If you hike the South Bay hills from Palo Alto to San Jose, you see the Apple Spaceship gleaming in Cupertino. It now dominates the landscape as a reference point the way Hoover Tower at Stanford, Moffett Field, the salt ponds, or the tents at Shoreline Amphitheater did in an earlier time. It is an amazing architectural tour de force.
I look forward to seeing it next time I’m out that way. I think it’s a good thing that corporations put a little architectural effort into their HQ. I work across from the Chrysler Building in NYC and even though it was built in the 1920s, it’s still magnificent to look at every day. I even liked the Pan Am building before it got changed to MetLife.