Google shows off the plans for a new 1.1-million-square-foot "Bay View" campus
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It looks like Google is planning to expand its office space once again, and this one is going to be big. Today, Google showed off concept renders for a new campus that would be 1.1 million square feet and would be called the "Bay View" campus, which is referring to its location with a view of San Francisco Bay, and not the city in northern California, Bayview.
The new campus would still be in Mountain View, but closer to the bay. The renders of the complex are pretty interesting, and show a lot of Google's data-driven ethos. The way that people work was intensely studied before the designs were made up, and used to create certain features of the new campus. The most impressive of which is that supposedly on the new campus no employee would be more than a 2.5 minute walk from each other.
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The parking lots are hidden away, giving the campus a much cleaner look, and all of the buildings are connected with bridges. The new campus is expected to have 9 buildings, which are planned to expand the current Googleplex of 65 buildings, and not replace them. Each building is designed as a bent rectangle in order to promote "casual collision of the work force."
No word on when construction could start.
source: Vanity Fair via The Verge
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13 Comments
1. windroid posted on 22 Feb 2013, 18:13 0 0
It's impressive!
Good luck with the project google!
2. rusticguy posted on 22 Feb 2013, 18:13 2 1
Compare this with "1 infinite circle" of Apple :)
7. PapaSmurf posted on 22 Feb 2013, 18:22 0 0
And stay here until I retire.
Edit: That rhymed lol.
4. MistB posted on 22 Feb 2013, 18:18 0 0
That looks grand!
I haven't spotted this on skyscrapercity, they should add this to their General Urban Developments section. Wondering who else on here is a member of SSC?
5. PapaSmurf posted on 22 Feb 2013, 18:21 1 1
I wish I worked for Google. The employees' get the best benefits I've ever seen.
8. menny07 posted on 22 Feb 2013, 18:31 0 0
There's so much science involved in that building its creepy lol.
9. _Bone_ posted on 22 Feb 2013, 18:38 0 0
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