Apple CEO Steve Jobs has shown off plans for the company's brand new Head Quarters after making an appearance infront of the Cupertino City Council to show them his vision.
Jobs explained his initial attraction to the site, as it previously belonged to his childhood idols Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard.
Whilst the firm's existing central campus holds 2,600 workers, the vast number of Apple employees means that a number of additional premises are currently being rented, radiating away from the core campus. Jobs wishes to combat this issue by forming a major new building which also has positive connotations for Cupertino as a whole.
Steve Jobs went to the council meeting after officially unveiling Apple's iOS 5, iCloud and, of course, OS X Lion - the talismanic leader of Apple, who is still on medical leave, pitched the plans for revamped headquarters to the Cupertino City council.
The artist impression shows off a circular 'spaceship' HQ showcased in Jobs' plans is a four-story building that will be able to accommodate 13,000 employees on the site, which is the previous home of HP.
Apple are touting the credentials of the new HQ, which is currently as car park, as they would restore the land with apricot orchards which take up 20% of the land and they want to up that to 80%.
The initial concept design was referred to as a 'spaceship', its circular form encompassing vast amounts of commercial space, with leisure facilities, cafes and R&D spaces for employee use. There will also be a main auditorium volume where many of Apple's key presentations will take place. The site itself currently has 3,700 trees with native apricot orchards, however Job's vision - with help from an expert arborist from Stanford University - is to increase this number to 6,000 with additional fruit groves.
Further fighting the eco front, Jobs declared the planned Apple HQ; a facility he said would be the "best office building in the world," would utilise natural gas and other clean energy as its primary power source. Apple intends to begin production of its new Cupertino home next year ahead of a 2015 move.