AT APPLE’S CORE

Steve Jobs’ dream HQ a reality

Apple’s brand-new headquarters in Silicon Valley has every amenity under the California sun — except air conditioning.

More than five years after the death of cofounder Steve Jobs, the reported $5 billion Apple Park is a reality, complete with a 2.8 million-squarefoot main office called “The Ring.”

“This was clearly his vision, his concept. Our biggest project ever,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook, who took over when Jobs died in 2011.

Jobs’ influence is felt throughout the massive, glass-enshrined and treelined campus in Cupertino, Calif., based on stunning photos in the magazine’s June issue that hit newsstands Tuesday.

He started designing the 175-acre property in 2009.

The Apple visionary despised air conditioning and fans but didn’t want his employees opening windows either, so he insisted on a natural ventilation system.

“The flaps and the opening mechanism all have to relate to sensors that measure where the wind is coming from and how the air goes through it,” said Stefan Behling, one of the project leads.

The concrete floors are lined with tubes of water that are supposed to keep temperatures between 68 and 77 degrees.

“We want you to know what time of day it is, what temperature it is outside. Is the wind really blowing? That was Steve’s original intention, to sort of blur that line between the inside and outside. It sort of wakes up your senses,” said Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives.

There are 9,000 trees on the property, giving it a walkable campus feel, a 100,000-square-foot wellness and yoga center with stone-covered walls, and its cafeteria can fit 4,000 employees.

“If Steve could reappear, it would be as he conceived it when he last saw it as drawings,” said lead architect Norman Foster.

“This was a hundredyear decision,” Cook added. “And Steve spent the last couple of years of his life pouring himself in here at times when he clearly felt very poorly. Could we have cut a corner here or there? It wouldn’t have been Apple. And it wouldn’t have sent the message to everybody working here every day that detail matters, that care matters.”

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