[dieselgate]

Was it displayed at the Civic Center or did Autodesk have an office location in Sausalito? I had never heard of this Bay Model and believe to only have seen a model at the (new location) of the Exploratorium - this was over a decade ago so don't quite recall

[hnav]

Autodesk was founded in Marin and later moved down. This model is 10km^2 so it's not moving anywhere.

[gregschlom]

Nitpick: the model is 100m x 100m roughly, so 10,000m^2 which is 0.01km^2

[dieselgate]

Yes, the Marin Civic Center in Terra Linda is what I'm referring to.

Edit: above said "next door" so I'm curious how literal they meant this

[msisk6]

Literally next door. Maybe one other building between Autodesk and the Bay Model.

When I started in 1990, most of engineering at Autodesk was in 2320 and 2330 Marinship Way in Sausalito. Later I moved down the street across from Mollie Stone in 3 Harbor. The infamous every-Friday "Beer Bust" was in 1 Harbor during those years.

Ted Nelson had a house boat not far way, too. Wild times.

A few years later we moved up to the new HQ on McInnis Parkway in San Rafael. We also had several buildings on Civic Center Drive and several floors of 4000 on top of the hill. I think I had an office in all of those at one time or another except the HQ building -- I managed to escape that and the new fangled "open office space" they put in that one.

[dieselgate]

Amazing and thanks for elaborating, super cool to hear the history after growing up nearby

[antod]

I'm guessing you meant 10k m^2 (ie 1 hectare) rather than 10km ^2 (10,000 hectares if I mathed correctly)