The Googleplex is the headquarters complex of Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc., located at 1600 Amphitheater Parkway in Mountain View, California, United States, near the Silicon Valley capital of San Jose.
The original compound, with 2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m 2 ) of office space, is the second largest square footage of Google building companies, after the 111th Eighth Avenue Google building in New York City, which was a company purchased on in 2010. After 1,100,000 square feet (100,000 m 2 ) the addition of Bay View began online in 2015, the Googleplex became the largest collection of Google buildings with an area of ​​3,100,000 square feet (290,000 m 2 ) space.
"Googleplex" is a portmanteau of Google and complex (which means building complex) and references to googolplex , the name given for big number 10 (10 100 ) , or 10 googol .
Video Googleplex
Facilities and history
Original Campus
SGI Campus
This site was previously occupied by Silicon Graphics (SGI). The office space and corporate campus are located within an area of ​​26 acres (110,000 m 2 ) containing Charleston Park, a 5-acre (20,000m 2 ) public park; increased access to Permanente Creek; and a public road connecting the company's site to Shoreline Park and the Bay Trail. The project, launched in 1994, was built at the site of one of several farms working in the area and belonged to the city at the time (identified as "Farmers Field" in the planning document). This is a creative collaboration between SGI, STUDIOS Architecture, SWA Group, and City of Mountain View Community Planning and Development Agency. The goal is to develop complementarily with privately owned offices and adjoining public spaces. The main design decision puts parking for nearly 2,000 cars underground, allowing SWA to integrate two open spaces with water features, shallow pools, fountains, paths, and plazas. The project was completed in 1997. ASLA notes that the SGI project is a significant departure from distinctive corporate campuses, challenging conventional thinking about private and public spaces and awarding the ASLA Centennial Medal project in 1999.
STUDIOS Architecture is the architect for the original SGI campus, and provides interior architecture and basic building design.
Google campus
The SGI facility was previously leased by Google starting in 2003. The interior redesign was completed by Clive Wilkinson Architects in 2005. In June 2006, Google purchased several Silicon Graphics properties, including the Googleplex, for $ 319 million.
Because the building has a relatively low height, the complex is spread over a large area. The inside of the headquarters is equipped with items such as shade lamps and giant rubber balls. The lobby contains the piano and projection of Google's direct search query right now. Facilities include a free laundry room (Building 40, 42 & amp; CL3), two small swimming pools, several sand volleyball courts, and eighteen cafeterias with diverse menus. Google also installed a replica of SpaceShipOne and dinosaur skeletons.
Since 2007 the site has featured a series of solar panels covering eight roof buildings and two solar carports, and is capable of generating 1.6 megawatts of electricity. At the time of installation Google believed it to be the largest in the United States among companies. The panels provide the required power for 30% of peak electrical demand in their solar-powered buildings.
Four 100kW Bloom Energy Servers were sent to Google in July 2008, making Google the first customer of Bloom Energy.
Android grass statue (formerly outside Building 44 on Charleston Road), is now located on the Google campus at Landings Drive 1981 (on 37.4184135 Â ° N 122.0879531Ã, Â ° W / 37.4184135; -122.0879531 ), and includes a giant green statue of the Android logo and additional statues to represent all versions of the Android operating system. addition of Bay View
In 2013 construction begins on a new 1.1-million-square-foot campus nicknamed "Bay View" adjacent to the original 42-acre campus hired from the NASA Ames Research Center and overlooking San Francisco Bay at Moffett Federal Airfield. The estimated cost of the project is $ 120 million with a target date of opening 2015.
NBBJ is an architect and this is the first time Google has designed its own building instead of moving to a building occupied by the previous business.
This addition is in the northeast corner of the complex, by Stevens Creek Nature Study Area/Shoreline Park. Before announcing the construction, Google, through its real estate company, Planetary Ventures, requested permission from the city of Mountain View to build a bridge over nearby Stevens Creek. The final year-end 2012 report Google noted it can develop just 7 hectares of the 42-acre site.
Google is planning an additional 60-acre designed by Bjarke Ingels in North Bayshore.
Maps Googleplex
Location
The Googleplex is located between Charleston Road, Amphitheater Parkway, and Shoreline Boulevard in northern Mountain View, California close to the Shoreline Park wetlands. Employees living in San Francisco, East Bay or South Bay can use the free Google Wi-Fi-enabled shuttle to and from work. The space shuttle is powered by a mixture of 95% diesel fuel and 5% biodiesel, and has the latest emission reduction technology.
To the north is the Shoreline and Intuit Amphitheater, and to the south is the Microsoft Corporation's Silicon Valley research compound, the Computer History Museum, and the Century Theater. Moffett Field is located on the east.
More Google Mountain View locations
Google in its annual report end of 2012 says it has 3.5 million square feet of office space in Mountain View.
Google has another major campus in Mountain View dubbed "The Quad" at 399 N Whisman Road about 3 miles from the Googleplex.
In 2013, Google rented out all of Mayfield Mall, a closed shopping mall that last operated in 1984 and was hired by Hewlett-Packard from 1986 to 2002.
In addition, the secret of Google X Lab, which is a development lab for items like Google Glass, is located in a "two-story red brick building" about half a mile from the Googleplex. It has a "water fountain that floods in front and a row of bikes issued by the company, which employees use to drive to the main campus."
In popular culture
The Googleplex is featured in the 2013 movie The Internships , with the Georgia Tech campus standing as a double. It's also an inspiration for Hooli's fictitious Hooli headquarters in the HBO TV series Silicon Valley .
See also
- Android grass statue
- Google Planet (book)
- In Plex (book)
- Internships (2013 movie)
References
External links
- Life on the Googleplex 2006 Essay Photo from Time magazine
- Googleplex East: Inside the New York City Headquarters, from Information Week
- Googleplex Video Tour on YouTube
- Bike around Googleplex on Kinomap
- Viral Video "Norman Walk" from Richard Norman Wilson Leaving Googleplex "
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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