Apple today shared an updated official aerial shot of its under construction Campus 2 project through the City of Cupertino’s website.
The new shot gives a different angle since the last time Apple checked in late last month and shows more of the earthwork and greenery of the surrounding campus.
Apple’s General Project Schedule posted on the City of Cupertino’s webpage tracking the project remains the same, however, with street utilities and demolition work expected to finish this year, earthwork continuing into early 2015, and building construction into late 2016:
Apple also uses the City of Cupertino website to provide construction and traffic updates related to the Campus 2 project for locals.
We posted the latest drone flyover video of Apple’s Campus 2 project earlier this month. When complete, Campus 2 is expected to hold 12,000 employees in 2.8M square feet over a 176 acre campus in Cupertino.
Work on Apple’s new HQ continues as the company recently opened a number of new, smaller satellite offices in Sweden, Seattle, and Cambridge, England.
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Lots of greenery. Lots of lawn.
This is in a city that is under a drought emergency.
People in the neighborhood are being paid to remove their lawns and other conservation measures.
Yet Apple in putting in lawn.
Too bad you can’t clearly see how bad traffic is now, or how much worse it will get.
Will there be that much lawn? I got the impression on the plans that it was mostly just natural, uncut, long wild grass, and trees.. Not sure how much the grass will require water.. Just curious as I didn’t get the impression this was a project with loads of manicured lawns, but may have missed something!
From a drive-by on Monday (visiting the States) there was lush grass and rolls of lawn yet to be installed.
Granted it rained in the area but the grass installed last summer has been very green while the drought continues.
The grass is between the perimeter fence and the sidewalk, definitely not in the public right of way.
The lawn visible on the street rivals a golf course.
The lawn visible from the street rivals a golf course.
At present there is no “lawn”. What “Herb” (who is a troll on this site) claims to have seen, but probably made up, wasn’t Apple’s lawn. The site has zero grass on it at all right now, every inch is having earlhwork done. Apple Campus 1, does have green grass though. So he has a point there. The landscaping around Apple campus 2 will be all indigenous local foliage, that has adapted on it’s own to survive in areas with low rainfall. Note in the concept art the architect firm put out…. No green grass: http://www.delood.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/article-photoslide/Apple-Campus-Concept-delood_03.jpg
Punk:
Drive by the site yourself.
about 15″ of very lush grass that runs hundreds of feet without interruption.
Yea, an artists rendering … great source of info. I guess you fall for all of them, don’t you?
I’ll bet the artists rendering doesn’t show any cars, like those stuck in traffic.
I guess everyone is getting to work via teleporters.
Moron.
share photos of the traffic
They closed down a four lane blvd., permanently. Pruneridge.
Do Google Street View. You can probably figure it out.
You’re a moron.
Please take a read of the environment two report on the project: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Apple-Campus2-DEIR/Apple_Campus_2_Project_EIR_Public_Review_5d-Bio.pdf
The concept art is essentially a sales brochure.
Drive by the site. Walk on the lush grass.
Then walk down the road, across Homestead, and ask the residents how they are coping with the drought, the traffic , the dust and the noise.
@herb02135go……Why are you soooo anti-Apple?? Are you Nuckin futts?? This will bring 12,000 jobs and you think that this is a bad thing?? Last time I checked, big construction projects cause: 1. Noise 2. Dust 3. Traffic issues etc. WTF does Apple have to do with the drought situation?? Why don’t you try to wait until it’s COMPLETE DONE before you form an opinion (what a novel thought) This way you won’t appear as ignorant and biased as you clearly are.
He’s just jealous he won’t see it since they are not in China. However, no worries, crapsung will copy is soon as well in South Korea. In fact, the ones paying you for writing here.
They had time to raise their voice in regard to those issues you mention (notice traffic, dust etc.) but the overall reaction was for Apple to build this campus, as it provides a base for some 12.000 people, most likely the prices on neighbouring houses will rise after completion of the project, and in general, people are willing to sacrifice some regular niceties for a limited time if it improves their lives in some way or another afterwards. It’s called progress. Either way, this projects landscaping is centered around restoring native plant species as it was before industrialisation, to as great extent as possible. You simply seem to be butthurt by Apple for some reason, or just simply wasting your time being a troll.
Not it’s not. It’s based on the approved environmental report for the project. It clearly states the expected noises, dust, plants to be used and not to be used etc.
Do Google Street View to show Tantau, near Homestead.
This will show you the grass. Some patches appear brown but not much.
The artist sales brochure linked is inside the fence.
That is the city “right of way” along the street, it’s not Apple’s land.
Pretty cool. Looks awesome so far.
I wonder if there are any Islamic workers on the site? Whether they would have to undergo more rigid security? Whether Islamics would be permitted to work there, or would that be seen as prejudice?
“or would that be seen as prejudice?”
of course it’s prejudice, it is discrimination.
What, when people were making attacks in Ireland, did people suddenly stop employing catholic people?
You seem to have missed the point. FYI Islamics are presently being blamed for worldwide terrorism.
Can’t wait to see when the trees will be in place. It’s hard to visualize now without the vegetation.