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Apple & Cupertino share official updated aerial image of Campus 2 progress

Following a new drone flyover of Apple’s under construction Campus 2 over the weekend, Apple and the City of Cupertino today shared an official updated aerial shot of the site showing the latest progress on the project.

Apple appears to have made a lot of progress on the building’s foundation and earthwork for the surrounding campus since last checking in with official aerial imagery.

Construction on the new building, which is set to house 12,000 staff by its estimated 2016 completion date, is currently in the earthwork/building construction phase that kicked off in the second quarter of 2014 earlier this year. Apple is also planning to continue demolition and street utilities work until the end of the year, with building construction expected to wrap up by the end of calendar 2016:

Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke about the ‘Spaceship” Campus 2 HQ in a recent interview noting that he thinks it will “be the greenest building on the planet.”

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  1. I find it weird calling it green when most of the materials used to build this campus is imported from areas that have been destroyed for their natural resources…

    • Barry Kushner - 10 years ago

      Actually, your comment is more weird.

    • rettun1 - 10 years ago

      Source?

      It’s likely to run on 100% renewable and mostly CLEAN renewable, given the trend of their data centers and other buildings. There weren’t any dummies designing this, in fact it is one of the last few new things we can see that will have Steve Jobs’ direct influence. I think that’s pretty cool

      Hope to see it on MTV Cribs when construction is finished

      • “There weren’t any dummies designing this”

        source?

      • rettun1 - 10 years ago

        Norman Foster worked on many high profile buildings around the world, and is held in a high regard. foster worked directly with Steve jobs on designing this building, and it is well documented that steve did not work with dummies. macrumors had an article where foster explained some of his design philosophies about Campus 2 – he isn’t a dummy

    • timl2k11 - 10 years ago

      There is nothing green about it. Just a bunch of PR b.s.

  2. Craig Patchett - 10 years ago

    The drone shot looks much more current than this one.

  3. 89p13 - 10 years ago

    Yes – That drone video is really impressive. I would love to take a tour of this building when it’s completed (like that would ever be allowed).

  4. Integ (@integ) - 10 years ago

    Look closely. Does anyone else see the rough shape of the Enterprise D taking form here? Apple’s ultimate secret project. Make it so.

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Jordan writes about all things Apple as Senior Editor of 9to5Mac, & contributes to 9to5Google, 9to5Toys, & Electrek.co. He also co-authors 9to5Mac’s Logic Pros series.


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