The recent video was shot last week by David Sexton, who uploaded the footage to his YouTube channel - Sexton Videography, reports 9to5Mac. Apple Campus 2 was commissioned by the late Steve Jobs in 2009, who called it 'the best office building in the world' - Cook now refers to it as a 'gift' to the future of Apple employees. Built on a massive 175 acres, the finished campus will span 2.8 million square feet house 13,000 Apple techies and be self-sufficient with 7,000 trees planted in the dirt removed from the park to build the compound. The latest aerial view shows the Cupertino construction site, with a 100,000-square-foot fitness center, 20,000 car garage and a main circle lined with glass windows.
Apple Campus 2 will additionally have underground parking hidden from view, meaning 80 per cent of the site can be covered in trees. The site was previously owned by Hewlett Packard and the majority of the area is currently covered in asphalt. Elsewhere underground, the auditorium will be where Apple's CEO Tim Cook will present the companies keynotes ahead of product launches, for example. This auditorium will be covered with a circular glass pavilion that will also be an access point for employees and guests. Natural gas will, primarily, provide the building's power and the local energy grid will only be accessed in emergencies.
The glass structure will also be fitted with solar panels. The circular, four-storey building will be around a mile in circumference and a third of a mile wide and was recently described by the San Fransisco Weekly as a ‘massive glass doughnut’. The building stays eco-friendly with natural ventilation that works instead of air-conditioning for 70 per cent of the year, low energy LED lighting where natural light doesn’t reach, and on-site recycling. Still to come is several on-site cafes and landscaping, and Apple believes this work will continue through the year until sometime in 2017. Another clip surfaced in October, showing the installation of solar panels on the circular 'spaceship' building was around 40 percent complete.
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