How time flies! This month marks two years since ground broke on Apple’s futuristic new “spaceship” campus, and — despite the odd hitch along the way — things are looking impressively together.
To show just how together the pieces all are, drone videographer Duncan Sinfield recently flew his DJI Inspire 1 drone over the building site to produce a stunning video of Apple’s forthcoming dream campus.
Check it out below. You won’t regret it.
By now, everyone is aware of the stats for Apple’s new campus — from the fact that it will house 13,000 Apple employees (the equivalent of 35 fully-filled Boeing 747s), to its impressive environmental credentials, to its $75 million gym for employees, and 1,000-seat underground theater. For the first time, however, we’re really starting to get a sense of what all of this will look like.
Recently we heard how the building has been designed, despite its giant size, to create serendipitous interactions between Apple employees.
The word that best sums it all up? “Wow!”
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
One response to “Two years on, Apple’s spaceship campus is taking off”
Hey, good for them. Not so good for the rest of us who live and work in Silicon Valley. It’s a lot more than 13K new employees when you consider all the other non-spaceship office space Apple has snapped up, and even more when you consider all the office space Google has acquired. They’re both fighting it out to be King of the Valley – which will we be named, Apple Valley, or Googleville?
Yep, for the rest of us it means unbelievable traffic jams (they are doing nothing to improve road capacity), fighting for parking at malls, long lines at the grocery, weeks for an appointment with your doctor, and massive waiting lists for day care for your kids. Nobody’s hiring more police/fire/EMT either. When that next earthquake hits us…
Also, good luck buying a house, where a tiny fixer-upper will cost you $1-1.5M, and you’ll have to put a few hundred thousand into renovations to make it more livable.
See, city councils jump for Apple, but they don’t care much about infrastructure. So they’ve inconvenienced the lives of millions of existing residents, thanks to their “serendipitous interactions”. Wow is right.