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.
9/11 taught architects and engineers the problems with the solution they found for that with the World Trade Center design, which also solved some of the core service problems.
I wonder how long that bridge is gonna last. The bureaucrats they put in charge selected a CRANE building company to design and build the bridge. They'd never built a bridge before. . . And they fired or transfer any of the state employees who blue whistles on the shoddy workmanship or poor welding jobs coming out of China's steel fabricators!
I see the sarcasm tag, but Apple went with American Steel makers and contractors.
Uh, no, wrong. Apple has facilities in Elk Grove, California making iMacs and A factory in Austin, Texas, making Mac Pros. Apple has also built huge server farms in South Carolina, Oregon, Nevada, and I've heard they are planning new facilities in San Jose. Apple has all their Gorilla Glass manufactured in Corning's factory in the USA.
The traffic around there will be bad depending on the number of people in that building.
My brother-in-law sold a mid-1930s Lagonda a few years back, looked similar to that Bearcat. They don't make them elegant now like they did back then. He lives in wine country, and toured the back roads there with it.
[While in jail, the Ghostbusters are studying the blueprints of Dana’s apartment building and uncover some startling facts]
Egon Spengler: The structure of this roof cap is exactly like the kind of telemetry tracker that NASA uses to identify dead pulsars in deep space.
Ray Stantz: Cold riveted girders with cores of pure selenium.
Peter Venkman: [to jailbirds suddenly looking over the blueprints] Everybody getting this so far? So what? I guess they just don’t make them like they used to, huh?
Stantz: [slaps Venkman up the head] No! Nobody ever made them like this! I mean, the architect was either a certified genius or an authentic wacko!
Venkman: Ray, for a moment, pretend that I don’t know anything about metallurgy, engineering, or physics, and just tell me what the hell is going on.
Stantz: You never studied. The whole building is a huge super-conductive antenna that was designed and built expressly for the purpose of pulling in and concentrating spiritual turbulence. Your girlfriend lives in the corner penthouse of Spook Central.
Venkman: She’s not my girlfriend. I find her interesting because she’s a client and because she sleeps above her covers. Four feet above her covers! She barks, she drools, she claws...
Spengler: It’s not the girl, Peter, it’s the building. Something terrible is about to enter our world, and this building is obviously the door. The architect’s name was Ivo Shandor. I found it in Tobin’s Spirit Guide. He was also a doctor. Performed a lot of unnecessary surgery. And then in 1920, he started a secret society.
Venkman: Let me guess: Gozer worshippers?
Spengler: Right.
Venkman: [to Stantz] “No studying”!
Spengler: After the First World War, Shandor decided that society was too sick to survive. [notices more jailbirds listening in] And he wasn’t alone; he had close to a thousand followers when he died. They conducted rituals up on the roof, bizarre rituals intended to bring about the end of the world, and now it looks like it may actually happen!
Venkman: [singing] So be good, for goodness sake! Whoa! Somebody’s coming! Somebody’s coming!
Ray Stantz: We have to get out of here. We’ve gotta get a judge or something.
Winston Zeddemore: Hey, wait a minute! Hold it! Now are we actually gonna go before a federal judge, and tell him that some moldy Babylonian god is gonna drop in on Central Park West and start tearing up the city?!
Spengler: Sumerian, not Babylonian.
Venkman: Yeah. Big difference.
Zeddemore: No offense, guys, but I gotta get my own lawyer.
Please. I only steal from the best myself!
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