Apple Campus 2: Concept images of the new Cupertino campus

This is what the Cupertino-based Apple campus will look like from the sky. It is expected to house around 12,000 people and have revolutionary technologies built into the very fabric of the design.

"There's no chancethat we're saying no. The mothership has really landed here in Cupertino", the city's mayor, Gilbert Wong, said in June.

In June, Steve Jobs appeared at the Cupertino City Council to discuss the plans of the next-generation Apple campus. 

"We'd like to do something better", Jobs said to the council people. "I do think we have a shot at building the best office building in the world".

CNET joked: "Campus delights will include a fitness center, an auditorium that seats 1,000 people, underground parking... a big greenhouse for growing triffids... and on-site power facilities".

The part-spaceship, part-donut design, is designed by London-based Foster and Partners, and will cover 2.8 million square feet and stand at four stories tall.

One of the key features to the new campus is the landscaping. Jobs was key to point out that the current landscaping has only so many trees and greenery. Apple's new campus will vastly increase the greenery -- even amid the giant donut-shaped building.

The cost of the building, along with council tax and parking spaces -- including specially engineered glass to bend around corners -- will cost billions to build.

But it is not as if Apple can't afford it -- with over $70 billion in its reserves.

Nicknamed the "mothership", the parking lot will be below the building. While on top of the giant-donut office will be swathed in solar panels; one of the building's power sources.

You can see here, from the image, that the greenery and the lanscaping will increase dramatically once the building has completed. From trees to bushes, the entire area will be covered in fields and lush green spaces.

"There's not a straight piece of glass in this building". The shape of the office will be entirely circular, and the glass will have to be specially manufactured to accommodate this.

The building will also have 300,000 square feet of research facilities, and the auditorium where press and analysts come for announcements will be "totally underground". This could be partly due to security, but it does sound ominous -- keeping press literally in the dark, as Apple has done many times before.

But the space alone will ensure that major product and service announcements -- even major events like WWDC -- will be hosted on site and not at other event areas as seen before. Apple's current campus is small compared to these plans -- and the mass expansion to the larger office will allow for many hundreds more employees to be hired.