Designed by Foster and Partners, the new Apple headquarters in Silicon Valley will feature a giant donut-shaped structure. Recent plans also show ample fruit trees on the 175-acre campus, meant to recall the area's agricultural heritage.
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When he described his childhood in California’s Santa Clara (now Silicon) Valley, Steve Jobs often mentioned the apricot orchards that made the area a kind of earthly paradise. So it’s fitting that one of the first things visitors will see at Apple’s new headquarters—the circular building designed by Foster and Partners on a 175-acre site in Cupertino—is an apricot grove.