High-Profile Tear-Down
Via C/NET:
Apple Computer and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs received the green light from local government officials Tuesday to demolish a historic building on his property in Woodside, Calif.
Jobs, who owns an expansive Mission Revival home designed by the late, internationally known architect George Washington Smith, was battling with preservationists, who sought to keep the home intact. The building had fallen into severe disrepair over the years.
This San Francisco Chronicle article, dated July 24, 2004, provides a good overview of the story: The Battle To Preserve The House That Steve Jobs Bought.
Jobs: “One of the biggest abominations of a house I’ve ever seen.” 
Photo courtesy of University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara
How upsetting. What are you going to do now Devon, sell the old Mac?
Build yourself a Linux box. No guilt, open source all the way!
I’m completely baffled by Jobs’ decision to destroy this amazing home (no, I don’t buy the “usual” agruement that the building is in a state of “severe disrepair”).
I think I’ll keep the Mac for know, at least until you teach me how to build a Linux box!