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APPLE’S SPACESHIP HEADQUARTERS is coming along nicely from the looks of it.
A drone was recently flown over the company’s new Cupertino, California, headquarters, which is still currently under construction. From the aerial footage you see just how grand the structure will really be.
The building, a whopping 2.8 million square feet, will house more than 12,000 employees.
It will also feature an additional 300,000 square feet for its research and development facilities and a 120,000-square-foot auditorium, which isn’t attached to the main building, that seats 1,000 people.
Steve Jobs compared the futuristic-looking building, called Apple Campus 2, to a spaceship when he presented the plans for it during a Cupertino City Council meeting in June 2011. The main building is shaped like a ring and features a spacious garden in the center.
It’s also a “net-zero energy” building — meaning that the amount of energy used annually is about equal to the amount of renewable energy created on the site — and has 700,000 square feet of solar panels.
You can see the building taking shape from the video, filmed by drone pilot Duncan Sinfield. Sinfield published a similar video August 1. In the new footage, he shows the construction progress by showing before-and-after shots.
The architectural firm Foster + Partners is behind the design of the building, expected to be complete by the end of 2017.
Check out the new video below:
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Sure what else would they spend their money on.
They could put a few Bob they won’t need or even notice to the refugee crisis we’re currently facing
Maybe pay their full taxes?
Maybe they are supernova.
Looks like a commune of sorts.
Doubt it.. The world is just full of greed
the refugee crisis we’re facing? Do you live in Greece or italy?
Space exploration would be worthwhile
You’d need a monorail to get around that thing!
“I hear those things are awfully loud… It glides as softly as a cloud. Is there a chance the track could bend? Not on your life, my Hindu friend.”
Thats more a Shelbyville idea.
Great company
#Applezombie
Irazombie
Watch you’re mouth sunshine or I’ll kneecap ya
Skynet
Cyberdyne Systems
Could be the Hadron collider. Is there a Jobs Particle?
Isn’t that another name for the God particle
Any chance of a start boss??
Looks like an auld world domination centre
Now they just need to build a fake volcano around it.
Que the i-worship.
Cue the begrudgery
There it is.
What? You want to see the Blackberry I am using.?
You presumed I made that post begrudgingly. Proving my point. I’m not envious of i-phone owners, but you thinking I am proves you too have bought into the brand, even though you yourself don’t own one.
Hipster.
@Muiris. Sorry, but how did you upload your comment? How did you read this article? How do you get to work every morning – Nissan, Toyota, Hyundai. Perhaps public transport (Bombardier, Volvo, Mercedes)? How did you even boil your water for your cup of tea this morning? I take it back – I’m not sorry, you’re a top drawer moron.
I uploaded my comment via this smartphone. I go to work in a car and like most people I boil my water in a kettle. The brand of those items isn’t important, what’s important is that they work, are reliable and last. I know you have a lot invested in your i-phone, they’re not cheap. I’d probably go on the defensive if I paid a close to a grand for something that was kinda crap. But calling me a moron because I’m not a part of your Apple love in is ridiculous. I don’t like the product, it’s as simple as that.
Considering that the raw materials for an iPhone costs less than $10 they have the money for it.
Research and Development is the main cost usually.
its costing an estimated $5 billion. to put that in perspective, the estimated cost on the new world trade centre was $3 billion. apple are just milking it!
monorail ?
Is there a chance the track could bend?
Looks like they forgot to put in a carpark or road leading up to it. Awkward.
Seriously with all there money all there great ideas with technology and design!, the best they come up with is a DONUT shape building ???
Unbelievable :/
Nutters.
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