The West Tower is listed as an Energy Star labeled building by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

[12] Adobe's Almaden Tower is also notable for having the "San Jose Semaphore," an installation consisting of four rotating lights created in 2006 by artist Ben Rubin.

[13] The lights rotate every 7.2 seconds according to a code; the pattern was deciphered in 2007 by Mark Snesrud and Bob Mayo, who discovered the final message being Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49.

[16] A new riddle was displayed in 2012;[17] and the new code was deciphered in 2017 by high school teacher Jimmy Waters from Tennessee.

Running the full sequence through audio software and changing the pitch, he heard Neil Armstrong's "One small step for man" speech from the 1969 Apollo Moon landing.