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Apple's Core: Dissecting The Company's New Corporate Headquarters

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This story appears in the November 22, 2015 issue of Forbes. Subscribe

Two years after  Apple got the green light to build a 175-acre campus on Hewlett-Packard's hallowed former grounds in Cupertino, Calif., the "spaceship" has (nearly) landed. Designed by Foster + Partners—helmed by legendary British architect Norman Foster—the project will be complete in late 2016 at a reported cost of $5 billion. No less an aesthete than the late Steve Jobs deemed it "the best office building in the world."

From the drone's-eye view:

Photo: Emory Peterson