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Apple’s New Floating, Spherical Store in Singapore

By Rain Noe From Core77

You could be forgiven for thinking that Apple has colluded with Singapore’s ultra-wealthiest citizens to provide a catastrophic-global-warming-event escape pod. The city-state’s newest Apple store, Apple Marina Bay Sands, looks like a cross between Westworld’s Rehoboam and a floating Death Star that might have its own source of motive power:

Over at MacRumors, reader stuarty2003 posted some actual photos:

Image credit: stuarty2003

Image credit: stuarty2003

Image credit: stuarty2003

While the images might fool you into thinking it’s free-floating, the Straits Times indicates that the structure is connected to a nearby shopping center by an underground/underwater passageway. From the surface, it can be accessed by a sweeping boardwalk.

What we’d really like to see: The pandemic disappears, a new iPhone is launched, and the line to get into the store looks like this:

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