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  • Apple Park Campus recreated in Minecraft video

    While it’s still about a month before Apple starts moving employees into its new Apple Park campus, Minecraft aficionado Alex Westerlund has gone to extraordinary lengths and built a full scale model of the Apple Park campus in Minecraft.

    While we saw preliminary takes on this idea earlier this year, Westerlund’s newest video of the project shows the entire campus in its completed state. He explains that the project took him a total of 413 hours of work, first starting as a hobby then turning into a full-time commitment.

    Westerlund also cited that because of the spaceship ring design, the model was difficult to recreate with Minecraft cubes.

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  • Apple fires Campus 2 primary contractor, Swedish firm Skanska

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    There’s just no pleasing some people.

    Apple has fired Skanska, its Swedish contractor, which has been working on its “spaceship” Campus 2 project.

    Skanska issued a statement saying that it had reached an impasse in negotiations with an unidentified customer over changes in the scope of work, and that it had been terminated from the project. It said the lost work would cost it roughly US$800 million.

    A Cupertino city official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the joint venture partnership of DPR/Skanska had been replaced on Apple’s high-profile project.

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