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Googleplex

January 01, 1970

This article is about the headquarters of Google. For the large number, see Googolplex. For the abandoned Google initiative, see Plex (Google).

The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc. It is located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California.

Googleplex
Aerial view of the main Google Campus in Mountain View, CA.
BuiltJuly 2004; 19 years ago (2004-07)
LocationMountain View, California, United States
Coordinates37°25′19″N 122°05′02″W / 37.422°N 122.084°W / 37.422; -122.084
Address1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

The original complex, with 2 million square feet (190,000 square meters) of office space, is the company's second largest square footage assemblage of Google buildings, after Google's 111 Eighth Avenue building in New York City, which the company bought in 2010.

"Googleplex" is a portmanteau of Google and complex (meaning a complex of buildings) and a reference to googolplex, the name given to the large number 1010100, or 10googol.

Facilities and history edit

 
The south side of the Googleplex was visible c. 2006, and was blocked one year later by a new line of shade trees.
 
Former entrance to the lobby of Building 40

The original campus edit

SGI campus edit

The site was previously occupied by Silicon Graphics (SGI). The office space and corporate campus is located within a larger 26-acre (11-hectare) site that contains Charleston Park, a 5-acre (2-hectare) public park; improved access to Permanente Creek; and public roads that connect the corporate site to Shoreline Park and the Bay Trail. The project, launched in 1994, was built on the site of one of the few working farms in the area and was city owned at the time (identified as "Farmer's Field" in the planning documents).[1][2] It was a creative collaboration between SGI, StUDIOS Architecture, SWA Group, and the Planning and Community Development Agency of the City of Mountain View, California.[citation needed] The objective was to develop in complementary fashion the privately owned corporate headquarters and adjoining public greenspace. Key design decisions placed parking for nearly 2000 cars underground, enabling SWA to integrate the two open spaces with water features, shallow pools, fountains, pathways, and plazas. The project was completed in 1997. The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) noted that the SGI project was a significant departure from typical corporate campuses and which challenged conventional thinking about private and public space, and awarded the project the ASLA Centennial Medallion in 1999.[3]

Architecture was the architect[clarification needed] for the original SGI campus and provided both interior architecture and base building design.

Google campus edit

 
This Google campus area is down Charleston Road from the Googleplex.

The former SGI facilities were leased by Google beginning in 2003.[4] A redesign of the interiors was completed by Clive Wilkinson Architects in 2005. In June 2006, Google purchased some of Silicon Graphics's properties, including the Googleplex, for $319 million.[5][6]

Because the buildings are of relatively low height, the complex sprawls out over a large area of land. The interior of the headquarters is furnished with items like shade lamps and giant rubber balls and the lobby contains a piano and a projection of current live Google search queries. Facilities include free laundry rooms (Buildings 40, 42 & CL3), two small swimming pools, multiple sand volleyball courts, a bowling alley, massage rooms, organic gardens, and eighteen cafeterias with diverse menus. Google installed replicas of SpaceShipOne and a dinosaur skeleton.[7][8]

Since 2017, solar panels cover the rooftops of eight buildings and two solar carports, capable of producing 1.6 megawatts of electricity. At the time of installation, Google believed it to be the largest in the United States among corporations. The panels provide the power for 30% of the peak electricity demand in their solar-powered buildings.[9] Four 100kW Bloom Energy Servers were shipped to Google in July 2008, as the first customer of Bloom Energy.[10][11]

The Android lawn statues were outside of Building 44 on Charleston Road, and were relocated on the Google campus at 1981 Landings Drive. They include a giant green statue of the Android logo and additional statues to represent all the versions of the Android operating system.

Bay View addition edit

 
Google buildings are near Shoreline Park.
 
