The first shots of Apple Inc.'s under-construction, spaceship-like headquarters have hit the web and they're being compared to the Stonehenge.
Over the Labor Day weekend, a drone video of the work-in-progress office space in Cupertino, Calif., went viral online. Now, the area is looking pretty distraught as if a spaceship had landed at the spot and left a huge dent on the ground.
The video is courtesy of YouTube User jmcminn, who took the bird's eye view of the site through a GoPro Hero 3+ and a Phantom 2 drone, according to The Telegraph. The footage was sent live from the camera mounted on the drone to a pair of Carl Zeiss video goggles jmcminn was wearing.
Take a look at the eight-minute clip of the construction site below:
Stonehenge Comparison
The video emerged just as it was revealed that the Stonehenge - the famous English burial ground - was indeed the perfect Neolithic circle. For ages now, archaeologists and historians have wondered if the rocks at Stonehenge formed a perfect circle, but there wasn't really any evidence that proved it.
However, this summer when volunteers were watering the grass at the site using a water hose, the pipe fell short and a part of the grass remained un-watered. The dry patch marks on the other side signified that there were stones once upon a time and the Stonehenge was completely circular.
"It's really significant, and it shows us just how much we still have to learn about Stonehenge," The Daily Mail quoted Susan Greaney from English Heritage.
"It's great that people who know the site really well and look at it every day were able to spot these parch marks and recognize them for what they were. We maintain the grass with watering when it's very dry in the summer, but our hosepipe doesn't reach to the other side of the stone circle," Greaney added.
Apple's Headquarters
Apple announced plans of building the "spaceship" campus in Cupertino more than two years ago. The project was unveiled by the company's co-founder, chairman and CEO Steve Jobs, just months before his death in 2011. British architect Norman Foster was roped in to give the project a stone-and-brick form.
The office is slated to complete construction by 2016 and will be able to accommodate more than 13,000 employees. The premises will include a research and development center, a fitness centre, a 1000-seat auditorium and a private park as well.
The building will also be a "net-zero-facility", which means it will produce its own energy to power its premises "using 700,000 square feet of solar panels, creating 8 megawatts of power", according to CBS Local.
