Happy Birthday Steve Jobs, they are naming a theatre in Apple Park in your honour

If Jobs was alive, he’d be 62 today. Apple is honouring his memory by naming a theatre in Apple Park after him.

Apple Park is the company’s new campus, and will be ready for employees to start moving in April. The 12,000 staff move is predicted to take over six months. Construction of the buildings and parklands is scheduled to continue through the summer.

The Steve Jobs theatre will be a 1,000-seat auditorium sat atop a hill, one of the highest point in Apple Park, overlooking meadows and the main building. The campus is 175-acres, with an iconic 2.8 million-square-foot ring-shaped building commonly dubbed as the “spaceship”.

Apple Park also have a visitors center with an Apple Store and cafe open to the public, a 100,000-square-foot fitness center for Apple employees, secure research and development facilities and the Steve Jobs Theater. The parklands offer two miles of walking and running paths for employees, plus an orchard, meadow and pond within the ring’s interior grounds.

“Steve’s vision for Apple stretched far beyond his time with us. He intended Apple Park to be the home of innovation for generations to come,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “The workspaces and parklands are designed to inspire our team as well as benefit the environment. We’ve achieved one of the most energy-efficient buildings in the world and the campus will run entirely on renewable energy.”

“Steve invested so much of his energy creating and supporting vital, creative environments. We have approached the design, engineering and making of our new campus with the same enthusiasm and design principles that characterize our products,” said Jony Ive, Apple’s chief design officer.

Designed in collaboration with Foster + Partners, Apple Park replaces 5 million square feet of asphalt and concrete with grassy fields and over 9,000 native and drought-resistant trees, and is powered by 100 percent renewable energy. Apple Park also claims they will run one of the largest on-site solar energy installations in the world.

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