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APPLE PARK: March 2017 Update
Take a breathtaking tour via drone of the Apple Park. Apple’s mega headquarters that is set to open in April 2017.
Recorded using a DJI Phantom 3 Professional.
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Apple Campus 2, as the company is calling it, has had a level of corporate oversight that very few architectural projects receive, with the company requiring sign-off on just about every aspect of the design and construction.
Here are a few of the more intense details from the years-long build:
The original contractors left.
The buildings had to be perfect.
It looks great, but isn’t particularly functional.
It has the world’s largest piece of curved glass.
Apple’s documentation was extensive.
Apple was more demanding than most regulators.
The iPhone is everywhere.
There are doorways, but not thresholds.
It took 15 meetings to get the signage just right.
Door handles took over a year to figure out.
Constructing an Apple HQ is like handling fine art.
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Apple’s new Campus 2 headquarters is expected to start operations in early 2017.
The main building is a ring-shaped, four-storied structure that looks like a huge spaceship. The site covers 176 acres, or about the size of 100 soccer fields.
At over 1,500 feet, the main building is greater in diameter than the Empire State Building is tall, and wider than the Pentagon.
More than 3,000 sheets of curved glass cover the main building, which is a perfect circle.
The site will be be powered completely by renewable energy, including solar power and biofuels. Around 80 percent of the site is green space, complete with jogging and cycling trails.
Some 13,000 Apple employees will work at the new headquarters, which has seven different cafes. A thousand bicycles will be available for staff to get around the campus, which will be planted with 7,000 trees.
The campus will have a 1,000-seat auditorium, a 100,000-square-foot fitness center, and 300,000 square feet of research and development facilities.
Parking garages above and below ground have space for about 14,000 vehicles, while a visitor center offers views over the entire campus.
The total cost to build the Apple Campus 2 is estimated to be $5 billion. That figure is equal to around 2 percent of the company’s $215 billion in total cash reserves as of January 2016.
The Apple Campus 2 will be the world’s fifth most expensive building and quite possibly the world’s coolest office.
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The official presentation video from Apple about their new revolutionary $5 billion Apple Campus 2 in Cupertino, California.
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In the Header Video, Steve Jobs presents the plans of the new Apple Campus “The Mothership” to the Cupertino City Council, June 7, 2011.