The plastic-wrap-overtop-existing-structures look seems like overkill of glass. If the road noise is such an issue, innovative acoustical engineering (smart noise cancelling sensors/radiators) could be used in the outside areas open to your envy-worthy climate. In this engineered natural environment, you could hear crickets if you wanted. In a climate that is "weather best by government test", why seal the building within a glass membrane? Other observations: 1. Looking at the renders -- Will anyone work there? 2. Are you really saying that this is going to be treated like public space, with the general public wandering through? 3.Googlers spend most of their time in front of a screen -- The glare on your computer screen is a problem when sitting in a greenhouse, no?
I agree with Brent. In 5:05 they say "Google (...) can't be a fortress that shuts away neighbors/nature...", but that 's exactly what it feels with the plastic-wrap-overtop-existing-structures. So unnatural. Like the Google buses: they're inside while we're outside.
Google gets hundreds of visitors coming to its main campus every day. Just walking around taking pictures. Given the design shows people biking in the "glass tents" I assume its completely open on the sides with the cover protecting from rain and cutting down the light. The Denver and Beijing airports, which I like, have a bit of the feel but they have to be sealed. Northern California weather would need only cooling.
I've lived in mountain view since 1990 and I find it interesting that Google is talking about how to work with the environment and have the architecture look like its blended in with nature. but in the shoreline area, mountain view is the one that has been restoring that area and making it nice and then Google comes along and destroys this 1 acre of preserved land for a personal outdoor workout park that is closed to the public. It's an eye sore. The entire shoreline area has taken around 15yrs to restore and it seems like as long as they get what they want, fuck everyone who also lives in the area.
Bo Tian That's bull, I jog and workout there every other day, and the only time its open is when people leave the door up, So its really a hit or miss. yeah you get some people playing soccer or working out. But its not open as much as you think. But the bigger issues is that its Public land being used for private use, and your argument is "Its open to the public on weekends" so its closed over 70% of the time. You know the area that mountain view residents fought so hard to clean all of shoreline park up ( because it used to be a land fill area) and now that we have clean the land we can only used that area for less then 30% of the time. Well hot dam. Thank god there is a video showing us how to work with the environment and that we should share, But as long as we Google get 1st dibs on everything you can have whatever is left over.
When i read "The Circle" i were allways imagining something like this you are now working on. I really support you and the Ideas and visions you have and realized and will realize in the futer are allways a piece of the future brought to the humankind! Thank you for being what you are Google!
Thank you, Google, for working for true innovation that expresses transparency, innovation, and public space, and doing for the real world what you're doing for digital.
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Tim Fain is playing violin on this!! He played in 12 Years a Slave and on-camera in Black Swan, and he performs a lot with Philip Glass too. Tim co-composed the music with Will Bates (Fall on Your Sword) Jessica Brillhart directed
You Guys are Changing the way we think and live...and taking it to a whole new level...i think google is not just a Company but an Institution...kudos to Google
The beauty of the overall concept eludes me: Yes, I get the idea that the natural environment is being pushed aside now, with the infrastructure... roads, parking lots, and so on. And the planners rightly see the problems with treating trees as accessories, and so on. But then the solution to encapsulate nature under glass makes little sense to me. Rather than being an open and expansive project working with nature, this idea of putting nature under a dome... isolating it... seems counter-productive to the goal of embracing it. It honestly evokes a snow globe to me. The design is beautiful, I agree.... but as a sculpture, not as a living, working environment. And why the need anyway? Doesn't the area have one of the nicest climates in the world? Why shut that out under an artificial canopy? And then what? Put in artificial water sources to replace the rain you have now shut out? And what about cooling this gigantic, fake environment? Won't this entail a gigantic energy consumption? The most brilliant architectural solutions often push the envelope of design, as this does; but they must also solve old problems in clever ways. This does not... it just puts nature... and Google's staff for that matter... into a giant fake world. I wouldn't want to work in that thing... I'd rather be able to go out for lunch, under a real sky, with real trees and a real fresh breeze.
This has not only restored my faith in Google, but it gives me a new found faith in the world. The fact that you're doing this gives me hope for the world. Everything is turning to mass production and its killing the earth, but the fact that you men and women down at Google can change the world with this project. Not mass production but integration with the environment, its truly a beautiful and very welcome sight.
This is right next to my house and I can say for sure they cranked up the saturation and put grass in places there isnt any, but saying that this looks pretty damn awesome.
The words are really good. Sometimes we forget the most simple that is to explain our ideas to change obsolete mentalities to achieve nature cities. I really believe in the power of words and the best visualization. I love all Thomas Heatherwick's works. But . . I missed the water management and nature dynamics. The most important . Thanks for share.
