If we are to continue to look for Heliopoli outside of the city itself, we can’t ignore the Apple company’s plans for its new campus in Cupertino, California.

On June 7, Apple CEO Steve Jobs presented to the Cupertino City Council his proposal for a new Apple campus. The building will cover 2.8 million square feet over four stories. Amenities will include a cafe, a corporate fitness center and an auditorium seating 1,000 people. Parking will be provided under the main building and one multi-story parking structure. The office will accommodate 13,000 employees. The site will have its own power plant that will generate a portion of the campus’ energy needs to minimize reliance on electricity provided by the grid.

The project objectives include creating “a distinctive and inspiring 21st-century workplace” and providing “an expanse of open and green space for Apple employees’ enjoyment.” It seeks to promote “shared creativity and collaboration” in “a single distinctive office.”

The circularity, the glass, the greenspace, the “shared creativity,” the underground parking even (can we remember Le Corbusier’s City of Tomorrow?), cannot be unacknowledged or unadmired. Besides, the chief archivist is a hopeless sucker for architectural concept designs. Can dreams really come true?

The proposal documents, available on the City of Cupertino’s website at Cupertino.org, include an introduction, site plan and landscaping, floor plans, and renderings, from which the images here are taken.