Apple Park tree quota leaves local contractors scrambling for foliage Apple's plans to plant 9,000 trees at its forthcoming Apple Park headquarters is putting pressure on the local market, forcing contractors working on other San Francisco projects to source trees from nearby states. Mikey Campbell 9 years ago 35
Apple Park consumed more by parking space than actual offices - report When it opens to workers later this month, Apple Park will reportedly offer nearly 3.5 million square feet of parking — even more than the roughly 3.4 million square feet of offices people will actually work in. Roger Fingas 9 years ago 40
Samsung could have its own Apple Park with $5 billion, but has the ashes of Galaxy Note 7 instead There are a lot of ways to blow through $5,000,000,000. Apple supposedly spent that much building its new Apple Park campus, while Samsung says it figuratively (and literally) will burn through that much capital in the aftermath of rushing its flawed Galaxy Note 7 to market and then pulling it off shelves in one of the worst operational catastrophes in the history of the smartphone industry. Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 72
New Apple Park drone footage reveals occupied research and development building, landscaping progress Following a break in nasty weather, the latest drone footage of Apple Park shows yet more landscaping progress, an occupied research and development building, and the removal of most of the heavy-lifting machinery from the campus. Mike Wuerthele 9 years ago 38
Apple Park Flyover imagery, informational data shows up in latest Apple Maps update Apple in a recent update to its Apple Maps service added satellite and drone imagery, as well as related geolocation tags, covering Apple Park, the company's headquarters that is currently under construction in Cupertino, Calif. AppleInsider Staff 9 years ago 7
Apple Park HQ buttressed by Central & Wolfe 'AC3' campus in Sunnyvale, Calif. Alongside the soon-to-open Apple Park, the iPhone maker's lesser-known "AC3" Central & Wolfe campus is also nearing completion, boasting many of the same environmental efforts that the main campus will provide. Mike Wuerthele 9 years ago 19
Google radically scales back glassy new HQ plans, unveils conventional corporate building instead Less than two years ago, Google unveiled plans to build a new campus project as a vast open air city replete with greenery, inside of a massive glass greenhouse atrium. Now, the company is forwarding plans to build a basic tent-shaped building. Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 72
Apple's Green Bonds funded $441.5 million of environmental safety, conservation, climate change action in 2016 Last February, Apple issued its first Green Bond, a $1.5 billion vehicle for investors seeking to put their capital to work on projects that will reduce the global human impact on climate change, help develop technology products using safer materials and work to conserve scarce resources. The company has now reported on a series of projects financed by those bonds last year. Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 5
New Apple Park drone footage shows advancing landscaping, near-final solar array completion The latest drone footage of Apple Park shot in early March shows significant landscaping progress in only a few days, and emphasizes the enormity of the campus in comparison to the surrounding neighborhood. Mike Wuerthele 9 years ago 34
