The new Abobe campus in Lehi, Utah is remarkable on two fronts, but neither of them seem to come together at any point, but maybe that’s the point.  Looking at the exterior and the architecture on its own and this is a cold, technical and modern building.

Then you take a look at Rapt Studio‘s stunning work to humanize things with murals, conversation pits and other warm and fuzzy graphics and furniture.

What strikes me as interesting is that even after all these warm touches are added, you still see the cold concrete, steel and glass remains mostly untouched. At first I thought the interior work really didn’t do much to make the space more human. Then I realized that maybe that was exactly the point.  Adobe makes software that is very technical and black box, but that software gives users the potential to create warm, emotional and human stuff we call art.  

By keeping these two elements (the architecture and the interior) starkly separated then maybe Rapt Studio did something quite incredible: showed off both sides of Adobe together in one space, but didn’t let one try and cover up or hide the other.

More photos on Forbes and Complex.