Ask yourself, is it good that a company headquarters is roughly the size of the Pentagon? Or should that be a red flag? I jest. Somewhat. But that's basically the size of Apple's new building, proposed by CEO Steve Jobs, although a bit of a smaller footprint overall. Check out the graphic below from the Mercury News.
试想一下，某个公司的总部办公楼和五角大楼一个规模，好还是不好呢？它会不会成为众矢之的呢？开个玩笑。但是据乔布斯表示，苹果的新总部办公楼正是这个尺寸，尽管总体的实际办公区域更小了。一起来看看水星报提供的对比图。

从左到右依次是超美金字塔（1500人办公）、惠普总部大楼（20000人办公）、五角大楼（23000人办公）以及苹果新办公大楼（12000人办公）

In a presentation before the Cupertino City Council on June 7, Jobs said, "Apple's growing like a weed."
6月7日，在库比蒂诺城市委员会做演说之前，乔布斯表示，“苹果的发展如雨后春笋一般。”

He said they have almost 12,000 people in the area and were renting buildings at an ever greater radius from their campus. They have a plan that allows them to stay in Cupertino and "continue to pay taxes." Apple bought some land formerly owned by Hewlett Packard, and have designed an unusual building.
他表示，苹果总部的办公人员数量已达12000人，并且租来的办公区域的辐射半径正在持续扩大。他们的计划是让所有人员都能留在库比蒂诺并且能够“继续贡献税收”。苹果之前买了一段曾属于惠普公司的地皮，并且设计了一座造型奇异的办公楼。

"It's a little like a spaceship landed," Jobs told the council. Here's what the building will have:
“它看起来就像是一架着陆的宇宙飞船，”乔布斯在委员会上说。以下是该建筑的一些数据：

• 4 stories high
• 楼高4层

• 3.1 million square foot sphere of glass
• 310万平方英尺玻璃球面结构

• energy-generating center
发电中心

• 150 acres of land
• 总占地150亩

• capable of holding 12,000
• 可容纳12000人

• auditorium
• 大礼堂

• employee gym
• 员工健身房

• cafeteria that can hold 3,000 people
• 可容纳3000人的咖啡厅

• some aboveground but mostly underground parking
• 大部分位于地下、小部分位于地上的停车场

• research facilities
• 科研设施完备

• move-in: 2015
• 投用时间：2015年

• 6,000 trees and apricot orchards
• 6000棵树木以及若干片杏园

• 80 percent of the land will be landscaped
• 百分之八十的区域会被打造成园林式景观