Googleplex

The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters of the U.S. company Google Inc. and is located in Mountain View, California. The original plant with approximately 185.806m2 is geographically the second largest building of Google (# 1 is 269 418 m2 building 111 Eighth Avenue in New York City, bought by Google in 2010 ). Once the 102 193 m2 cultivation is completed, it is the largest building of Google with 287 999 m2. The term Googleplex is both a portmanteau of Google and complex, as well as an allusion to googolplex, the name given to the number 10googol ( 1010100 ). Originally the word of Edward Kasner and James Newman in 1940 was defined in the book, " Mathematics and the imagination". It was also used in the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in 1979 and called there the Googleplex Star Thinker.

Establishment and history

Original Campus

SGI Campus

The four core buildings, totaling 47 038 m2 in size, were originally built and used by Silicon Graphics. The offices and the campus take a 110,000 m2, of which 20,000 m2 of publicly accessible Charleston Park ( 20,000 m2) which abuts a 21.4 km long river. The project, which was launched in 1994 to life, built on the site of a labor camp for prisoners and was at the time still the city ( in the planning documents as " Farmers Field " / " arable land " identified) and was born from the collaboration between SGI, SWA Group of San Francisco, Sausalito and the Planning and Community Development Agency of the city of Mountain View. The aim was to develop cooperation in a lying privately owned corporate headquarters with adjacent public green space. The design plans for the site looked before an underground parking for 2000 cars, so that SWA was able to integrate the two free surfaces with water features, shallow ponds, fountains, paths, squares and a gigantic statue of a dinosaur. In 1997, the project was completed. The American Society of Landscape Architects in 1999 reported then that the SGI project was a significant departure from typical corporate campuses, and a challenge to conventional thinking about private and public space.

Studios Architecture was to be responsible the executive architects for the original SGI campus under the condition of both the interior design as well as for the building design.

Google Campus

As of 2003, the complex was rented by Google, in 2005, a reconstruction of the interior of Clive Wilkinson Architects was completed in June 2006, Google bought the building from four different real estate firms for 319 million U.S. dollars. Because the buildings are all pretty flat they take up much space in claim. The interior of the headquarters is equipped with items such as lampshades and rubber balls. The lobby has a piano and a projection of current live Google search queries. The facilities include a sports hall (Building 40), free laundry ( Buildings 40, 42, and CL3 ), two small swimming pools, a beach volleyball court and eighteen cafeterias with different selection. Google has also set up replicas of SpaceShipOne and a dinosaur skeleton. From late 2006 to early 2007, the company has installed a number of solar modules, which are able to generate about 1.6 megawatts of electricity. At that time it was the largest private installation of the United States. About 30 percent of the power of the Googleplex come from this project, the rest is purchased from other suppliers. One third of the modules was mounted on the decks of the parking lots, the other on roofs of the plant. The solar panel project was put into operation on June 18, 2007. On 21 June 2007, Google had already installed 90 percent of the 9,212 modules.

Four strong 100kW Bloom Energy Servers were shipped in July 2008 to Google so that Google was the first customer of Bloom Energy.

Prior to Building 44 on the Google campus is a giant green Android mascot, with the official name " Bugdroid ". The other Android versions bear the names of sweets and are also shown in the garden Android.

Bay View cultivation

In 2013 the construction of a new 102 193 m2 of office began called " Bay View " next to the original campus on a 17 acre area, hired by NASA Ames Research Center and overlooking the bay of San Francisco, near Moffett Federal Airfield. The estimated cost of the project amounts to 120 million dollars with the target opening date of 2015.

NBBJ is the architectural firm that it Google has allowed for the first time its own building to design, rather than move to a building of the former company.

The complex is located at the northeast corner of the facility at the Stevens Creek Nature Area / Shoreline Park. Before the announcement of the construction of the system Google has sought in Mountain View build permission for a bridge over the Stevens Creek. Google has had to determine the year-end report 2012 that they only have the budget for a 3 acre area, instead of the 17 acres.

Location

The Googleplex is located near the Shoreline Amphitheatre in the north, Intuit to the northwest and the research complex of Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation and the Computer History Museum in the south. It is located between Charleston Road, Amphitheatre Parkway and Shore Ling Boulevard in the north of Mountain View, California close to the Shoreline Park wetlands. Employees who live in the East Bay or South Bay in San Francisco can take a free WiFi -enabled Google shuttle to and from work. The shuttle buses will be powered by a fuel mixture of 95 % petroleum diesel and 5% biodiesel and have the latest technology to reduce emissions.

Other Google Mountain View locations

Google has said in year-end report 2012, it has 32.5 acres of office space in Mountain View.

Google has taken another major campus in Mountain View called "The Quad" about 5 miles from the Googleplex away at 399 N WhismanRoad.

In addition, there is the secret Google X Lab, which is the development laboratory for items such as the Google Glass. The building is a normal two-story red brick house about half a mile away from the Googleplex. It has fountains in front of the door and rows of, provided by the company bicycles, which can use the employee to go to the main campus.