How Steve Jobs’s dream is being put together

The doughnut ring will feature the world’s largest piece of curved glass. More than 3,000 sheets will wrap around its one-mile circumference, with the largest around 46ft long and 10ft high

The main building measures around 2.8million square feet – the equivalent of about 40 football pitches

Lord Foster, the British architect behind the project, also designed London’s ‘Gherkin’ skyscraper and Wembley Stadium

The design’s attention to detail even goes down to the buttons for the lifts. They are said to resemble the iPhone’s ‘home’ button

The doughnut is about one-third of a mile in diameter – the equivalent of 40 double-decker buses

The £4billion cost of Campus 2, which was not disputed by Apple CEO Tim Cooke in a 2015 interview, could buy 6,666,666 iPhone 7 handsets

The project has generated around 13,000 construction jobs

Apple’s hands-on approach has provoked the wrath of the local fire department. The firm wanted all signage to reflect its trademark sleek, minimalist aesthetic, while the services needed to ensure signs could be read clearly in an emergency

Campus 2 will include jogging and cycling trails, with more than 1,000 bikes kept on site at all times, which staff can use to make their way around.

More than 2,500 varieties of indigenous trees will initially be planted to return to the scenery to its former orchard splendour

Lord Foster said Steve Jobs wanted the site to be as green as possible to reflect his upbringing in California, when it was all ‘orchards – the fruit bowl of the United States’

The site, part of which was acquired from tech rivals Hewlett-Packard, was previously covered by concrete. Little remains of the former buildings, though Apple has preserved a century-old barn

The building is eco-friendly, with natural ventilation that works instead of airconditioning for 70 per cent of the year, low energy LED lighting where natural light doesn’t reach, and on-site recycling