Pretty sweet looking campus.
The highlights:
- 4,000 employees
- First time Google has developed its own campus
- 1.1M sq ft over two office buildings
- 1,000 person events center
- Four-building lodging complex with 220 rooms to accommodate short-term stays for employees
- Designed by world-renowned architects Bjarke Ingels Group and Heatherwick Studio
- The insides of the buildings feature a combination of wide-open spaces with 30 courtyards or atriums, as well as small rooms for break out sessions
- Allows plentiful natural light into the buildings
- Uses about 50,000 solar panels to resemble dragon scales on its canopy rooftop, with geothermal piles beneath the office complex to create an energy arrangement that can cool the vast structure in hot weather and heat it during cold weather
- Local residents will also be able to benefit from the new Bay View campus in multiple ways. Among them: public access to expanded trails with panoramic views of the Bay, improved bike connections to the Stevens Creek and Bay trails
- The campus also includes 17.3 acres of high-value natural areas, including wet meadows, woodlands, and marshes, that contribute to Google’s broader efforts to reestablish missing essential habitats in the Bay Area.
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2022/0...-estate-covid/