Googleplex courtyard

In 2013, construction began on a new 1.1-million-square-foot (100,000-square-meter) campus dubbed "Bay View", adjoining the original campus on 42 acres (17 ha) leased from the NASA Ames Research Center and overlooking San Francisco Bay at Moffett Federal Airfield. The estimated cost of the project was $120 million with a target opening date of 2015.[12][13][14]

NBBJ was the architect and this was the first time Google has designed its own buildings.[15]

The addition is off the northeast corner of the complex, by the Stevens Creek Nature Study Area and Shoreline Park. Before announcing the construction, Google, through its internal real estate firm, Planetary Ventures, sought permission from the City of Mountain View to build bridges over the adjacent Stevens Creek.[16] Google's 2012 year-end annual report noted it can develop only 7 acres (2.8 ha) of the 42-acre (17-hectare) site.[17]

Google planned in 2015 a 60-acre (24-hectare) addition designed by Heatherwick Studio and Bjarke Ingels in North Bayshore.[18] The site, however, was granted to LinkedIn by the city councilors and the Google project was revised in 2016, with 3 buildings to be built on 2 different sites east of Googleplex in Mountain View: one immediately next to Googleplex, and the two smaller ones a few blocks away.[19]

Google Visitor Experience edit

In September 2023, Google announced the Google Visitor Experience, a visitor center next to the Googleplex which occupies the building formerly known as Charleston East, and now known as Gradient Canopy. The visitor's center includes a Google Store, a public plaza, a café, and public art, and opened on October 12, 2023.[20]

Location edit

The Googleplex is located between Charleston Road, Amphitheatre Parkway, and Shoreline Boulevard in north Mountain View, California, close to the Shoreline Park wetlands. Employees living in San Francisco, the East Bay, or South Bay may take a free Wi-Fi-enabled Google shuttle to and from work. The shuttles are powered by a fuel blend of 95% petroleum diesel and 5% biodiesel and have the latest emissions reduction technology.[21][22]

To the north lies the Shoreline Amphitheatre and Intuit, and to the south lies Microsoft's Silicon Valley research complex, the Computer History Museum, and Century Theatres. Moffett Field is nearby to the east.

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    This restaurant is at Googleplex.
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    Bicycles are used by employees at Googleplex.[23]

Other Google Mountain View locations edit

Google in its 2012-year-end annual report said it had 3.5 million square feet of office space in Mountain View.[17]

Google has another large campus in Mountain View dubbed "The Quad" at 399 North Whisman Road about 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the Googleplex.[24]

In 2013, Google leased the entire Mayfield Mall, an enclosed shopping mall that last operated in 1984 and was leased by Hewlett-Packard from 1986 to 2002.[25]

The semi-secret Google X Lab, which is the development lab for items such as Google Glass, is located in "ordinary two-story red-brick buildings" about 1⁄2 mile (800 meters) from the Googleplex. It has a "burbling fountain out front and rows of company-issued bikes, which employees use to shuttle to the main campus."[26]

In popular culture edit

The Googleplex is featured in the 2013 film The Internship, with the Georgia Tech campus standing in as a double, because Google disallows filming on the campus grounds for privacy reasons.[27] It was the inspiration for the fictional Hooli headquarters in the HBO TV series Silicon Valley.[28]

