Here's a Detailed Aerial Photograph of Apple Campus 2

[MacsRuleOthersDrool]

What's the circular thing in the courtyard?

The cold fusion reactor, of course!

 

[Tech198]

For the first time ever huh.... OMG !!.. its a miracle.. no one working on a "holiday"

 

[satchmo]

I'm curious how efficient a circular building is if you have a meeting on the opposite side. A bit of a hike, no?

I suppose one could cut across the courtyard to get to the other side instead of walking around the long way.

 

[amegicfox]

all this without Steve, in the hands of Tim and his band of fouls

sad.

 

[hotelchevalier]

i like the comment by someone prevously that thought when finished a giant finger will come down and use the building to unlock the secrets of the world. this is one giant home button.

 

[JPSaltzman]

Perhaps this question as already been answered, but.... If you work in designated space "A" and you need to get to space "C" (which is 180°across from you), how do you get there? Must you walk the entire circumflex of the building (apparently, miles) to get to the office you need to speak to someone in person? Or can you "cut across the yard" and reach their office in a direct line?

In all the commentary and reviews I've read about this campus, I've never seen this obvious problem addressed.

 

[adamneer]

For years now I've been hearing this building described as "spaceship shaped."

Time to ask, in what way, exactly?

Seriously, "ring", "circle", and if they insist, even "UFO" would be more appropriate names for a building that in no way resembles a "spaceship".
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Perhaps this question as already been answered, but.... If you work in designated space "A" and you need to get to space "C" (which is 180°across from you), how do you get there? Must you walk the entire circumflex of the building (apparently, miles) to get to the office you need to speak to someone in person? Or can you "cut across the yard" and reach their office in a direct line?

In all the commentary and reviews I've read about this campus, I've never seen this obvious problem addressed.

I would imagine there are underground tunnels/hallways connecting halves, likely in a cross configuration, which is something I believe common to many large "campuses".

 

[ScottishCaptain]

Neato!

Is this where they're going to house all the non-existent developers required to actually maintain and improve OS X and iOS?

-SC

 

[Phoenixx]

This has to be one of the most idiotic building designs I have ever seen. There is a REASON that companies don't have round buildings like this. Can you imagine how much time is going to be wasted by staff moving from one department to another, when they have a one mile garden to walk across. Talk about form over function. In addition, there is a huge sense if irony in that Apple have effectively created a garden walled in glass, and a building in the shape of a big zero.

Never before has their walled garden approach been so obvious. What will happen next, will they bring out a bug ridden OS and call it See Error?

Oh hang on, they already did that.

 

[faded_glory]

And when it's finished, Mr Cook and all the rest of the senior management will get in it and it will will begin to spin, then rise and then they will fly away taking all the money with them and the last sound we'll hear is that of them laughing. Apple watch wearers who expect to be teleported to the ship to join them, will be disappointed.

 

[Macintoshrumors]

Wow, an office building. I'm supposed to care about an office building. If Cook was an astute CEO, he'd have built the thing somewhere besides California, where cost of doing business was cheaper and employees could enjoy a more affordable cost of living.

They should move to Texas. Imagine how much money they would save by making the move.

 

[Mavelous]

Apple's spaceship-shaped campus in Cupertino, California is nearing completion, and most of the ring-shaped main structure and auxiliary buildings have been finished.

We've seen monthly drone updates of the location during the construction period, letting us keep an eye on Apple's progress, and now SkyIMD has created a neat high-resolution aerial mosaic that gives an incredibly detailed overall view of the nearly-finished campus.

Click here to see a larger high-resolution image on the SkyIMD website​

The image depicts the main spaceship building that is the highlight of the campus, with its massive curved glass windows and huge built-in glass doors that open up into a cafeteria area. The aerial photo, composed of ten 100-megapixel images captured with a PhaseOne iXA-RS1000, was made on December 22.

Duncan Sinfield, who has shared Apple Campus 2 drone videos with MacRumors for several months, has also uploaded an updated video captured on Christmas morning that shows the progress Apple has made on landscaping in recent weeks.

Apple plans to have the campus finished by the beginning of 2017, with employees moving in during the first quarter, but landscaping work will not be finished until the middle of the year.

Article Link: Here's a Detailed Aerial Photograph of Apple Campus 2

It's not thin enough, and the Macfixit teardown gives it a 1 rating......too much glue

 

[44267547]

They should move to Texas. Imagine how much money they would save by making the move.

Except...Apple's heritage and foundation is and has always been in Cupertino. Texas has no Relevance at all. That's like saying let's move Apple's headquarters to Montana because it's cheaper and there is lots of land to build on. Your theory doesn't make much sense.

 

[576316]

How are they going to pay for this? I thought they were going out of business soon.

Or maybe I've been here too long, wading in the toxicity of the posts.

Nobody is dumb enough to think Apple could go out of business any time soon. Such a statement is delusional. We just think their products suck rn.

 

[emm386]

Looking at this megalomania, I begin to understand, why the new, most basic 15" iBook starts at 2400$...

 

[IJ Reilly]

Seriously, "ring", "circle", and if they insist, even "UFO" would be more appropriate names for a building that in no way resembles a "spaceship".

Once these things get going, they don't need to make any sense.

I would imagine there are underground tunnels/hallways connecting halves, likely in a cross configuration, which is something I believe common to many large "campuses".

If you need to walk from the fourth floor on one side building to the fourth floor on the side other then tunnels are not going to be of much help in shortening your journey. It's still down one elevator, walk nearly 1,700 feet across the courtyard, then up another elevator. It would probably be faster to walk the half-mile around the circumference.

This design is so spectacularly inefficient my only supposition is Apple (and by this I mean the real architect, Steve Jobs) didn't think employees need to meet face-to-face. They have technology for that.

