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Many of these buildings are in truly breathtaking locations... but depressingly isolated. The most beautiful I have visited: The John Deere HQ (featured in the

• andars 10y ago
  The Almaden research center has a great location, but isn't in a state park. It's near a county park, which might be what you are thinking of.
  • pesenti 10y ago
    Oh right, thanks! Corrected.
  • smaili 10y ago
    Beat me to it! There also used to be one on Cottle Road but was closed down.
    • andars 10y ago
      IIRC correctly (not sure on this one), there also used to be an IBM campus a few miles to the west and there still is another campus on Bailey a few miles east. Pretty incredible that there used to be 4 (maybe 3) large-scale IBM campuses all within a ~10 mile radius.
• hbosch 10y ago
  Don't forget the Andrew Lloyd Wright masterpiece that serves as the SC Johnson HQ in scenic Racine Wisconsin: https://www.google.com/search?q=sc+johnson&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=nmiv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjW7-Cd4-XPAhVMyVQKHavcBKsQ_AUICSgD&biw=414&bih=628#hl=en-us&tbm=isch&q=sc+johnson+office https://www.google.com/search?q=sc+johnson&client=safari&hl=...
  • snewk 10y ago
    Andrew? I thought it was FLW.
    • bstpierre 10y ago
      He was the adopted son of Frank Lloyd Wright and Andrew Lloyd Webber -- the building is also a musical masterpiece.
      • coredog64 10y ago
        Mr. Muscle Superstar Do you think you're what they say you are?
    • cossatot 10y ago
      Yeah, I think he's conflating Frank Lloyd Wright and Andrew Lloyd Weber.
  • CPLX 10y ago
    Indeed. A landmark of the Arts & Cats movement.
    • raverbashing 10y ago
      I think you mean Arts & Crafts but I like your version
      • CapitalistCartr 10y ago
        He's making an Andrew Lloyd Webber-Frank Lloyd Wright joke.
• FireBeyond 10y ago
  One of my favorite buildings, the Weyerhaeuser (paper company) HQ in Federal Way, just south of Seattle, sits well and integrates with the terrain around it: https://www.google.com/search?q=weyerhaeuser+headquarters&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X https://www.google.com/search?q=weyerhaeuser+headquarters&so...
  • koenigdavidmj 10y ago
    They left that building a few months ago and now are based in Pioneer Square, near downtown Seattle.
    • eonw 10y ago
      i really hope someone buys it and uses it, its such a beautiful piece of architecture.
  • tyoverby 10y ago
    I've always wondered what that building was! Looks really cool from the freeway too.
  • trop 10y ago
    It used to be one could drive over to it, and on a weekend people (not of the executive class) would be out picnicking or flying kites by the surrounding pools. There was a corporate-sponsored bonsai garden (appropriate for a company in the tree business) which was open to the public. That was in the mid-90s.
    • eonw 10y ago
      the bonsai museum is still there, is one of the best in the US and still worth the visit. http://pacificbonsaimuseum.org/ http://pacificbonsaimuseum.org/ the gardens are also worth checking out if you are in the area, the entrance is right near the bonsaid museum entrance.
• kkylin 10y ago
  Should anyone find themselves near Purchase, NY, PepsiCo headquarters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_M._Kendall_Sculpture_Gardens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_M._Kendall_Sculpture_Ga...) is worth a stop.
• spangry 10y ago
  Wow. That John Deere HQ is really beautiful. It reminds me of traditional Japanese architecture.