References edit

  1. ^ Perry, Nicholas (2006). Mountain View, CA - Nicholas Perry - Google Books. Arcadia. ISBN 9780738531366. from the original on May 15, 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
  2. ^ "Error". from the original on March 30, 2014. Retrieved May 27, 2013.
  3. ^ "Medallion Sites" (PDF). American Society of Landscape Architects. (PDF) from the original on August 10, 2014. Retrieved March 1, 2015.
  4. ^ Olsen, Stefanie (July 13, 2003). "Google's movin' on up with Sujeet Kumar and Manohar Patti". CNET News.com. CNET Networks, Inc. from the original on February 5, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2007.
  5. ^ Mills, Elinor (January 19, 2006). "Google buying its Mountain View, Calif., property". CNET News.com. CNET Networks, Inc. Archived from the original on July 6, 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2007.
  6. ^ Conrad, Katherine (June 14, 2006). "Google to purchase Mountain View buildings". San Jose Mercury News. AccessMyLibrary. from the original on January 12, 2009. Retrieved November 7, 2009.
  7. ^ Weinberg, Nathan (November 8, 2007). "Yes, Google Has The Dinosaur". google.blognewschannel.com. from the original on March 30, 2014. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
  8. ^ Mohney, Chris (February 6, 2007). . Valleywag. Gawker Media. Archived from the original on September 25, 2009. Retrieved August 8, 2009.
  9. ^ "Reducing our Footprint". from the original on November 20, 2010. Retrieved September 30, 2010. In Mountain View, CA, for example, we currently have a 1.6-megawatt solar power system that generates 30% of the peak power necessary to fuel the buildings on which they are located.
  10. ^ "NASA Technology Comes to Earth | Bloom Energy". from the original on February 27, 2010. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  11. ^ "Bloom Energy Revealed on 60 Minutes! : Greentech Media". from the original on February 25, 2010. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  12. ^ "Google announce lease at Ames Research Center" (PDF). www.nasa.gov. NASA. June 2008. (PDF) from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
  13. ^ Letzing, John (February 22, 2013). "Google Starting Construction on New Campus - WSJ.com". Online.wsj.com. from the original on April 6, 2015. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  14. ^ Goldberger, Paul (February 22, 2013). "Exclusive Preview: Google's New Built-from-Scratch Googleplex". Vanity Fair. from the original on May 30, 2013. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  15. ^ Russell, James S. (April 24, 2013). "Google's New Campus Has Light, Fresh Air, Low Power Use". Bloomberg. from the original on May 31, 2013. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  16. ^ "Error". from the original on March 30, 2014. Retrieved May 26, 2013.
  17. ^ a b "Form 10-K". Sec.gov. from the original on May 8, 2013. Retrieved May 26, 2013.
  18. ^ Stone, Brad (May 7, 2015). "Big and Weird: The Architectural Genius of Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick". Bloomberg. from the original on November 16, 2017. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  19. ^ Cogley, Bridget (August 27, 2019). "Roof completes on Heatherwick and BIG's Google HQ". dezeen. from the original on December 18, 2020. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  20. ^ Li, Abner (September 7, 2023). "'Google Visitor Experience' opening in Mountain View with Store, cafe, and more". 9to5Google. from the original on September 8, 2023. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
  21. ^ Spivack, Cari (September 13, 2004). "Worth the drive". Official Google Blog. Google, Inc. from the original on November 13, 2006. Retrieved January 4, 2007.
  22. ^ "Campus operations -- A closer look". Google, Inc. from the original on June 25, 2012. Retrieved June 15, 2012.
  23. ^ Kelly, Caitlin (April 28, 2012). "Google Course Asks Employees to Take a Deep Breath". The New York Times. from the original on February 18, 2017. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  24. ^ O'Dell, Jolie (May 17, 2011). "Google To Open New Campus in Mountain View". Mashable.com. from the original on July 23, 2013. Retrieved May 26, 2013.
  25. ^ "Google to Rent Former Mall in Largest Silicon Valley Deal". Bloomberg. September 11, 2013. from the original on September 14, 2015. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
  26. ^ Stone, Brad (May 22, 2013). . Businessweek. Archived from the original on May 23, 2013. Retrieved May 26, 2013.
  27. ^ Jessica Guynn and Dawn C. Chmielewski (May 25, 2013). "The Internship, now starring ... Google". Los Angeles Times. from the original on April 17, 2015. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  28. ^ Donato-Weinstein, Nathan (April 17, 2014). "How HBO captured the look of 'Silicon Valley' tech office spaces". Silicon Valley Business Journal. from the original on April 13, 2015. Retrieved April 5, 2015.

