Google Reveals Plans For 1.1M Square Foot ‘Bayview’ Office Park
Google has revealed that it is planning to construct a 1.1 million square foot campus, dubbed “Bay View,” to be located in Mountain View, but “closer to San Francisco Bay.”
Vanity Fair has just gotten a preview of a design rendering for the new 1.1-million-square-foot “Bayview” campus, designed by Seattle-based NBBJ. This, however, would mark a brand-new, designed for Google office park, unlike the buildings Google currently inhabits. “We’ve been the world’s best hermit crabs: we’ve found other people’s shells, and we’ve improved them,” said David Radcliffe, a civil engineer who oversees Google’s real estate.
As shown above, the upcoming campus will consist of nine different structures, all looking like “bent rectangles.” Radcliffe tells VF that ”no employee in the 1.1-million-square-foot complex will be more than a two-and-a-half-minute walk from any other.”
It’s probably too early to read too much into this one render, but we’ll be watching to see how Google’s new office builds — but in California and in London — develop in the next few years. When asked about Bayview, which sources say will augment and not replace the current Mountain View campus, a Google spokesperson told us that “We are beginning construction on our new Bayview Campus, which is a key to our growth and another sign of our commitment to the area. As this project progresses, we’ll continue to work closely with NASA, the community and the City of Mountain View.”
Source: Vanity Fair