Quick answer: Apple’s headquarters is Apple Park, at 1 Apple Park Way in Cupertino, California. The 175-acre campus centres on a ring-shaped, four-storey main building of about 2.8 million square feet, designed by Foster + Partners, and was reported to cost about $5 billion. The main campus is a private workplace, but the public can visit the Apple Park Visitor Center across the road.
Apple Inc. is one of the world’s largest technology companies, known for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and AirPods. Its stock-market value passed $1 trillion in 2018 and has since been measured in trillions of dollars, a figure that changes daily with the share price. (Curious what a trillion dollars means in rupees? See our explainer on how much 1 trillion dollars is in Indian rupees.) Here are six things worth knowing about its headquarters.
1. How much did Apple’s headquarters cost?
Apple Park is one of the most expensive corporate headquarters ever built. According to CNBC, the campus reportedly cost $5 billion to build. Spread over its 2.8 million square feet, that works out to about $1,785 per square foot. Apple itself has not published a total cost; earlier reports put the budget at under $3 billion in 2011, rising to around $5 billion by 2013.
2. Is Apple’s headquarters open to the public?
Partly. The main ring building and its grounds are a private workplace for Apple employees. The public part is the Apple Park Visitor Center, at 10600 North Tantau Avenue, Cupertino, across the street from the main campus. It opened to the public in November 2017.
The Visitor Center is an Apple Store with a café and a roof terrace that looks towards the main building. Because it operates as an Apple Store, you can walk in during opening hours, and the original version of this article noted that visiting is free, which Apple lists on its website (for example, 10 am to 7 pm on most days and shorter hours on Sundays in October 2026). Check the current hours before you go.
3. How big is Apple Park?
- Campus: 175 acres (about 71 hectares), according to Apple.
- Main building: about 2.8 million square feet (roughly 260,000 square metres), clad in what Apple described as the world’s largest panels of curved glass.
- People: Apple said in 2017 that more than 12,000 employees would move in.
- Grounds: more than 9,000 native and drought-resistant trees, two miles of walking and running paths, an orchard, a meadow and a pond, according to Apple.
Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder, wanted the campus to feel like a nature refuge rather than an office park. Apple says the project replaced about 5 million square feet of asphalt and concrete with green space.
4. How many Apple headquarters are there?
Apple has one corporate headquarters: Apple Park, which employees began moving into in April 2017. Before that, the headquarters was the Infinite Loop campus, also in Cupertino. Apple Park replaced Infinite Loop as the company’s head office, though Apple still has offices in many other buildings in the area and around the world.
5. Apple Park in numbers
- Storeys: the main building has four floors above ground.
- Circumference: about one mile (roughly 1.5 to 1.6 km). The City of Cupertino’s project description, quoted by CNBC, put it at one mile; other published measurements give about 1.46 km.
- Parking: reports at the time put total campus parking at about 14,200 spaces.
- Solar power: 17 megawatts of rooftop solar panels, and Apple says the campus runs on 100% renewable energy.
- Steve Jobs Theater: a 1,000-seat auditorium, used for Apple product launches since September 2017.
- Fitness centre: 100,000 square feet, for employees.
6. Other interesting facts
- Address: 1 Apple Park Way, Cupertino, CA 95014, United States.
- Construction: Cupertino’s city council approved the plans in October 2013, and major construction ran from 2014 until the campus was completed in 2017.
- Architect: Foster + Partners, the firm founded by British architect Norman Foster.
- Engineers: Arup was the structural and services engineer.
- Ventilation: Apple described the main building as the world’s largest naturally ventilated building, expected to need no heating or air conditioning for nine months of the year.
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Apple’s headquarters?
At Apple Park, 1 Apple Park Way, Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.
Can you tour Apple Park?
Not the main campus. Visitors can go to the Apple Park Visitor Center at 10600 North Tantau Avenue, which has a store, a café and a roof terrace with a view of the main building.
Who designed Apple Park?
Foster + Partners designed it, working closely with Apple. Arup was the structural and services engineer.
When did Apple Park open?
Employees began moving in during April 2017, the Steve Jobs Theater hosted its first event in September 2017, and the Visitor Center opened to the public in November 2017.
How many people work at Apple Park?
Apple said in 2017 that more than 12,000 employees would move to the campus. Apple has not regularly published updated headcounts for the site.
This article was checked in October 2026 against Apple’s February 2017 announcement about Apple Park, Apple’s Visitor Center page, CNBC’s 2017 report on the campus cost and other published reports. Visitor Center hours change, so check Apple’s website before you visit.
