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Aerial Photo Shows Outline of Apple's Spaceship Campus Taking Shape

SmileyBlast! said:
I'm not so sure. I think it is going to be tough building to navigate in. You will have no real sense of north and south. I guess that's what all of those iBeacons were invented for.
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Perhaps they should label the offices by degrees! Northernmost office being 0, southernmost being office 180.

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dunnr said:
I think the shape is more like a planet, therefore Planet Apple is created:D.
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And they couldn't have taken a few more minutes to design it like an apple? With the entrance in the bite?
 
I just overlaid the bird eye view of the plans for it so you can see where it will sit.

:)

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i would actually be amazed if these aerial shots were taken on an iPhone....:)

Didn't we go through this before ? Or is this a different "space ship" campus ?

Apple's building these as fast as i can keep up :confused:

Neat race track though...
 
1Zach1 said:
The Umbrella Corporation is coming along nicely.
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I would say Google is closer to becoming the Umberlla Corp. Who knows what they are working on. (Still don't know what those Giant data barges they released from each coast are all about).
 
Tech198 said:
i would actually be amazed if these aerial shots were taken on an iPhone....:)

Didn't we go through this before ? Or is this a different "space ship" campus ?

Apple's building these as fast as i can keep up :confused:

Neat race track though...
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This would be the first. They've never built one before. They just got permission to do so in November.
 
Progress is moving quickly on this one, even before final approval. Clark Pacific has been constructing concrete structural panels for at least 7 months now.
 
britboyj said:
Those apartments are going to FLY up in price.
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Not just the apartments. The ten block radius of residential, single family houses that were mostly built in the late-50's are expected to double in price. Most of these houses are on quarter acre lots, single / double garage with a single floor and two to three bedrooms.

Strangely, these houses were built in Steve's childhood in a bizarre neo-Swiss Chalet style with integrated bird feeders in the apex of the garage. I think it followed the trend of original Disneyland styling that was all the rage in California at the time.

I keep on wondering if there is any work going on to remove the Section Eight housing in the neighborhood while they are at it.

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macs4nw said:
Looking at the size of those parked cars gives you an idea of the mammoth size of that 'ring'….. lol about that privacy fence, so Apple-like.
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Dude, that privacy fence is just for construction. Of all the current Apple campuses, there are no fields fenced off from the street. My take is that Apple will have the grounds open to the public and even a cooperative working the orchards. The buildings will have restricted access but I do not see the whole campus fenced off from the street.
 
CFreymarc said:
I keep on wondering if there is any work going on to remove the Section Eight housing in the neighborhood while they are at it.
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They're allocating $2.5 million to improving affordable housing in the city, not nearly enough, but they're dumping $66 million into the public infrastructure as well...
 

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dejo said:
Care to elaborate? What about being that close is going to suck?
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Bad: Huge amount of increased traffic. Great mass transit and shuttles or not, there's still going to be a lot more traffic.
Large influx of people the locals may or may not jive with.

Double-edged sword: massive increase in property value. Great if you want to move and leave town, really bad if you want to move and stay in town.

Just good: More money flowing into the local everything, which *should* translate to better schools, better mostly everything.
Jobs. Lots of jobs. (See what I did there?)
 
Konrad9 said:
Bad: Huge amount of increased traffic. Great mass transit and shuttles or not, there's still going to be a lot more traffic.
Large influx of people the locals may or may not jive with.
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How many employees did HP have on this site?

I've read that Apple plans to have 13,000 employees in the new building. How many of those will be brand new people to the area? Or how many of them will be moved from the old Apple campus just 2 miles away?

One of the reasons Apple is building this giant building is because they are currently leasing other office space all over Silicon Valley, including Cupertino.

Now they'll be under one roof.

So... will there be that much more traffic in the area? Or will it just be a reshuffling of people already around?

I'm sure Apple will be hiring more people... but it might not affect the traffic too much.
 
How is a 2400 car parking lot enough for such a big building and expected number of employees. I am probably missing something.
 
OMG! :eek: There were tortoises living on that land they're bulldozing!
Bring in the BLM SWAT teams!
 
Once again thank a small airplane pilot and the freedom to fly over TOP SECRET FACILITIES at mortal peril to bring us the truth! :D

Support General Aviation!
(even though he works for a TV station, it is still GA)
 
Infinity Loop

The entire U.S. Pentagon building can fit INSIDE the central courtyard garden of the Mothership Apple HQ!

SO sad that Steve Jobs will never see this built...
 
It's not shaped like any spaceship ever built. Period.

It's not spaceship shaped. It's an infinite loop.

It's time to stop being distracted by that offhanded remark Steve Jobs made about how some people might see it as a spaceship, if for the only reason he never said it was shaped in that manner. I'm pretty sure even Phil Schiller spoke similarly, but not relating it directly to being shaped like a spaceship other than joking about other people's perspectives.

Infinite loop. Thinking differently about a circle. A cycle. Cycling over and over again, re-cycle-ing. Circling. Looping, for and while. Life.

Has there been any spaceship in REALITY built in a such a circular fashion? If it looks like any specific flying device, then it must be more like an aerobie, though that's probably a trademarked name for a flying ring. Yet, it's a building that like a building does not fly. Unlike most office buildings, this one is designed as only a few stories tall surrounded by a field of life and therefore respecting the view of the surroundings by not becoming a honeycombed mesa in the midst of desertificated human dwellings.

Infinite loop. It's much more fitting with Apple's reality than a gossipy and unrealistic term.
 
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