It’s been nearly a year since the nominal completion of tech monolith Apple’s $5 billion, Lord Normal Foster-designed, spaceship-like headquarters in Cupertino, with its acres of solar panels, cornucopia of parking spaces, and potentially hazardous glass walls.
It’s also been nearly a year since Curbed SF checked in on the facility’s progress via South Bay videographer Matthew Roberts’ regular aerial overviews with his drones; Roberts spent over a year charting the progress of the building in construction on his YouTube channel.
In his most recent upload on Monday, an old time’s sake-style flyby revealed that the extensive (and expensive) landscaping in and around Foster’s ring now looks downright pristine and manicured, finally lending Apple Park the park-like atmosphere that it sought.
Reportedly, some 9,000 trees dot the campus. So many, in fact, that the company’s purchases might have caused a brief tree shortage for similar projects last year, although that may or may not have been a slight exaggeration at the time. Notice that many of the rows of saplings have some growing yet to do before they (and thus the building) reach their full potential.