Wednesday, March 12, 2008
IBM's creativity building creatively burnt
In 1957, IBM built a complex in San Jose that was different from the grimy Industrial Age factories and offices then closing in East Coast cities. Its open, campus-like feeling was so representative of America's technical prowess and creative spark that U.S. officials included a tour of it as part of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 visit. Last weekend, IBM Building 25, as it's known, burned down.