Yes, sometimes bloggers do get lucky. I got a chance to visit the world headquarters of PepsiCo in US. This has to be one of the prettiest office campuses I have seen. Located about 31 miles from New York city is the HQ at Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, New York, USA. Yeah the city is actually called Purchase and is part of Westchester County.
Westchester County is marked in red in the map of New York state.
What amazed me was the sculpture garden which is an integral part of the PepsiCo campus. Named after Don Kendall the company's former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, the garden was designed to integrate architecture, landscape, and sculpture.
There are 45 large-scale pieces of bronze, marble, steel, nickel, resin, granite and spruce by 20th century artists. The whole surrounding is just so cool and green. The perfectly manicured gardens and the sculptures tucked away in various corners was lovely.
The one sculpture that is most often photographed is this one. These are all supposed to be the sculptures friends in real life who have been immortalized.
You don't need a ticket to visit the garden. It is open to the public and so just pack your bags and land up here. And yes if you wanted to let your dogs enjoy sculpture, bring them along - but on a leash (says the security guard).
2 comments:
I went to school at Suny Purchase which is write across the street from PepsiCo.
PepsiCo was kind enough to let us visit their sculpture garden quite a few times. It is very beautiful there. And the facilities on the inside are pretty cool too.
James must have been visiting ths place the day they taught the difference between "write" and "right"!
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