The white-stucco house had an unusual and superbly insulating double-wall system, evoking the heft of adobe. The massing drew inspiration from Andalusian villages.
Culminating years of legal battle with preservationists, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs finally demolished the historic Jackling House on his property in Woodside, California, in February. This affluent Silicon Valley enclave, some 30 miles from San Francisco, issued the demolition permit, and, within days, the 1926 mansion—by architect George Washington Smith, father of Spanish Colonial Revival style in the U.S.—was flattened, leaving, in a cloud of dust, issues relevant far beyond the picturesque town of Woodside.
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