Construction on Apple Campus 2 Progressing Rapidly, Walls Continue Taking Shape

[MacRumors]

Construction at Apple's Spaceship campus is continuing at a rapid pace, according to new images posted to Twitter by KCBS news and traffic reporter Ron Cervi. Cervi has been taking aerial shots of the campus to track construction progress for the last several months.

In the most recent set of images, the perimeter walls that will house the foundation of the building appears to be growing closer to completion, indicating a significant amount of construction has taken place since June, when the wall first started going up. Cervi also mentions "underground tunnels" in one tweet, referring to deep furrows in the dirt.

The new #Apple #spaceship HQ is getting closer to launch! #applesnewhq http://t.co/MRudPxa8t3 pic.twitter.com/IduUDeXIOG - Ron (@Sky1Ron) July 17, 2014

Pruneridge Avenue, the road that runs through the campus, has remained closed since last month, and traffic in Cupertino around the campus continues to be somewhat congested. Apple has closed off several sidewalks in the area and a large green privacy fence keeps the entire area hidden from view at street level.

The completed Apple campus 2, located in close proximity to the company's existing Infinite Loop campus, will feature the famous 2.8 million square foot ring-shaped main building, an underground parking facility able to accommodate 2,400 cars, a 100,000 square foot fitness center, and a 120,000 square foot auditorium.

Said to be the "most energy efficient building of its kind," Apple's new campus will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy and populated with more than 7,000 trees.

Apple hopes to finish the first phase of construction on the campus in 2016.

Article Link: Construction on Apple Campus 2 Progressing Rapidly, Walls Continue Taking Shape

 

[CrazyForApple]

I would love to live in one of those houses right there next to it

 

[Gabichon]

Can't wait to see it finished!

 

[HiVolt]

Jeez, are we gonna see a post everytime the wall goes up by a couple feet? Roof? some grass being laid down?

Get a grip MR...

 

[TWSS37]

Can't wait for the analyst rumors on this project.

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[Yvan256]

It would have been nice if someone had set up a camera somewhere to take a photo every day at noon, to be able to build a time-lapse video once it's completed.

 

[Arran]

Pruneridge Avenue, the road that runs through the campus...

Gonna have to rename that to a different fruit.

And what will they call the building itself? Fruit loop?

 

[GroundLoop]

I would love to live in one of those houses right there next to it

I have no idea why....traffic would be terrible.

 

[iBlazed]

I have no idea why....traffic would be terrible.

Yeah but then you can build a tunnel directly from your basement to the restricted rooms at Apple. Like a drug tunnel. I'm sure you would never get caught or anything.

 

[SilianRail]

How long before reports of a delay because of a manufacturing problem?

 

[winston1236]

So a repost from a couple weeks ago?

 

[jonnysods]

Excellent article. Looking forward to one where they get the toilets installed.

Is this a photo of the campus, or just knock off mockup from China?

 

[tdiaz]

No, you all have not figured it out yet ..

They're really going to be building a super collider, the round campus building is just a masquerade.

 

[OriginalMacRat]

I would love to live in one of those houses right there next to it

Why? Right now you can't see anything due to the wall surrounding the property.

Also there are enough trees in place that you still won't see much when the wall comes down.

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It would have been nice if someone had set up a camera somewhere to take a photo every day at noon, to be able to build a time-lapse video once it's completed.

It would have to be on a really tall tower to see over the tree line.

 

[ibeam]

It would have been nice if someone had set up a camera somewhere to take a photo every day at noon, to be able to build a time-lapse video once it's completed.

With one of those quad-copter drones you could revisit the exact same GPS location in 3D space to take the shots from a bird's eye view.

 

[OriginalMacRat]

I have no idea why....traffic would be terrible.

How is traffic going to be any different from when it was an HP parking lot?

Also keep in mind that Apple employs a large fleet of buses and shuttles which lowers the use of individual cars.

 

[tonytiger13]

It would have been nice if someone had set up a camera somewhere to take a photo every day at noon, to be able to build a time-lapse video once it's completed.

Guaranteed Apple has already done this. It'll appear in one of their videos for WWDC or similar.

 

[PowerBook-G5]

I would like to see how they will be transporting the huge, curved glass windows.

Also, people seem to be going downvote-happy. Is the downvote going to stay around from now on‽

 

[CrazyForApple]

Why? Right now you can't see anything due to the wall surrounding the property.

Also there are enough trees in place that you still won't see much when the wall comes down.

I wouldn't care what it looks like now but since I'm a huge Apple fan. It would be awesome to live right next to it's giant campus.

 

[rhett7660]

It would have been nice if someone had set up a camera somewhere to take a photo every day at noon, to be able to build a time-lapse video once it's completed.

Beat me to it. I was thinking the same thing. I like those type of video's and given what this building is supposed to look like. I think it would be pretty cool also.

 

[dannys1]

I would love to live in one of those houses right there next to it

Why, do you have a fetish for the sound of construction or something?

 

[TroyBoy30]

its really going to be round? i thought it was a joke

 

[Ljohnson72]

Jeez, are we gonna see a post everytime the wall goes up by a couple feet? Roof? some grass being laid down?

Get a grip MR...

Jeez, are we going to have some high horse commenter such as yourself on every single post?

Get a grip HiVolt...

 

[PorscheSpyder]

Pretty keen to see this going up. I'm curious as to how they're going to transport those glass panels.

 

[rp2011]

The building should go up pretty quickly. A lot of the work was done off site as this will be in eesence a pre-fab building. A huge erector set with basically the same curved parts being stitched together.