Unusual, futuristic, or just downright odd? It seems they've run out of space and a new office is needed, so they were never going to just move into a vacant block, they had to build one from scratch and this is the new Campus 2 in Cupurtino, California, no doubt the obvious choice for such an organisation.
Probably the last great project of Steve Jobs (who is to say they're not all great projects?) at a cost of a mere $5bn or £4bn if you prefer.
With four levels above ground and three below, the building will contain a thousand seat auditorium, a superior gym and at least 300 000, square feet of research space, all due to become operational in 2017.
The chosen designer, Lord Foster, of the UK Was also the designer of London's St Mary's Axe, also known as the Gherkin, and the new Wembley Stadium.
The Campus, is about one third of a mile in diameter with about 2.8 million square feet of space and will have something like 3000 panes of a special curved glass. There will be a multitude of special bicycles for staff, to ride around the space and the entire building will run upon Solar Power and Natural Gas. The building has so far created about 1300 construction jobs.
The centre of the project will be an open parkland, with thousands of tree and plant varieties and a preserved century-old barn.
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