New mid-April drone footage shows trespasser's view of Apple Park site

The latest drone footage captured by YouTube videographer Duncan Sinfield peers into Apple Park windows and flies under the solar panel roof of its parking structure, adding additional images of the construction site at night.

Apparently taken just days ago, the drone footage hops around the nearly finished campus, hovering for floor-level shots of its empty (but essentially complete) above-ground parking garages, then skims the tree tops of the landscaped plot before flying right up in the windows of its central Spaceship ring.

Some of the included footage was captured at night, including views into the Spaceships high-ceiling cafeteria and shots of its Phase 2 research and design facilities flanking the southeast corner of the site (above, top).

While much of the projects ground cover is still missing, it appears that most of its trees have been planted. The interiors of the sites buildings also suggest that Apple is on target to begin moving employees into the new facility shortly.

Originally known as Apple Campus 2, work began in 2013 on demolishing the former structures and parking lots used by HP, followed by rapid construction process that kicked off in 2014.

In February, Apple announced that the site would be called Apple Park, and that its 1,000 seat underground theater would be named after the companys late cofounder Steve Jobs.

19 Comments

aaarrrgggh 1607 comments · 18 Years

About 7 years ago

Still looks a month or two off from general occupancy to me, but you never know how their phasing is planned.

paul turner 222 comments · 9 Years

Cubicles: arghhhhhhhh
Cubicle "if you put a human being inside a cage, what kind of behavoir do you really think you are going to get?"

The monotonous atmosphere: Jennifer Eiber, who spent nearly a decade working in a cubicle before leaving her corporate jobs to become a freelance writer, said it's hard to be creative in that type of setting.

"There's nothing that sucks the soul out of your life's work then repeatedly sitting in the exact same environment day after day," Eiber said. "It's a challenge to whip up ideas when staring at the same windowless, no-natural-light box every day."

dyno86 3 comments · 10 Years

I am about 90% sure they already employees moved in even temporarily. I spent sometime around there last week and saw a constant volume of black coaches coming in and out each marked with different letters signifying different apple campuses around the area. Most of them I saw went to Infinite Loop

Can see quite a lot just from the road such as traffic moving throughout the campus. It looks like they have a new visitor centre waiting to open near Gate 7 looks like it would accdate visitors to Apple Park for conferences and events

Soli 9981 comments · 9 Years

paul turner said:

Cubicles: arghhhhhhhh
Cubicle "if you put a human being inside a cage, what kind of behavoir do you really think you are going to get?"

The monotonous atmosphere: Jennifer Eiber, who spent nearly a decade working in a cubicle before leaving her corporate jobs to become a freelance writer, said it's hard to be creative in that type of setting.
"There's nothing that sucks the soul out of your life's work then repeatedly sitting in the exact same environment day after day," Eiber said. "It's a challenge to whip up ideas when staring at the same windowless, no-natural-light box every day."

Are you applying a cubicle as being bad for all Apple employees? Wouldn't an office have the same effect, if not worse, because it's more of a cage with the same repetitiveness? Wouldn't sitting at, say, a giant communal table also be the same day in and day out environment? How does that benefit, say, the accounting department?