Apple Campus 2 Underground Auditorium Shown Off in New Aerial Video

[The Barron]

Request to there drone pilot: On the next flight, s-l-o-w down the spinning around. It's far easier & certainly more interesting to be able to take in all the detail here that way.

Hey! This is Apple Inc. Mega World Headquarters, not a quickie fly over of LA or SF. Thanks!

 

[The Barron]

Request to there drone pilot: On the next flight, s-l-o-w down the spinning around. It's far easier & certainly more interesting to be able to take in all the detail here that way.

Hey! This is Apple Inc. Mega World Headquarters, not a quickie fly over of LA or SF. Thanks!

Agree, JPIS

The overall flight is amazing, but the constant, high speed turning makes it very difficult to enjoy the full campus.

 

[DanielSw]

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'd say that the layout of the departments would at least roughly follow the production process, in which adjacent departments would naturally be the most likely to need and want to intermingle.

Even though circumferential logistics would seem to have to cover large distances, those may prove to be, never the less, more direct and shorter than having to, say, travel between separate buildings currently.

 

[jayducharme]

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

Speaking of which, what is "Apple Mountain"? It looks like it was built in layers. Is it just all the dirt removed from the construction site? I assume it's going to be repurposed elsewhere on the site. Or will it just be trucked away?

 

[manu chao]

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.

To nitpick, there should be a comma between 'second' and "spaceship". Otherwise it would read as if this were the second spaceship-like campus Apple is building.

 

[Peace]

To nitpick, there should be a comma between 'second' and "spaceship". Otherwise it would read as if this were the second spaceship-like campus Apple is building.

I agree. The wording makes it sound like this is the second one they are building when in fact it is the first.

 

[AbSoluTc]

Speaking of which, what is "Apple Mountain"? It looks like it was built in layers. Is it just all the dirt removed from the construction site? I assume it's going to be repurposed elsewhere on the site. Or will it just be trucked away?

Correct. Lots of sites do this when constructing. This one is bigger obviously. The layers prevent the upper most layers from sliding down. Especially if they drive on top of it. Also helps with erosion. If the sides were smooth, the whole thing would turn into a mud pit.

When construction is over, they will use some on site where needed and sell/haul off the rest.

 

[groovyd]

Is the auditorium underground to limit people using cellphones unless via apples network or something? maybe for sound proofing?

 

[segfaultdotorg]

"Apple's second 'spaceship' campus..."

Did they ever finish their first 'spaceship' campus?

 

[NickD73]

Let's not focus on what the building will service when it is finished for Apple, but what it will be used for in 3-4 years when Apple crumbles. That auditorium could be used as a future 3D Harkins Theater, and the rest of the building can be a shopping mall.

 

[C DM]

Let's not focus on what the building will service when it is finished for Apple, but what it will be used for in 3-4 years when Apple crumbles. That auditorium could be used as a future 3D Harkins Theater, and the rest of the building can be a shopping mall.

Same "worries" that people have had for over a decade every year--certainly something that has been coming to fruition each of those years.

 

[bbbb4b]

Auditorium looks small.

Compared to what?
It's a private auditorium. Not a public rock concert stadium.

 

[manu chao]

Is the auditorium underground to limit people using cellphones unless via apples network or something? maybe for sound proofing?

An auditorium, in particular one that uses a screen or projection of any kind, generally doesn't need windows. It's something you can stuff underground and have grass and other greenery above instead of having a window-less building.

 

[MacLC]

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.

True. It reminds me of the works of many composers such as Borodin or Mozart who died with unfinished music.
So many business parks and tech parks are built to maximize "usable space" that they forget what environment inspires new ideas. Driving to a rectangular building to look out a rectangular window at other rectangular buildings is only a slight skew away from being square.

Besides, the building is "One Infinite Loop"

 

[bbbb4b]

Let's not focus on what the building will service when it is finished for Apple, but what it will be used for in 3-4 years when Apple crumbles. That auditorium could be used as a future 3D Harkins Theater, and the rest of the building can be a shopping mall.

You're not too up to date on what's been happening to shopping malls over the last several years in this country, are you?

On the other hand; I can't wait to see all those beautiful glass Apple Stores become Apple Car showrooms. Perfect display environment.

 

[apolloa]

Very hard to get any sense of scale from this video. Nice to see the different things other than the ring though. Shame we will never get to see the inside seeing as this is Apple, one of the most secretive companies there is.

 

[firewood]

Let's not focus on what the building will service when it is finished for Apple, but what it will be used for in 3-4 years when Apple crumbles.

Ya think they can blow $200B in cash that fast? (With more on the way!) On what? Starting when? All the possible car stuff is still only a fraction of their relatively small (for their industry) R&D budget. Or do you think Cook will overspend by 25X on Yahoo's remains.

 

[inkswamp]

Great video!

When muted.

 

[The Barron]

Let's not focus on what the building will service when it is finished for Apple, but what it will be used for in 3-4 years when Apple crumbles. That auditorium could be used as a future 3D Harkins Theater, and the rest of the building can be a shopping mall.

Hate to break it to you, sitting down I hope & not shorting any Apple shares, right? BUT, Apple's not going to be crumbling. Better go back to the Dark Side & hang with the likes of Sammy & Softy.

 

[macsba]

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.

Yeah, wish the titles was a lot smaller. Was very distracting. For me, the purpose of these videos is to see the detail in the construction.

 

[pacalis]

Reminds me of the IBM buildings. Cool for their time but completely corporate and lacking any identity.

They should have had some balls and built this like a giant apple logo.

 

[macsba]

Hate to break it to you, sitting down I hope & not shorting any Apple shares, right? BUT, Apple's not going to be crumbling. Better go back to the Dark Side & hang with the likes of Sammy & Softy.

I would love to see the SEC ban short sales. Too many people are hurt by this practice.

 

[Danimals87]

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.

This dirt is from the main building excavation mostly. The stockpile will stay there permanently. It will be used for sound and visual obstruction from the freeway and two new parking structures. Later, we will contour grade the stockpile for landscaping. I am an engineer for the Earthwork Contractor on site.

 

[Comeagain?]

The Pentagon does it but this place seems to dwarf the Pentagon in size (too lazy to look up sq/ft...)

Well, kinda. But not really. The Pentagon is 6,500,000 sq/ft. (that we know about).

 

[Designx]

I think they are building it in the wrong place. I'd build this in China - it's the future and where I predict extraordinarily bright people will be inventing amazing things.