“Following an update late last month from the City of Cupertino on progress being made at Apple’s currently under construction Campus 2 project, now the City has shared an official updated aerial photo of the site from Apple,” Jordan Kahn reports for 9to5Mac.
“Today’s shot shows that progress is continuing on the main structure’s foundation and surrounding campus,” Kahn reports, “but also gives us a wider field of view for a nice perspective of how the site fits into the surrounding city.”
Read more in the full article here.
“Three new aerial photos of Apple’s Campus 2 construction site show rapid progress being made on the main circular building’s foundation, including rebar work for below grade retaining walls and the addition of interior ‘tunnels,'” Mikey Campbell reports for AppleInsider. “The images, shared on Twitter by KCBS traffic reporter Ron Cervi, come nearly three weeks after the last batch of photos showed initial progress on the ‘spaceship’s’ substructure.”
“It appears preparations are being made to pour the concrete foundation that will serve as a base for the three-story building,” Campbell reports. “Of note is rebar work being done to retaining walls ringing the build’s perimeter, which will likely be paired with a comprehensive drainage system to avoid water ingress and lower level flooding.”
Full article with Cervi’s photos here.
love it, The Geek’s Mecca.
The Apple colosseum.
Awaiting the Hajj
That is one big damn dirt pile. It would be nice if they have an open house, because once they move in we will never get in.
Should send that idea to Cook’s email.
I love how on the linked site someone is suggesting that they NOT take pictures like this.
Imagery like this is the wave of the future, whether we like it or not.
DigitalGlobe just got authorization to sell commercially images from their satellites with resolution as good as 0.25 meter. Non U.S. satellite companies that sell imagery commercially (e.g., SpotImage) are moving into the same realm of resolution. PlanetLabs and others are claiming they will provide short duration (90 seconds or so) of motion imagery (not really video) as good at 0.5 meter resolution.
*Eventually* these commercial systems will get down to the 0.10 meter resolution where things will get really interesting. That won’t happen for several years, but it *will* happen.
Could Apple keep images from such systems off the ‘Net? No. Even if Apple spent $100 million a year buying up all the rights to such imagery from all the suppliers worldwide (often in the industry referred to as “checkbook shutter control”) there would be leaks. Images would get out. It will happen.
It’s interesting, being able to compare the size of the spaceship ring to the surrounding neighborhood, that it doesn’t look as enormous as the lovely model renderings lead you to imagine. IOW: It won’t take a person all day to walk around to the other side of the ring; Only half a day. 😉
The structure being one mile round, a half-circumferential stroll at 3 mph should occupy ten minutes, a diametric stroll less than seven minutes
😉 ‘The walk’ll do ye good thar lasses and laddies!’
Walking counter-clockwise seven times round the structure (like pilgrims do in Mecca) would occupy 2 hours 20 minutes
Dear oh dear! Very bad form. Three successive counter-clockwise circular stoles is enough to Curse The Entire Building! 😯
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widdershins
I sense that you are being solicitously avuncular with a wayward niece who in her youthful energy upsets the picnic table, to the general amusement of the responsible adults present, whose own imaginations have been immunised to impossible flights of adolescent fantasy, having already made their name and their money, and so are done with art.
First I have to give my spell checker a wallop. How did ‘strolls’ become ‘stoles’. Punish the scapegoat!
I do find those ‘immunised to impossible flights of adolescent fantasy’ to be amusing in a sad way and occasionally enjoy playing that role as satire. I’ve enjoyed keeping a good sense of obnoxiousness in myself and encourage it in others, while of course keeping within my sense of responsibility.
I’ll be enacting the role of uncle later today, but with my nephew.
Ah, THERE’S that word I’ve been looking for:
Circumambulation 😉
Still think a building in the shape of the Apple Logo would have been better. Roof lights up at night. A cool sight from the moon.
Oh Yea, would love to see that.
I don’t care if it’s Apple, it’s just another corporate monument to hubris.
Yeah they should all work in tents, or igloos.
Igloos in Cupertino? 😉
So if you were building a new home you’d use cardboard boxes and old skids?
I still say…Steve is going to beam down into the middle of it upon completion. 🙂
I think he will reappear in a special meeting room. The Hari Seldon room.
Looks like a huge male symbol O->
Um, uh, yeah! It does! Hmm. I hope that image fades with further development. There’s far more to Apple than mere
O->
Such as
O-+
i live right by the spaceship and traffic is absolutely horrible on wolfe and prunridge. but everyone loves Apple so we’ll just patiently deal with it
I heard some kid found the third journal that Steve was looking for. Can’t wait for them to complete the project.