Mr. Stern buried the warehouse part of the project into a contoured landscape so that he could create two entrances a kind of church and state separation for the museum and archive facing north, across the street from SMU's Greek Row, and for the George W. Bush Institute, a public-policy think tank, with a more formal circular driveway on a lower level facing west.
Apple employee Amandeep Jawa, who takes the company bus to work, covered the driveway of his Victorian with a "parklet, " a public space registered with the city featuring seating and greenery.