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This article is about the headquarters of Google For the large number see Googolplex For the abandoned Google initiative see Plex Google The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc It is located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View California GoogleplexAerial view of the main Google Campus in Mountain View CA BuiltJuly 2004 19 years ago 2004 07 LocationMountain View California United StatesCoordinates37 25 19 N 122 05 02 W 37 422 N 122 084 W 37 422 122 084Address1600 Amphitheatre ParkwayMountain View CA 94043 The original complex with 2 million square feet 190 000 square meters of office space is the company s second largest square footage assemblage of Google buildings after Google s 111 Eighth Avenue building in New York City which the company bought in 2010 Googleplex is a portmanteau of Google and complex meaning a complex of buildings and a reference to googolplex the name given to the large number 1010100 or 10googol Contents 1 Facilities and history 1 1 The original campus 1 1 1 SGI campus 1 1 2 Google campus 1 2 Bay View addition 1 3 Google Visitor Experience 2 Location 3 Other Google Mountain View locations 4 In popular culture 5 References 6 External linksFacilities and history edit nbsp The south side of the Googleplex was visible c 2006 and was blocked one year later by a new line of shade trees nbsp Former entrance to the lobby of Building 40 The original campus edit SGI campus edit The site was previously occupied by Silicon Graphics SGI The office space and corporate campus is located within a larger 26 acre 11 hectare site that contains Charleston Park a 5 acre 2 hectare public park improved access to Permanente Creek and public roads that connect the corporate site to Shoreline Park and the Bay Trail The project launched in 1994 was built on the site of one of the few working farms in the area and was city owned at the time identified as Farmer s Field in the planning documents 1 2 It was a creative collaboration between SGI StUDIOS Architecture SWA Group and the Planning and Community Development Agency of the City of Mountain View California citation needed The objective was to develop in complementary fashion the privately owned corporate headquarters and adjoining public greenspace Key design decisions placed parking for nearly 2000 cars underground enabling SWA to integrate the two open spaces with water features shallow pools fountains pathways and plazas The project was completed in 1997 The American Society of Landscape Architects ASLA noted that the SGI project was a significant departure from typical corporate campuses and which challenged conventional thinking about private and public space and awarded the project the ASLA Centennial Medallion in 1999 3 Architecture was the architect clarification needed for the original SGI campus and provided both interior architecture and base building design Google campus edit nbsp This Google campus area is down Charleston Road from the Googleplex The former SGI facilities were leased by Google beginning in 2003 4 A redesign of the interiors was completed by Clive Wilkinson Architects in 2005 In June 2006 Google purchased some of Silicon Graphics s properties including the Googleplex for 319 million 5 6 Because the buildings are of relatively low height the complex sprawls out over a large area of land The interior of the headquarters is furnished with items like shade lamps and giant rubber balls and the lobby contains a piano and a projection of current live Google search queries Facilities include free laundry rooms Buildings 40 42 amp CL3 two small swimming pools multiple sand volleyball courts a bowling alley massage rooms organic gardens and eighteen cafeterias with diverse menus Google installed replicas of SpaceShipOne and a dinosaur skeleton 7 8 Since 2017 solar panels cover the rooftops of eight buildings and two solar carports capable of producing 1 6 megawatts of electricity At the time of installation Google believed it to be the largest in the United States among corporations The panels provide the power for 30 of the peak electricity demand in their solar powered buildings 9 Four 100kW Bloom Energy Servers were shipped to Google in July 2008 as the first customer of Bloom Energy 10 11 The Android lawn statues