Apple Park glimpses seen in first-ever video of the campus from the inside
Apple has largely kept its Cupertino headquarters named Apple Park a secret from the outside world. In a first-ever recording of the interiors of the campus, we get glimpses of how Apple's biggest office in the world looks from the inside.
In Short
- Insides of the Apple Park can be seen in a first-of-its kind video online.
- The video sprawling hallways and large glass doors throughout the main office.
- The campus also includes football fields, tennis courts and in-door gaming areas.
Apple Park has often been ranked among the best office campuses in the world. Since its opening in 2017, the spaceship campus has been a subject of curiosity for Apple fans around the globe. However, just as much as it is able to incite interest, Apple Park also keeps its inhabiting structures a secret from the outside world. A new video now changes that.
The Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, has now been shown in never-seen-before footage shared by the French news channel TF1. The video depicts the Apple Park in its entirety, showing the gigantic ring-shaped campus as well as the adjoining areas housing sports structures and medical facilities. It even provides glimpses of how the main office looks from the inside.
From what can be seen in the video, Apple Park consists of several sports structures at one edge of the campus. These include a couple of football fields, tennis courts as well as in-door sports areas. Adjoining these is the medical facility within the campus on one edge.
The video also shows a TF1 reporter interacting with some Apple executives inside the ring-shaped building. That is when the grandeur of the Apple headquarters hits you, with its enormous, automated entry doors and large hallways going around in a circle throughout the building's shape.
The TF1 report mentions that the building is built this way to promote a walking culture among Apple employees, in line with the ideology of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The employees are often motivated to conduct their meetings while walking around the campus in order to bring creativity in their ideas.
At the time when the video was shot, not many employees were present at the campus because of the ongoing work-from-home protocol. Because of this, many of the doors can be seen shut within the office. However, we can have a pretty good look at how the office shapes up, with glass panels throughout to enable a completely transparent workplace.
Then there are dedicated areas for processes related to manufacturing or recycling. There is even a robot that can be seen dismantling rare metals from smartphones for recycling.
Other than a tour of the campus, the TF1 report also mentions some of Apple's ongoing efforts. Interacting with Apple executives, it reveals that the company is prioritising work on health features in its products. In addition, it also continuously attempts to attain the utmost sustainability in its manufacturing and other processes, thus slowly negating all of its carbon footprint on Earth.