Google's "Bayview" campus, the planned expansion of the Googleplex, the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters.
(Credit: NBBJ)
Not to be outdone by Apple and its upcoming spaceship HQ, or Facebook and its future complex designed by starchitect Frank Gehry, Google is planning a massive expansion to the Googleplex. And in the company's algorithmic world, form follows data.
The 42-acre expansion was reportedly designed by architecture firm NBBJ using mountains of info gathered and quantified by Google's real estate team and involving everything from where the sun is at different times of day to which way the wind blows to the importance of placing one work group near another to, quite simply, what sort of workspace employees prefer.
"Bayview," as the expansion will be called, is a collection of vaguely boomerang-shaped buildings that are connected by bridges. Vanity Fair quotes David Radcliffe, a civil engineer who oversees Google's real estate, as saying that the design is meant to maximize "casual coll... [Read more]
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