It will look great from 10,000 feet though. Somebody called it Earth's home button. So much more apt than describing it as a spaceship.

 

[Creepitor]

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[Keirasplace]

Apple will need to us to buy a lot of iPhones, Macs and iPads to pay for it.

You do know that they got more people working outside this building now, and paying rent for those buildings.... It's like people don't realize Jobs decided to build this thing when Apple had 3-4 times less employees than now.
They could stop selling anything and be able to pay for this for 10+ years.

People don't quite know the scale of Apple.
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You are right. Don't they claim to be a mostly Irish company? Where do they file taxes?

They pay a huge amount of taxes in the US, but whining is sure easier hey.
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This has to be one of the most idiotic building designs I have ever seen. There is a REASON that companies don't have round buildings like this. Can you imagine how much time is going to be wasted by staff moving from one department to another, when they have a one mile garden to walk across. Talk about form over function. In addition, there is a huge sense if irony in that Apple have effectively created a garden walled in glass, and a building in the shape of a big zero.

Never before has their walled garden approach been so obvious. What will happen next, will they bring out a bug ridden OS and call it See Error?

Oh hang on, they already did that.

right.... You do know most of those staff right now are IN DIFFERENT BUILDINGS ALL OVER THE VALLEY.
So, how is 8-10 min max on foot (if your on the opposite side) worse than having to go to your car and drive in hellish silicon valley traffic to go meet another team.

Good grief! Get a god damn grip.

This thing is so huge that entire divisions can easily sit one side of the circle.
If walking
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Once these things get going, they don't need to make any sense.



If you need to walk from the fourth floor on one side building to the fourth floor on the side other then tunnels are not going to be of much help in shortening your journey. It's still down one elevator, walk nearly 1,700 feet across the courtyard, then up another elevator. It would probably be faster to walk the half-mile around the circumference.

This design is so spectacularly inefficient my only supposition is Apple (and by this I mean the real architect, Steve Jobs) didn't think employees need to meet face-to-face. They have technology for that.

It will look great from 10,000 feet though. Somebody called it Earth's home button. So much more apt than describing it as a spaceship.

Not sure how the hell it is inefficient. You do know that those people are not scattered all over the place in 20 different buildings.

If they set up divisions correctly, most people will be less than 5 minutes away.
Considering your not meeting most people everyday, except the team your working with (which would be really close by), it will be pretty efficient.

 

[phrehdd]

Apple Campus?

More like...

Chevron Seven Now Locked.

 

[Judas1]

The building looks beautiful, but functionally it's a mess. Because of its shape, it uses a lot of materials for the office space it can provide. And different parts of the building are unnecessarily far from each other because to include the walled garden, they had to make the outer circumference huge to make up for the missing space from the center. Form over function building.

 

[JamesPDX]

Once these things get going, they don't need to make any sense.



If you need to walk from the fourth floor on one side building to the fourth floor on the side other then tunnels are not going to be of much help in shortening your journey. It's still down one elevator, walk nearly 1,700 feet across the courtyard, then up another elevator. It would probably be faster to walk the half-mile around the circumference.

This design is so spectacularly inefficient my only supposition is Apple (and by this I mean the real architect, Steve Jobs) didn't think employees need to meet face-to-face. They have technology for that.

It will look great from 10,000 feet though. Somebody called it Earth's home button. So much more apt than describing it as a spaceship.

The Pleasure Ring. I'm wondering if they wired it with fiber/ethernet or if they just put in an AEBS every 100 feet. Maybe the whole thing is wired with USB-C. Or even Corning-Fiber Thunderbolt 2.
All that running in circles? Can't people just use Facetime? That would save some wear and tear on the iScooters zipping around and under the iRing.

I wonder how old a worker (they're all executives) must be be before they go to Carousel? Who will be the first one to get locked out of the building and stuck in that immense courtyard? That'd be something.

I got it! Circular-track people movers like at the airport; the real airport, not the other one.

Naw, just yankin' ya. Cool building. I hope they'll put some great solar panels up on that roof. Hope they got the drainage thing down in the center.

 

[goobot]

The building looks beautiful, but functionally it's a mess. Because of its shape, it uses a lot of materials for the office space it can provide. And different parts of the building are unnecessarily far from each other because to include the walled garden, they had to make the outer circumference huge to make up for the missing space from the center. Form over function building.

But if you were to take it and make it a straight line wouldn't it actually be worse since anything from the halfway point on would be further than a circle which you can go either way with?

 

[StevieD100]

Seems like a huge oversight to put the R&D building by a public road.

Isn't all R&D done in Area 51. After all isn't that where the 'magic' happens. This place is just for the spies to see and bug.
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i like the comment by someone prevously that thought when finished a giant finger will come down and use the building to unlock the secrets of the world. this is one giant home button.

But the home button will be gone next year. Will the spacehip lift off at the same time?

 

[shawngt2]

Wow, an office building. I'm supposed to care about an office building. If Cook was an astute CEO, he'd have built the thing somewhere besides California, where cost of doing business was cheaper and employees could enjoy a more affordable cost of living.

You my friend are evidence of how many people or ignorant of the facts and like to post crap like this. Important lesson for you...Business is all about attracting the right employees! Since silicone valley is the centre in regards to technology, where else would you like them to setup? Start from scratch in Ireland or maybe Detroit and watch the products drop off the deep end? Man...I always seem to regret reading posts as it seems to harvest idiocy at its finest...

 

[Judas1]

But if you were to take it and make it a straight line wouldn't it actually be worse since anything from the halfway point on would be further than a circle which you can go either way with?

You can make it a circle minus the inner garden. You can make it a square. The missing space for the garden makes it as space saving as a long rectangle.