Aerial footage of the new state-of-art Apple complex in Cupertino, California was released on Tuesday, just as the American multinational technology company sets to open its new facility next week.
The public debut of Apple Park is scheduled for September 12, where the company is expected to hold its first-ever product unveiling at the new Steve Jobs Theater.
Shot by drone pilot Duncan Sinfield, the footage shows a nearly complete main ‘spaceship’ structure, along with landscaping work inside the main ring of the building.
The new headquarters has an estimated cost of $5billion and span 2.8 million square feet
Apple began developing the project in 2014 but was conceived by the late Steve Jobs in 2009
The facility will be based in Cupertino, California and have over 9,000 tress planted in and around the facility
It’s expected the final tree count will be around 9,000 and will include apple, apricot, and cherry trees.
The drone images also shows the finished Steve Job’s Theater, named after the late visionary leader of Apple, sitting atop a man-made hill with a glass exterior foyer.
Meanwhile, construction workers building the Apple Park have been posting photos and videos of the firm’s new $5billion headquarters.
One video shows the exterior of the spaceship, the sleek walls of the new theater, the ‘Apple Campus tunnel,’ and several areas still under construction.
In subsequent videos, both interior and exterior walls of the 360-degree curved glass office building, which has been nicknamed ‘spaceship, can be seen.
New drone footage of state-of-the-art Apple Park was released to the public on Tuesday
The footage comes just days before the highly anticipated grand opening of its new facility on September 12
The building also features a two-story yoga room, a 4,000 person café with four-story glass doors, and even patented pizza boxes to prevent food from getting soggy.
The 2.8 million-square-foot ‘Apple Park’ campus was originally commissioned by the late Steve Jobs in 2009 and house 13,000 Apple techies.
Jobs called it ‘the best office building in the world’ and the current Apple CEO, Tim Cook, now refers to it as a ‘gift’ to the future of Apple employees.
Inside the circular building, each floor will be lined with fins called ‘canopies,’ which will be equipped with specially designed vents on the underside that will allow the Ring to ‘inhale’ air and breathe.
Apple began developing the project in 2014 and has since been working around the clock to finish the campus, which opened to employees in April – although the entire space is not yet complete.
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an event at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California March 21, 2016