The Adobe World Headquarters is the

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, located in

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Towers

The complex consists of four towers: West, East, Almaden, and Founders Tower. The 18-story, West Tower, first built in 1996, was the sixth tallest in the city of San Jose, and has of office space. The 16-story, East Tower has of office space, and was constructed next to the West Tower in 1998. In 2003, 17-story Almaden Tower was completed adding . In 2023, The 18-story Founders Tower was completed, adding . The buildings are situated atop of a enclosed parking garage. Both the West and East towers house Adobe's Research and Development and Sales and Marketing departments, while the Almaden Tower houses administration and staff. The Founders Tower was completed after Adobe changed the typeface on its logo in 2017, but features the pre-2017 logo for consistency with the three other towers.

Design

The buildings are known for their green design. The West Tower is listed as an

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labeled building by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In 2006, all three towers were awarded

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(LEED) Platinum certification by the United States Green Building Council for

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San Jose Semaphore

Adobe's Almaden Tower is also notable for having the "San Jose Semaphore," an installation consisting of four rotating lights created in 2006 by artist Ben Rubin. The lights rotate every 7.2 seconds according to a code; the pattern was deciphered in 2007 by Mark Snesrud and Bob Mayo, who discovered the final message being

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's '' The Crying of Lot 49''. The duo published a whitepaper chronicling their process of decoding. A new riddle was displayed in 2012; and the new code was deciphered in 2017 by high school teacher Jimmy Waters from Tennessee. Waters noticed that a particular sequence in the code might represent an audio silence. Running the full sequence through audio software and changing the pitch, he heard Neil Armstrong's " One small step for man" speech from the 1969 Apollo Moon landing. On 11 May 2023, a new riddle was put up on the ''San Jose Semaphore''.

References

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