This is our best look yet at Apple's new spaceship campus (AAPL)
Apple's spaceship campus is coming along nicely from the looks of it.
A drone was recently flown over the company's new Cupertino headquarters, which is still currently under construction. From the aerial footage you see just how grand the structure will really be.
The building, which is a whopping 2.8 million square feet, will house more than 12,000 employees.
It will also feature an additional 300,000 square feet for its R&D facilities and a 120,000 square foot auditorium, which is not attached to the main building, that seats 1,000 people.
Steve Jobs compared the futuristic-looking building, called Apple Campus 2, to a spaceship when he presented the plans for it during a Cupertino City Council meeting in June 2011. The main building is shaped like a ring and features a spacious garden in the center. It's also a "net-zero energy" building and has 700,000 square feet on solar panels.
The architectural firm Forster + Partners is behind the design of the building, which is expected to be complete by the end of 2017.
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