were outside of Building 44 on Charleston Road and were relocated on the Google campus at 1981 Landings Drive They include a giant green statue of the Android logo and additional statues to represent all the versions of the Android operating system Bay View addition edit nbsp Google buildings are near Shoreline Park nbsp Googleplex courtyard In 2013 construction began on a new 1 1 million square foot 100 000 square meter campus dubbed Bay View adjoining the original campus on 42 acres 17 ha leased from the NASA Ames Research Center and overlooking San Francisco Bay at Moffett Federal Airfield The estimated cost of the project was 120 million with a target opening date of 2015 12 13 14 NBBJ was the architect and this was the first time Google has designed its own buildings 15 The addition is off the northeast corner of the complex by the Stevens Creek Nature Study Area and Shoreline Park Before announcing the construction Google through its internal real estate firm Planetary Ventures sought permission from the City of Mountain View to build bridges over the adjacent Stevens Creek 16 Google s 2012 year end annual report noted it can develop only 7 acres 2 8 ha of the 42 acre 17 hectare site 17 Google planned in 2015 a 60 acre 24 hectare addition designed by Heatherwick Studio and Bjarke Ingels in North Bayshore 18 The site however was granted to LinkedIn by the city councilors and the Google project was revised in 2016 with 3 buildings to be built on 2 different sites east of Googleplex in Mountain View one immediately next to Googleplex and the two smaller ones a few blocks away 19 Google Visitor Experience edit In September 2023 Google announced the Google Visitor Experience a visitor center next to the Googleplex which occupies the building formerly known as Charleston East and now known as Gradient Canopy The visitor s center includes a Google Store a public plaza a cafe and public art and opened on October 12 2023 20 Location editThe Googleplex is located between Charleston Road Amphitheatre Parkway and Shoreline Boulevard in north Mountain View California close to the Shoreline Park wetlands Employees living in San Francisco the East Bay or South Bay may take a free Wi Fi enabled Google shuttle to and from work The shuttles are powered by a fuel blend of 95 petroleum diesel and 5 biodiesel and have the latest emissions reduction technology 21 22 To the north lies the Shoreline Amphitheatre and Intuit and to the south lies Microsoft s Silicon Valley research complex the Computer History Museum and Century Theatres Moffett Field is nearby to the east nbsp This restaurant is at Googleplex nbsp Bicycles are used by employees at Googleplex 23 Other Google Mountain View locations editGoogle in its 2012 year end annual report said it had 3 5 million square feet of office space in Mountain View 17 Google has another large campus in Mountain View dubbed The Quad at 399 North Whisman Road about 3 miles 5 kilometers from the Googleplex 24 In 2013 Google leased the entire Mayfield Mall an enclosed shopping mall that last operated in 1984 and was leased by Hewlett Packard from 1986 to 2002 25 The semi secret Google X Lab which is the development lab for items such as Google Glass is located in ordinary two story red brick buildings about 1 2 mile 800 meters from the Googleplex It has a burbling fountain out front and rows of company issued bikes which employees use to shuttle to the main campus 26 In popular culture editThe Googleplex is featured in the 2013 film The Internship with the Georgia Tech campus standing in as a double because Google disallows filming on the campus grounds for privacy reasons 27 It was the inspiration for the fictional Hooli headquarters in the HBO TV series Silicon Valley 28 References edit Perry Nicholas 2006 Mountain View CA Nicholas Perry Google Books Arcadia ISBN 9780738531366 Archived from the original on May 15 2016 Retrieved June 15 2013 Error Archived from the original on March 30 2014 Retrieved May 27 2013 Medallion Sites PDF American Society of Landscape Architects Archived PDF from the original on August 10 2014 Retrieved March 1 2015 Olsen Stefanie July 13 2003 Google s movin on up with Sujeet Kumar and Manohar Patti CNET News com CNET Networks Inc Archived from the original on February 5 2021 Retrieved January 4 2007 Mills Elinor January 