed building.

Curved windows in the Central and Wolfe site are reminiscent of those used in Apple Park's main structure.

It is not known when Apple plans to move in. The Central & Wolfe project is located across the street from the Sunnyvale Crossing seven-building development Apple is already leasing, and is 3 miles away from Apple Park.

On Feb. 22, Apple officially named the "spaceship" campus under construction. The entire facility is now called "Apple Park," with the 20-foot tall and 165 foot in diameter glass auditorium honoring one of the founders of the company and named the "Steve Jobs Theater."

An environmentally-friendly design was paramount to Jobs's vision, and Apple's related Phase 2 project adds additional workspace adjacent to the main headquarters, and includes a small data center powered by on-site the on-site solar farm, fuel cells, and other sources of renewable energy.

19 Comments

bloggerblog 2513 comments · 16 Years

About 7 years ago

They're using MS Windows?! :#

fmalloy 105 comments · 10 Years

'Course, if you live here you realize that Apple, and the cities of Sunnyvale and Cupertino, are doing ZERO to expand the roadway infrastructure. So while the fanboys can drool and swoon over these humongous buildings, those of us who live here are already choked in traffic, and once these behemoths open up and thousands more cars spew onto the freeways, it's going to be much worse.

And, I don't buy this "environmentally friendly" BS. They've cut tons of trees to build these monster complexes and who knows what else they do to the environment. Sure, solar farms help their energy bill, but nobody talks about how they're hurting the environment; all those bulldozers sure spew a lot of stuff into the air...

r00fus1 65 comments · 8 Years

bloggerblog said:

They're using MS Windows?! :#

Unlike other companies, Apple is secure enough in their products to not be concerned if other companies' products are used here and there. I know for a fact that one of my friends who worked at Apple years ago had to use Windows due to a specific software package (nowadays it's probably just cloud hosted)- IT even helped her setup & secure the BootCamp on the Mac Pro. Plus this is a contractor's computer - I really doubt Apple is going to force their entire supply chain to use macOS.

eightzero 3145 comments · 14 Years

bloggerblog said:

They're using MS Windows?! :#

This is all Tim Cooks fault. Level10 has to be one of those EXTREME Pro users, and they can't get an EXTREME Pro level machine from Apple!

fmalloy said:

'Course, if you live here you realize that Apple, and the cities of Sunnyvale and Cupertino, are doing ZERO to expand the roadway infrastructure. So while the fanboys can drool and swoon over these humongous buildings, those of us who live here are already choked in traffic, and once these behemoths open up and thousands more cars spew onto the freeways, it's going to be much worse.

And, I don't buy this "environmentally friendly" BS. They've cut tons of trees to build these monster complexes and who knows what else they do to the environment. Sure, solar farms help their energy bill, but nobody talks about how they're hurting the environment; all those bulldozers sure spew a lot of stuff into the air...

Right. Because the workers and their vehicles just appeared out of thin air. No, they're being routed from other buildings. Cupertino has always been Apple-country. Were you here in the 80s and 90s? Seemed like half the buildings were Apple ones - though they were space inefficient. I do think it's a pity that more tax revenues aren't being paid to local cities to allot for road/infrastructure usage.