14 DAY TRIAL // After a drone video with the Spaceship campus a month ago, detailing the latest construction progress, we now have a new video recorded using a DJI Inspire 1 drone with an unofficial look at what the site looks like.
The new 4K high-definition drone footage also contains comparison flashes between the previous and the current states of the construction, thus describing in even more detail how close Apple is to the end of the building process.
The Apple Campus 2 with a floor area of 2,800,000 square feet (260,000 square meters) has been announced by the former Apple CEO Steve Jobs in April 2006, to be built at a cost of approximately $500 million (€448 million) and to be unveiled in 2015.
Moreover, this new campus comes as a quite substantial upgrade considering that Apple's old headquarters are a "meager" 850,000 square feet (79,000 square meters) of floor area. This, coupled with the numerous additional buildings comprising the new Spaceship site, should keep Apple employees happy for at least a decade or two.
Steve Jobs was actually known to have had a central role in the final design of the Campus 2 while still battling his ongoing pancreatic cancer. Furthermore, even though he wasn't in its best form, he did take the time to appear during Cupertino City Council hearings regarding the Spaceship's construction approval.
According to Tim Cook, the current Apple CEO, the new headquarters might be named after Steve Jobs due to Jobs' involvement in the project and the legacy left behind for both the company and its users.
Announced to be finished in 2015, delayed until 2017
Although the initial project cost was the number Apple has stood behind for about 7 years, in 2013 the figure was changed to a more realistic $5 billion (€4.5 billion), most probably updated to cover the additional costs of added structures around the campus such as research and development facilities and an energy plant among many other new features added after the initial plan was revealed.
Because it experienced a number of delays at the start of the project, the Spaceship campus will be ready to house its first Apple employees two years later, in 2017, of the 13000 it should host after the construction is finished.
From the newly released video and with the help of the flashback comparison embedded in the footage by Duncan Sinfield, it is easy to see that even though the building has not by all means reached a final stage, advances are very simple to spot and Apple will most definitely keep up its promise of unveiling the new campus in 2017 as it promised in 2012.
Until Apple publishes an official overview of their new Spaceship campus, just hit the Play button below to watch the raw video containing the building progress comparison between the August recording and the one from September.
