Amaya Toman Apple Park, Apple's recently completed new campus, is among the closely watched complexes. The giant circular main building nicknamed "spaceship" or "giant Home Button" attracts attention in particular. Among other things, its construction is made up of huge single pieces of glass. The building also includes a cafe and canteen for employees, which is hidden behind huge sliding doors. Their impressive opening was recently caught on video by Tim Cook himself.
Cook posted the video on his Twitter account on Wednesday. The uproar is no wonder. The doors of the cafe in Apple Park are not just ordinary sliding doors, as we know from, for example, shopping centers. They are truly massive and extend from the floor to the ceiling of a giant circular building.
"Lunch time at Apple Park is a little more interesting again," Cook writes.
Lunchtime at Apple Park just got a whole lot more exciting? pic.twitter.com/GJFcOsIB4C
- Tim Cook (@tim_cook) August 16
Double doors were among the first features to be installed in the "space" building in the middle of Apple Park. The panels serve not only as an entrance to the cafe and dining room, but also as protection. Already on the famous shots of Apple Park from a bird's-eye view, filmed by a drone, it was possible to notice that the doors occupy a significant part of the perimeter of the building.
But Cook's video is the first ever opportunity to see this extraordinary architectural element in full action. It is not clear whether this is a premiere for the doors as well, or whether they have been opened before. However, Apple had previously offered Apple Park visitors a glimpse of their unfolding through an ARkit presentation in the visitor center.
Apple loves glass - it is the dominant material in the premises of Apple retail stores as well. With the help of glass walls and other elements, Apple tries to eliminate artificial barriers between indoor and outdoor space. The San Francisco flagship among apple stores has sliding doors with a similar effect to the giant ones in Apple Park. Part of the Dubai Apple store is a huge balcony equipped with "solar wings" that open and close depending on the weather.
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Plans for Apple Park, previously called "Campus 2", were first presented to the world by Steve Jobs in 2011. The construction of the massive building began in 2014 with the demolition of buildings originally belonging to Hewlett-Packard. The apple company then revealed the official name Apple Park in 2017. The gradual transfer of all employees to the new building has not yet been completed.
