{"id":1008,"date":"2003-03-16T18:57:07","date_gmt":"2003-03-17T10:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/17\/building-42\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T15:13:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T23:13:26","slug":"building-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/16\/building-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Building 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An entertaining little bit of trivia about Microsoft&#8217;s building numbering schemes over on Scott Guthrie&#8217;s blog produced this <a href=\"http:\/\/dotnetweblogs.com\/ScottGu\/posts\/3872.aspx\" title=\"ScottGu's blog: Moving offices\">amusing bit of MS trivia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#91;Building 42&#93; is also a little unique in that it straddles the line between the cities of Redmond and Bellevue. This was apparently something of a challenge when getting planning permission &#8212; since Redmond had a town ordinance that prevented buildings from being more than three stories tall, while Bellevue allowed an unrestricted number of building floors to be built.<\/p>\n<p>  Microsoft wanted the new Building 42 to be a nice four stories tall &#8212; but despite the fact that 2\/3rds of it would have lived in Bellevue, the planning permission folks in Redmond apparently insisted that it not be more than three. After a lot of wrangling, they finally reached a compromise whereby the 1\/3rd of the building that lived in Redmond was built to be 3 stories tall &#8212; and the 2\/3rds of the building which lived in Bellevue was built to the full 4 stories in height.<\/p>\n<p>  If you are ever driving past campus on 156^th^ Avenue, you can spot the exact Redmond\/Bellevue city border by seeing where an otherwise normal, professional looking building suddenly changes height.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t my building &#8212; MSCopy, the Xerox printshop for Microsoft, is over in Building 123 &#8212; I just thought it was interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are ever driving past [the Microsoft] campus on 156<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue, you can spot the exact Redmond\/Bellevue city border by seeing where an otherwise normal, professional looking building suddenly changes height.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}