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Apple's $5 billion campus wasn't always meant to be a 'spaceship' — here's what it could've looked like

Apple Park, Apple's new $5 billion (£3.7 billion) Cupertino, California headquarters, wasn't always designed to look like the aptly named, ring-looking "Spaceship" it is.

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The Norman Foster Foundation — which branches out from the famous architecture studio that helped Apple design and build Apple Park — recently published a book with pictures depicting different designs for the tech giant's new home (as first reported by 9to5Mac).

Apple Park (Dec '17)
Apple Park. Matthew Roberts/YouTube

The book, filled with shots by photographer José Manuel Ballester, is called "Spaces," and shows prototype ideas that vary from a simple cluster of buildings (not too different from the old One Infinite Loop's layout), to more radical designs like a spider-looking building or a three-blade propeller, which Steve Jobs himself was apparently a fan of.

Apple's collaboration with Foster + Partners doesn't stop there, however; the two also set up "Common Futures," an exhibition that will run until February 4 at Madrid's Espacio Fundación Telefónica.

The studio set up a number of scale models of some of its buildings there, including one for Apple's Park, in a space that also includes sketches of older design ideas and more.

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