19 2006 Google buying its Mountain View Calif property CNET News com CNET Networks Inc Archived from the original on July 6 2014 Retrieved January 4 2007 Conrad Katherine June 14 2006 Google to purchase Mountain View buildings San Jose Mercury News AccessMyLibrary Archived from the original on January 12 2009 Retrieved November 7 2009 Weinberg Nathan November 8 2007 Yes Google Has The Dinosaur google blognewschannel com Archived from the original on March 30 2014 Retrieved January 23 2013 Mohney Chris February 6 2007 25 things to see at the Googleplex before you die Valleywag Gawker Media Archived from the original on September 25 2009 Retrieved August 8 2009 Reducing our Footprint Archived from the original on November 20 2010 Retrieved September 30 2010 In Mountain View CA for example we currently have a 1 6 megawatt solar power system that generates 30 of the peak power necessary to fuel the buildings on which they are located NASA Technology Comes to Earth Bloom Energy Archived from the original on February 27 2010 Retrieved February 25 2010 Bloom Energy Revealed on 60 Minutes Greentech Media Archived from the original on February 25 2010 Retrieved February 25 2010 Google announce lease at Ames Research Center PDF www nasa gov NASA June 2008 Archived PDF from the original on March 4 2016 Retrieved December 28 2015 Letzing John February 22 2013 Google Starting Construction on New Campus WSJ com Online wsj com Archived from the original on April 6 2015 Retrieved May 24 2013 Goldberger Paul February 22 2013 Exclusive Preview Google s New Built from Scratch Googleplex Vanity Fair Archived from the original on May 30 2013 Retrieved May 24 2013 Russell James S April 24 2013 Google s New Campus Has Light Fresh Air Low Power Use Bloomberg Archived from the original on May 31 2013 Retrieved May 24 2013 Error Archived from the original on March 30 2014 Retrieved May 26 2013 a b Form 10 K Sec gov Archived from the original on May 8 2013 Retrieved May 26 2013 Stone Brad May 7 2015 Big and Weird The Architectural Genius of Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick Bloomberg Archived from the original on November 16 2017 Retrieved March 7 2017 Cogley Bridget August 27 2019 Roof completes on Heatherwick and BIG s Google HQ dezeen Archived from the original on December 18 2020 Retrieved January 9 2021 Li Abner September 7 2023 Google Visitor Experience opening in Mountain View with Store cafe and more 9to5Google Archived from the original on September 8 2023 Retrieved September 8 2023 Spivack Cari September 13 2004 Worth the drive Official Google Blog Google Inc Archived from the original on November 13 2006 Retrieved January 4 2007 Campus operations A closer look Google Inc Archived from the original on June 25 2012 Retrieved June 15 2012 Kelly Caitlin April 28 2012 Google Course Asks Employees to Take a Deep Breath The New York Times Archived from the original on February 18 2017 Retrieved February 27 2017 O Dell Jolie May 17 2011 Google To Open New Campus in Mountain View Mashable com Archived from the original on July 23 2013 Retrieved May 26 2013 Google to Rent Former Mall in Largest Silicon Valley Deal Bloomberg September 11 2013 Archived from the original on September 14 2015 Retrieved October 1 2015 Stone Brad May 22 2013 Inside Google s Secret Lab Businessweek Archived from the original on May 23 2013 Retrieved May 26 2013 Jessica Guynn and Dawn C Chmielewski May 25 2013 The Internship now starring Google Los Angeles Times Archived from the original on April 17 2015 Retrieved April 5 2015 Donato Weinstein Nathan April 17 2014 How HBO captured the look of Silicon Valley tech office spaces Silicon Valley Business Journal Archived from the original on April 13 2015 Retrieved April 5 2015 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Googleplex Life in the Googleplex 2006 Photo Essay from Time magazine Googleplex East Inside Google s New York City Headquarters Archived February 19 2007 at the Wayback Machine from Information Week A Video Tour of Googleplex on YouTube Biking around Googleplex on Kinomap Andrew Norman Wilson s Viral Video Workers Leaving the Googleplex Portals nbsp Internet nbsp San Francisco Bay Area nbsp 1990s Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Googleplex amp oldid 1223120704 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