Simply brilliant. Google has the right idea here, to bring back everything that we slowly push away such as wildlife and even social interaction. Good work!! It's a dream of mine to create for Google. To make a difference in the world through a company with the right mindset.
I always admired companies like Google, Microsoft etc. but more I work and more skilful I get as developer, less desire I have to work for such companies. Isn't it nicer to create your own startup and challenge some of these big guys, innovate or creating something on your own. I'm sure that working for Google is awesome but how unique do you feel as individual there ? I think the most fun part of any company (including what Google when they started) is the growth, innovation and devotion phase. I feel that there's almost no fun when you get so big.
You really inspired me with your vision. I accompany international students, executives and wish I knew how I can tour inside there and present an explanation of this project. Amazing piece of architecture and do futuristic !
I have always wanted to work for Google. It was my dream but I realized that I am more qualified to help kids with the help of Google. It is nice to see a company that understands people.
I've also heard it will have an innovative solution to homelessness. Surrounding cameras will monitor the area, when it detects you are homeless, a trap door will open and will connect you to an underground water slide that will excrete you into the ocean.
Tent caterpillars. Out here in the desert we have water issues. Those greenhouse-like coverings is something we could use for our parks. But not webs. And definitely not so that birds could harm themselves flying into. They have to be sort of sealed to keep transpiration from escaping. Water quality is a problem for us in the deserts. Distilling (I believe) is something that should be employed and use that as a sort of recharge in parks, school yards, institutional landscaping, etc.. If sealed, rainwater harvesting could also occur. Wind steals a lot of moisture . . . from the plants and from the ground. Sunbelt states that insist on border walls and can't seem to keep their pants on ought to consider that there is much that needs to happen for survival through time. Time is a long time.
The world will be a better place because of collaborations [ Google, BIG and Heatherwick ] where brilliant minds and extraordinary imagination collide creating environments for society to thrive.
I really hope this gets built. It is inspiring. My only comment is that for Phase II, PLEASE add some housing! Tech companies need to get serious about driving San Mateo and Santa Clara counties to add housing density to match the increasing office space they are building. This neighborhood's zoning is about to be opened up and Google should be on top of that. Look at all the parking lots in those arial shots of North Bayshore. There is so much room for housing if we put that underground.
OK, so Tim Fain co wrote and performed on the score...amazing. Do I sense some sort of parallel with him and Will Bates working together on the music, and Heatherwick and Bjarke Ingels working together on the architecture??
If you build yourself a greenhouse environment, make sure you have enough air circulation or its going to be extremely hot. Wind and a tornado situation would compromise this type of roof. It would have to be structurally strong. I work in the greenhouse environment and the substrate only lasts for so many years it has to be replaced and can be very costly.
Well, Google is doing a great job. But, even though Google says we are open, and their motto says 'Don't be Evil', how much sure are we about that. I feel that, in fact, Google should consider being more contactable. Many of my friends were angry to Google for removing their Adsense without any valid reason. I lost my adsense for putting 'More' as the ad title, and I regret it. But, I still am a fan a Google . The company, should not be a controller of people, like many, but instead, should take user suggestions. There is really no way for a person to suggest anything to Google. And, I think Google should start Educational services online. Google should stand to their motto. Let us hope that the new campus will soon come.
As an architect I believe that large scale projects should indeed offer something back to the people and the planet. Companies like Google and great architectural studios like BIG and Heatherwick have the power to make a difference if they are willing to walk the whole way. I wish they do. The thing that bothers me at this stage is the attempt to do so, but plastic-wrapping the units in the process.
While I understand these designs are still in their infancy, I would appreciate more insight into the design process, and what problems the architectural decisions aim to solve. For example, why are there dome-shaped enclosures attached to groups of buildings? What will be involved in maintenance of that architecture? If parking lots will be turned into "greenhouses", then how are vehicles to navigate around the "empty fields or nature"? Moreover, how do these decisions aim to enhance work throughput, what's the time-frame for such a reconstruction, and what effects might that have on the employees currently working on the campus?
Questions. 1. The canopy seems highly reflective. Are you accounting for blinding reflections with neighbors, not only neighboring buildings but road and foot traffic? 2. The project is aiming to rejuvenate waterways and offer space for wild ecosystems. Will this take into account natural migratory paths through Google's yard? Or will the design of the yard influence migratory patterns?
If there isn't a residential component to this it will be worse than Santana Row. Also, free advice, when I look out the window of my gym in downtown SF (an actual city) it always amazes me how many contractor's trucks are parked outside. If this is to be a living structure don't forget the contractors.
Can't believe Mountain View turned this down for a bunch of LinkedIn office buildings. Thanks so much for trying to do something amazing and transformative for the Mountain View community.
The green house idea is great, you could have offices open to nature. Imagine the productivity of someone whose able to have all the technology they need but work in a natural environment too. Also the buildings would last longer because they'd be out of the elements.
