This Week on DnA: Silicon Valley Gets an Edifice Complex

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Silicon Valley’s tech whizzes have transformed technology and society. And they have done so in a region noted for its suburban ordinariness.

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The bright minds of Silicon Valley 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 landing of Apple’s Norman Foster-designed “spaceship” in Cupertino (above) and Frank Gehry’s vast building for Facebook in Menlo Park (below).