The scale of the project is difficult to grasp. This overlay of The Pentagon helps.
Posted on 02/04/2016 12:24:27 AM PST by Swordmaker
In the latest drone flyover video of Apple's so-called "spaceship" campus, the true scale of the ambitious project has never been clearer.
The footage, uploaded to YouTube this week by drone enthusiast Duncan Sinfield, shows that the gargantuan circular structure is moving steadily toward completion, with significant progress made in the last five months alone. The swish new headquarters will become the workplace of some 14,000 Apple employees when it opens its doors toward the end of this year or early next.
Besides the main building, the footage also gives us a look at what'll be the circular entrance to the now-covered underground auditorium. We can also see its similarly shaped shiny roof which isn't yet in place but sits close by.
Winfield doesn't specify what equipment he used for the video, though if it's the same kit he used for his last spaceship flyover then we're looking at a DJI Inspire 1 quadcopter with a Zenmuse X3 gimbal and camera.
As well as the main donut-like structure and underground auditorium, the campus grounds will also include a visitor center, and an R&D facility where Jony Ive and his team will likely shed blood, sweat and tears in an effort to come up with the next big hit for the company.
The new site, located on land once occupied by Hewlett-Packard, spreads across 176 acres. The main building includes a solar-panel roof and will feature office space across four floors. Fitness centers, dining facilities, and jogging paths weaving through its expansive grounds are also part of the plan.
Apple's new HQ was designed by British architect Norman Foster, who worked closely on the project with Steve Jobs up until the Apple co-founder's untimely death five years ago.
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If the end-times come, will it be able to fly?
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Quite cool.
I’d make a special trip to California to see this building if they offered tours.
Who needs it to fly, by then, Apple will have an iTransporter in the center which instantly teleports everyone to Alpha Centauri. Only problem is that it transports you to Alpha Centari, the star. It's hot there. . . and if you are going, better stock up on sun block with an SPF1,000,000, not to mention really good polarized sunglasses.
I think there'd be a lot of walking. If the corridors are anything like the Pentagon, which has 17 miles of corridors, you'd get pretty tired before you'd see everything. Not to worry about wearing out your hiking shoes, I have feeling you'd not get far before running into security pass carded doors.
That looks like a lot of walking. I think skyscrapers with elevators make better workplaces.
For years the site of the Apple space ship headquarters was a Hewlett-Packard site. They must have sold the site to Apple.
Mmmmmmm, nice.
My girlfriend's brand new (October) 2015 Corvette Stingray feels pretty much like that. . . and the dashboard on my new Lincoln MK Z I got last month also looks a lot like that but it shore don't have that much get up and GONE! But it is fun to drive, especially with all the bells and whistles. Lord knows I don't have the reflexes any more to drive something with that much horsepower. Still my Lincoln is quite powerful when I step on it. . . and so is the Corvette.
>>For a 500 dollar tax, he is going to save this guy 5000 dollars in insurance premiums. So where do the other 4500 come from? (Take a wild guess). <<
Not a problem with iGlasses! They go from totally transparent to complete blackout in 1 nanosecond when they detect Alpha Light!
Seems basically the EXACT “diameter” of the Pentagon.
What a coinkydink.
An architect will tell you that skyscrapers have a service problem the taller they get. The more floors, the more elevators they need on lower floors, the more dedicated service space required for the upper floors, and the more structural support for the upper floors required, which takes away from useful rental space in the lower floors. The service core gets to big and there is a point of diminishing returns. One way around it is to have dedicated sub-lobbies where "elevator transfers" take place. You then can have a few non-stop elevators to the sub-lobbies on an upper level which access the next set of floors, and depending on how tall the building is, there may or not be ground floor access to all the sub-lobbies. That can limit the number of elevator shafts required, and therefore the core size. However, that limits the staff entrance and exit times for workers coming into the building, and usually that means staggered work hours. Getting workers to and from a small footprint building such as a skyscraper has its own problems, and requires a completely different infrastructure, than a flat building like the Apple headquarters.
Given my druthers, I think a skyscraper is much more spectacular to look at. A skyline of such buildings is awe inspiring. Flat buildings, meh.
They did. HP shrank.
That was the HP Pruneridge site I believe. I forget which divisions were based there.
I’m into the cars as well. Took a few pics of a vintage Porsche Spyder at the Hunt Store on Monday. Some things defy description.
I would think that they have seqway bike thingy or golf carts
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