Silicon Valley’s tech whizzes have transformed technology and society. And they have done so in a region noted for its suburban ordinariness, with its great inventions starting life in tinkerers’ garages.
That’s all about to change, with the advent of two major buildings, the new campus for Apple by Britain’s Sir Norman Foster and the new headquarters for Facebook, by LA’s Frank Gehry.
Silicon Valley’s tech whizzes have transformed technology and society. And they have done so in a region noted for its suburban ordinariness, with its great inventions starting life in tinkerers’ garages.
That’s all about to change, with the advent of two major buildings, the new campus for Apple by Britain’s Norman Foster and the new headquarters for Facebook, by LA’s Frank Gehry.
This segment is about the gleaming Apple building that is going to touch down in an area of Cupertino currently filled with drab office buildings and strip malls. We learn about the architect, Norman Foster, and how locals feel about the pending arrival of the vast glass, concrete and metal ring already dubbed the “spaceship.”