Latest 4K drone footage of Apple's 'spaceship' Campus 2 shows interior auditorium work, significant.
The latest drone footage of Apple's new headquarters under construction taken on Christmas day shows much of the heavy equipment gone, with the entire site's landscaping being developed on a larger scale than previously seen.
Across the campus, the solar installation campus-wide estimated to be around 65 percent complete. Additionally, a small solar array has popped up on ground level near the Tantau Avenue facility.
The circular auditorium has been partially un-clad, with a lot of scaffolding inside. Workers appear to be focusing on the interior build-out of the structure.
Besides just the solar installation, much work has taken place on the Tantau Avenue facilities. The majority of the work on research and development building is inside now, with the exteriors very near completion.
Many kinds of California-native trees have been planted around the facility. Weaving through the trees, walkways have been poured all over campus.
Notably, the mountain of thousands of tons of dirt for landscaping and to cover up the underground parking garage is completely gone.
In 2011, Steve Jobs announced the project to the world, saying over 12,000 employees would work in the 2.8-million-square-foot "Spaceship" structure. Edible landscaping, walking paths, and other "green" improvements are in the process of construction, to minimize the impact the facility makes on the environment.
Apple's related Phase 2 adjacent project adds additional workspace, and includes a renewable energy-powered small data center.
Apple's micro-grid is reportedly capable of handling about 75 percent of Campus 2 power requirements during work hours, supplemented by Bloom Energy-provided fuel cells. Bloom Energy provided similar cells, currently in use at Apple's North Carolina data center.
Across the campus, the solar installation campus-wide estimated to be around 65 percent complete. Additionally, a small solar array has popped up on ground level near the Tantau Avenue facility.
The circular auditorium has been partially un-clad, with a lot of scaffolding inside. Workers appear to be focusing on the interior build-out of the structure.
Besides just the solar installation, much work has taken place on the Tantau Avenue facilities. The majority of the work on research and development building is inside now, with the exteriors very near completion.
Many kinds of California-native trees have been planted around the facility. Weaving through the trees, walkways have been poured all over campus.
Notably, the mountain of thousands of tons of dirt for landscaping and to cover up the underground parking garage is completely gone.
In 2011, Steve Jobs announced the project to the world, saying over 12,000 employees would work in the 2.8-million-square-foot "Spaceship" structure. Edible landscaping, walking paths, and other "green" improvements are in the process of construction, to minimize the impact the facility makes on the environment.
Apple's related Phase 2 adjacent project adds additional workspace, and includes a renewable energy-powered small data center.
Apple's micro-grid is reportedly capable of handling about 75 percent of Campus 2 power requirements during work hours, supplemented by Bloom Energy-provided fuel cells. Bloom Energy provided similar cells, currently in use at Apple's North Carolina data center.
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I would love to hear about the people intimately involved in making this campus a reality. And I can't wait to see the inside and seeing people work in their office spaces.
I know Apple is getting pounded on for this and that (especially this latest Macbook Pro/Consumer Reports thing), but honestly hardly anyone takes into account that the whole damn company is moving into a new campus. That is no excuse, I agree, but still at the end of the day these things just don't happen automatically and without some disruption.
Anyway, the campus is amazing and these videos are pretty awesome too!
And then this:
No way that campus is ready for March or April. June at the earliest. And while I don't know local laws/regulations, I would assume all the buildings need to be inspected and have a Certificate of Occupancy before anyone is permitted to work there (unless local laws permit the engineers to sign off). The associated inspections alone could take a month. That is a huge place to inspect and there's so much new technology in its construction, I don't know how the local inspectors will even be able to assess it. These are people who usually just check to make sure the electrical panels are wired to code and the elevators aren't going to crash.
I think those who think Apple is going to do tours of the campus for the public are a bit naive. I can't see that happening as Apple is so paranoid about security. But a coffee-table book and/or a documentary about the construction...I'd be surprised if someone wasn't documenting the whole thing for just that reason.
I think I'd hate it if someone I needed to deal with on a daily basis was 180 degrees away from me. On the other hand, it's an excuse to spend a lot of the day outside. - I wonder how long it would take to walk cross the inner courtyard of the spaceship and if raining, how long it would take to walk 180 degrees inside. I also wonder how much use all those walking paths will get. And it will be interesting to see if getting in and out each day is smooth or leads to incredible traffic jams.
I noticed on YouTube that there's several other drone captures of the campus taken presumably on the same day, although they're inferior to this one. I wonder if anyone has lost a drone on the campus while shooting. It's too bad all these drone videos seem to be taken on early Sunday mornings (judging from the lack of traffic and no campus activity). I'd love to see one that demonstrates the buzz of construction activity and another one later after the campus is fully occupied.
I like that in his comments he wrote "Apple die hards only".
Nice! I like the music and the arial view with the mountains in the background.
We used to live in Saratoga, about 5.5 miles from the Spaceshipe site... Traffic was always a bear to/from that area -- suspect it will be even worse when the new site is fully populated.
However this would have started (I forget the hypothesis), it's kind of the obverse of the runaway greenhouse effect, i.e., the more the earth was covered in ice, the greater its reflectivity, and the greater its reflectivity, the more light energy (and therefore heat) reflected away, so the colder and icier it got.
As I recall the path out is hypothesized to be a period of intense volcanic activity which eventually led back to a heat-trapping atmosphere which began the process of melting the ice.....
Maybe they're going to paint the theatre roof in alternate sections of white and black to get a solar effect like this:
Whee... Spin me!
Apple Posts New Completion Timetable!!
"Almost certainly this decade!", says an ecstatic Tim Cook,
"But, absolutely, definitely this century!...(and this time, I mean it!)"
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