If coding with nature was so productive, don't you think the best programmers would be doing so in the park, or on the side of a mountain? The fact is the best work comes from closed spaces where you don't have to worry about the outside world.
There's something that highly interests me. How does the glass membrane dome effect acoustics? i'm a big (huuh) fan of BIG but so far I have the feeling this is another architecture project that undermines the importance and effect of conscious sonic building (a lá the glass cafés that capture our attention by eye sight but are awful to converse in).
This commitment by Google is truly Salubrious! My hope is they ripple into a wave that changes human interaction with business and the environment! I live in Atlanta, Georgia and would love to see this level of conscious development in people and the places they work.
Amazing! Lets build cities like this, just imagine the savings on construction time and energy usage. Plus just pure happiness of the people that will work in this environment.
"Turn the dial up on nature" has to be one of the most unintentionally ironic linguistic juxtapositions I've heard in a while. "More nature: 1. More parking lots: 0."
I congratulate Google. The project is spectacular and looks like a city on another planet. If possible, in time, I would like to contribute ideas with sustainable solutions.
I am proud to live in Silicon Valley. I love that so many people in the Bay Area are conscious about human impact on the environment. Although I will admit a lot of claimed corporate environmentalism is nothing but greenwashing, but it is rare to see people and businesses care about the environment and about business ethics in general quite like they do in the Bay Area.
I am really struggeling trough school right now, but this... This just lifts me up and gives me a goal, a goal that I can maybe one day I could work at google and make the world a better place the way they do!
aflorcew87 Tim Fain is playing violin on this!! He played in 12 Years a Slave and on-camera in Black Swan, and he performs a lot with Philip Glass too. Tim co-composed the music with Will Bates (Fall on Your Sword) Jessica Brillhart directed
Google is the most inspiring company out there just seeing what they are doing is amazing and I would one day like to be part of it .what google is doing is quite amazing ,bringing nature and everything into it makes it quite unique and I like what they are doing
It's my dream to work at Google as a researcher & I think 🤔 you just motivating me to think in a critical way alike you thanks for that. how long probably it will take??
"Somebody who really thinks about function & form and you couple that with beauty and you just have this team that's pretty amazing stuff" - actually you still have the eternal conflict of form vs function, no shortcuts. The proposed forms seem to fit with Google's stance of try everything, convoluted thinking that pervades their products these days.
How do you heat and cool a space like this? It seems like it would have poor insulation. The climate in Mountain View is probably relatively mild compared to a lot of other place, but still. Also, what happens to people with allergies if there are plants and trees inside of this space?
The French botanist Charles Lucien Bonaparte is often credited with building the first practical modern greenhouse in Leiden, Holland, during the 1800s to grow medicinal tropical plants.
The future of buildings is much like the future of code. You don't strive to fork off from decades of progress, you want to build on top of previous technologies to make a better product. Current skyscrapers are extremely efficient, fit a large number of people into a very small footprint, have solved many problems such as birds and vermin, as well as many other things I cannot even point out in this space. Current buildings incorporate a lot of nature inside. They don't need to look like nature on the outside. We have malls with trees, skyscrapers with grass, and homes with rivers. I don't know why this concept needs the fancy tent; it leaves a lot of problems on the table which we solved with rigid steel and glass structures. I understand the desire to be able to morph your work space - your building - but that is considerably less efficient to do than utilizing current technology and the massive amount of space across this country. As you try to fit in with nature, please take a look at nature. Nature is extremely good and weeding out bad ideas. Nowhere in nature do you see this proposed design. Yet colonies of ants that need to handle millions of individual bodies tend to look like a skyscraper - centralized multi-floor access with compartment rooms. Do you know what your design looks like, Google? It looks like bugs cocooning a tree, which isn't generally a good thing for the tree.
Interesting in concept. For the gentleman Heatherwick to say he would like to build something that would last more then 5 to 10 years kind of contradicts what he's talking about. Tech. is old as soon as it touches your hands no matter what shape or form it comes in.
I love it! But my fear is that it doesn't include severe weather and a rising water table. It is inevitable! The talk of the future really didn't express a hundred years from now.
Pretty soon, Google will be living 50 years ahead(with a few blocks of surrounding areas), while the rest of california lives 50 years behind it. It almost feels like they're thinking on a small scale, yet it's a large project. The ambitions seem nice. I suppose it should only take a few years to perfect the Google work environment, but striving to make earth much better as a whole should be the ultimate goal. Not just spending billions and billions on nicer buildings for Google.
interesting in a sense but the cocoon around the complex only serves to isolate google from the city and not the other way around. better to just build Google into a natural park so everyone can see it and appreciate the beauty of architecture merged landscape merged technology in symbiosis with earth.
