Apple Campus 2 Underground Auditorium Shown Off in New Aerial Video

[MacRumors]

Apple's second "spaceship" campus is scheduled to be completed in late 2016, giving the company just 12 months to wrap up construction to stay on schedule. Apple's construction crews have been hard at work over the past few months, making a lot of headway on the main ring-shaped building, the underground auditorium, and the parking structures.

Drone pilot Duncan Sinfield today shared another monthly campus update video with MacRumors, giving a close-up look at how construction has progressed since November.

Four levels of the main ring-shaped building have been completed, bringing Steve Jobs' original vision of the campus to life. With the walls in place, the special curved glass windows that will encircle the building will likely be going up soon.

This month's video also gives a clear look at the underground auditorium Apple is building, where it will host events to show off new products. Also depicted is the Tantau development, a set of additional buildings that will serve as research and development facilities.

When it's finished, the second Apple campus will feature the 2.8 million square foot ring-shaped main building, several parking structures, a 100,000 square foot fitness center, a 120,000 square foot auditorium, and a dedicated visitor's center with an observation deck, cafe, and Apple Store.

Article Link: Apple Campus 2 Underground Auditorium Shown Off in New Aerial Video

 

[sjleworthy]

this thing really is huge. would a lovely indulgence for a company to afford

 

[btrach144]

Auditorium looks small.

 

[finnns2000]

The linked article to Steve's vision of the building, man that video... Too bad he won't get to see this thing completed. He looked so ill in that vid.

 

[bandalay]

Theatre looks small until you look see the tiny little pickup truck nearby for scale. It's pretty darn big.

Speaking of big - what's "Mt. Apple" all about? Sound obstruction for the parkade? Water reservoir? Great big pile of dirt from the excavation?

 

[JesperA]

Speaking of big - what's "Mt. Apple" all about? Sound obstruction for the parkade? Water reservoir? Great big pile of dirt from the excavation?

Just a pile from the ground excavation and flattening, they will ship it away when there is no more use for it, they leave it there because they will need to use some of it for refilling some areas around the premise and some for shaping their landscape.

 

[AppleWarMachine]

I love watching these Hi-Def Drones videos on a Friday afternoon...what an amazing construction project!

How much are the tours going to cost?

 

[JoshDoug]

...interesting choice of song...

 

[Peace]

If anybody is curious about how the pyramids were made just look at that mountain of dirt.

 

[breather]

Cant wait for Apple to show us around when its done

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Auditorium looks small.

Must be an optional illusion. Public facing info on the auditorium suggest it's 120,000 square feet and will seat 1,000 people. At a cost of $161M, incidentally.

 

[arcite]

...interesting choice of song...

Welcome to the church of neoliberalism! To the mothership! Buy buy buy!

 

[Swift]

"Waiting for curved glass." This place will be an architectural wonder. But they'd better pay attention and get that glass right, or it's all back to the drawing board and start all over. For his most productive programming years, you want to keep them coding 24/7. So you give them a beautiful place to work in with a great team. Most "work of art" buildings aren't well-worked out for interaction and inspiration, they just look good from across the street. It'll be interesting to see people's reaction to it as a work environment.

 

[BornAgainMac]

Can they fly the drone in the building? I want to see what is going in there too.

 

[NachoGrande]

I found my mute button on my mac.. so that's good news.

 

[Glideslope]

If anybody is curious about how the pyramids were made just look at that mountain of dirt.

Agreed. I say it will be Topped, and remain on campus as is. A "Pyramid."

 

[doelcm82]

My next house is going to have an auditorium like that.

About 1/1000th the size, and more rectangular, but otherwise, exactly the same.

 

[xjryan]

Now I'm curious, do you think this guy has permission to fly his drone over the site or do you think Apple contracts him to do this? I am a fellow drone pilot and I would love to be able to film something like that with my drone but I can't stop thinking about how much trouble I would get in if I tried ya know? I figured there would be an army of security guards with assault rifles trying to chase him down haha

 

[Costino1]

This place is huge.

The layout makes it seem hard to get around though. I know they're stressing that you can walk outside thru the open inner circle courtyard to get across the building, but still. The Pentagon does it but this place seems to dwarf the Pentagon in size (too lazy to look up sq/ft...)

 

[LoadStar]

What is the giant bullseye on the ground between "Mt. Apple" and the auditiorium?

 

[erthquake]

This place is huge.

The layout makes it seem hard to get around though. I know they're stressing that you can walk outside thru the open inner circle courtyard to get across the building, but still. The Pentagon does it but this place seems to dwarf the Pentagon in size (too lazy to look up sq/ft...)

I just measured them in Google Earth. The inner circle of the mothership is about 1,170 feet across (outer circle is about 1,510 feet). Across its widest dimension, the Pentagon is about 1,430 feet, the courtyard about 550 feet. I had no idea the mothership was that big. Wow!

 

[576316]

The strangest thing about all this is to wonder about all the future products that might get unveiled in that auditorium. Things we can't even imagine right now.

 

[DanielSw]

this thing really is huge. would a lovely indulgence for a company to afford

It's not an indulgence. It's form following function, that of an enhancement of the company's ability to work internally as a cohesive team, the circle shape encouraging and facilitating such. And they can bloody well afford such, having worked long and hard to put out and sell the best products on earth for decades now. It's called Progress!

 

[Dahveed 1954]

I'm not sure what you guys think connects a pile of dirt with pyramids made from solid stone blocks. Now if you were instead talking about the various mound building cultures of North America, including the Mississippian Culture, you might have something.

 

[DanielSw]

It's great to see 4K footage of the site.

But please can the cheesy titles—the gaudy colored ones and the horsey see-through ones. All we need is easy legibility.

Also that "whip pan" after 1:00 is really stupid. Can't follow it comfortably. I know it's probably difficult to do a truck on an arc and a follow pan at the same time, but keep trying to perfect it MORE SLOWLY.

We also don't need to examine the pile of dirt all that carefully.