YouTuber Duncan Sinfield has posted his latest high-res drone video of Apple’s massive new campus, Apple Park.
This time, the video was shot during a flight at sunset and the results are spectacular!
Apple Park is planned to house more than 12,000 employees in one central four-storied circular building of approximately 2,800,000 square feet.
Direct link to video here.
MacDailyNews Take: It’s still so not done, but it does look cool with the lights on, doesn’t it?
TGIF! Interns, do we even need to ask?
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I like it. Levy’s article earlier this week was needlessly snarky. This is a beautiful building that is functional, beautiful, and an object of desire. The many trees are lovely. Very nicely done.
Except it’s not even close to being done, yet.
Tim Cook’s Apple: Always late.
There is a long history (dating back to the 80s) of major tech companies building a fancy, new headquarters then the company taking a nose dive in the next few years. The most extreme case was probably Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), but there are many others. We all just hope Apple does not fit that pattern.
True, but the logic can’t be used in reverse, that is, just because a company builds a grand edifice to itself, that does not forshadow a subsequent demise.
There is no pattern. Nothing like hoping about a fantasy that doesn’t exist. And in your “we all just hope”, I think there are probably a TINY number of people… if any.
Apple Parcs. A year or two from now given the growth and future finishing touches the final edifice should be pretty darn nice. A bit Xanadu-eque but what else would you expect from Steve Jobs & Apple?
The iHaterz have already called Apple Park a typical Apple overpriced extravaganza. Supposedly, Apple should have built a nearly as functional headquarters for less than half the price. I always get a kick out of hearing things like that.
I suppose they’re basing it on the cost of the Burj Khalifa (still the world’s tallest building) which supposedly only cost $1.5B a few years back. However, this is America and not Asia. Construction crews in other countries work for steady pay and not necessarily high wages. I heard in those foreign countries they’ll work around the clock if they fall behind. That’s definitely not going to happen in America.
After seeing how long it took to complete the new World Trade Center in NYC (over a decade?), I expected Apple’s new headquarters to take at least a year or two longer than planned. Fortunately, that hasn’t happened so far.
Back in the day (35+ years ago) as an ironworker working high steel we did work nights if we were far behind schedule. It took lots and lots of lighting and lots of extra precautions as well as paying attention to things like noise ordinances, but we did it working round the clock. I have not been in that field since then, so I can’t speak to today’s crews, but I’m sure the guys would work it if the conditions were right.
The Empire State Building was built from March 1930 to completion in April 1931.
Yes, but there were probably a lot less OHSA regulations back then 😉
Ring World! Beautiful, much nicer looking than Steve’s yacht.
Did anyone spot a new Mac Pro in there somewhere?
Hey, remember the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark (the warehouse scene)? If you look closely at the Atrium, between 1:17 and 1:28, you can see a lone employee pushing something across the floor. Any guesses what it might be ?
Yeah, its a floor polisher
Commercial architecture is not expected to last more than about 40 yrs before it begins to degrade, so I wonder how long the architects expect this edifice to Apple to last given that it must have superior connecting devices and methods and it has, I am guessing, superior materials.
I read something about “100 years”.
I’m just glad they could suppers the urge to say “1000 years”…
Pretty awesome looking
And now for the inevitable questions:
1) What will be the echo noise dB inside the Mothership ring?
2) What will be the EM interference inside the Mothership ring?
They’ll be issues. Now that we’re kinda sorta maybe getting to the habitability stage, I thought I’d bring them up.
[I’m going to have to look up the diameter of the ring and compare it to EM wavelength, probably an entirely pointless exercise, but it might be fun.]
[165 feet. 50.292 meters.]
Please clarify “inside”: within the toroidal structure itself (offices and corridors), or within the central space spanned by its diameters?
I’m thinking about reflection and resonance within the inner diameter of the mothership ring, just for fun.