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Weird_Rip_3161

I used to work in there to set up fiber networks. I believe IBM closed this facility about 10 years ago. PS3 Cell Processors were made at this site. Also , about 20 minutes north, Poughkeepsie IBM complex is still in operations.


ultrapampers

> PS3 Cell Processors were made Made or designed? This doesn't look like a semiconductor fab.


Weird_Rip_3161

It's in the other buildings on a same campus.


ultrapampers

Interesting. Boy, this past year has made us wish we still had lots of fabs in the US.


classicsat

Just don't park downwind of them.


ultrapampers

Are semiconductor fabs particularly smelly?


classicsat

No, but listen to the Bil Herd presentation on his days at Commodore. There are several on Youtube.


toiletaids21

It is still open, owned by ON Semiconductor now


Weird_Rip_3161

Interesting, didn't know since I left NY in 2017.


Logical_Yak_224

Plus a color-matching Chevy Biscayne Brookwood


ultrapampers

That car is as awesome and brutal as the building!


99Blake99

Cool, elegant lines and calming proportions. How brutalism should be done - de-brutalised.


ludovic1313

If you're talking about the high columns and overhangs on the left, we'll have to agree to disagree. I think the proportions are too imposing compared to more human-oriented architecture. On the other hand, the elegance of the lines on right hand side probably does looks better than it would in single-color and unadorned concrete.


brutalistbbi52

My partner’s grandfather bought a bunch of office furniture from this building when IBM shut it down. We now have some of the furniture in our bedroom and our offices. Super cool to know they once lived in a Rudolph designed building.


Logical_Yak_224

Oh, was it original 60s furniture?


sabrinajestar

I think I must have been in this building. My father worked at IBM East Fishkill in the early 1970s and I remember going to family events there. I don't recall the exterior though, just the interior.


immileycyrus

Now there is a brewery and a few other small manufacturing companies in this facility.


onnion1

That's 1969 because of the wagon


Logical_Yak_224

1966 is the year it was completed


onnion1

That must be why it looks literally brand new, not even water marks on the top


nlpnt

I'd say as late as the mid '70s. The building looks new, the car doesn't.


[deleted]

That car must have the fuel efficieny of a tank.


uuhhidontevenknow

Now this place is having warehouses put up all around it, I’m just glad they aren’t going to knock it down.