Yeah, agreed. And it's sad how millions try to live with minimal money, and they just spend millions for these kind of stuff. If somebody have the power and money why not try to help those in need? Or invest money in something the whole world could profit on. (I basically like Google products, but this video is way off)
TheBlacktom I don't mind that they spent billions on it. that's what you're supposed to do with money. otherwise it sits in a bank account and helps nobody. make sure the architecture is consistent with message you want to convey. don't hide Google's presence. show how strong, beautiful, integrated, yet transparent google is. build the most pioneering and organic campus ever in stark contrast to apples mothership design. earth is the mothership. Larry Page
Something about this project seems really off to me. Maybe it's the fact that the baseline logic doesn't really add up. The problem seems to be that current facilities look too much to the past in their design. By that, I mean, it seems like the current campus operates on a suburban commuter model. That's why there are so many parking lots. The proposed solution is making sure the new buildings co-exist with nature. That still doesn't solve the original problem, which is that so many employees have to commute. There seems to be little integration of living and working facilities. That creates the logistical nightmare facing the present campus. . It's a novel idea to create environmentally friendly buildings. I think this project comes off as very misdirected though. Notes: -I've never visited the Bay Area so it's entirely possible I don't know what I am talking about. -My city has committed to a similar project with less emphasis on green spaces. I think it comes off as really out of touch. Creating spaces people want to be is important, but when a large percentage of the people who work there commute from far flung neighborhoods, it defeats the intent of the design IMO. This seems like sort of a trend in big projects in the past 5 or so years.
There is still no explanation as to why constructing domed buildings is supposed to have a magical effect. Or what makes a temperature-controlled dome any more eco-friendly than any other structure? Just to get away from the highway noise? Is this campus supposed to combine workspaces with leisure and residential spaces? Is this by any chance so that Google employees will live and work in the same spot? A cult-like company town, sealed away from the outside world where all the employees can be controlled?
pinz2022 It's not about being eco-friendly. It's about reversing the mistake we made in the 20th Century by making vehicle-centric cities. They even stated that.
Dear Dave Radcliffe, I appreciate what moves you toward innovation in Habitat living, it is a good start. It is difficult to be a negative voice, specially when you read the comments and most of them express much enthusiasm...but I have to suggest few important things. To start if you are going to pursue a heart surgery, you need a team prepared to perform that specific surgery, it sound stupid right... in fact you can't call two Pulmonary Physicians, even if they are two very good doctors. To design a City, an Habitat or part of it... You need the right "Doctors". To design a City, is not an Architect job. It is an Urban Designer and Landscape Architect job, that needs to be complemented by the Architect vision at certain point... If you give this job to an architect what you end getting is what you got... anything but an innovative habitat, just a extravagant and costly vision of something that may look very attractive in those renders but in reality is just a fail. I would recommend you to call for an international competition, spelling out all your futuristic views and desires Google would like to achieve, "the IDEAL CITY of the FUTURE". I am sure that as well as any crazy architects will attend the call and participate with very striking but fail ideas... fortunately for Google future and for the human wellness, there will be plenty of smart teams, made of innovative professionals eager to participate. Teams made up of first class Planners, Urban Designer, Landscape Architects and Architects as well, that have the appropriate knowledge and expertise in what a City is and how it needs to be designed. I assure you that you will get, at a very partial cost of what you must be spending today, amazing results, from which you may select three of the best IDEAS. And ask the select teams to enter a second stage to explore further down, in more detail their IDEAS to turn them into feasible and build-able Habitats. The world could follow the process and interact, providing for more ideas enriching the original ones... And Google will get a real and positive exposure... It will be on ongoing process. Best. FR
God... way to make the forefront in science and evolution. I've thought about a concept like this for years now and now someone is doing it. I would also like to see a sorta utopia island dedicated to all sciences. I think that is something that the United nations should do.
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The plastic-wrap-overtop-existing-structures look seems like overkill of glass. If the road noise is such an issue, innovative acoustical engineering (smart noise cancelling sensors/radiators) could be used in the outside areas open to your envy-worthy climate. In this engineered natural environment, you could hear crickets if you wanted. In a climate that is "weather best by government test", why seal the building within a glass membrane? Other observations: 1. Looking at the renders -- Will anyone work there? 2. Are you really saying that this is going to be treated like public space, with the general public wandering through? 3.Googlers spend most of their time in front of a screen -- The glare on your computer screen is a problem when sitting in a greenhouse, no?
I agree with Brent. In 5:05 they say "Google (...) can't be a fortress that shuts away neighbors/nature...", but that 's exactly what it feels with the plastic-wrap-overtop-existing-structures. So unnatural. Like the Google buses: they're inside while we're outside.
Google gets hundreds of visitors coming to its main campus every day. Just walking around taking pictures. Given the design shows people biking in the "glass tents" I assume its completely open on the sides with the cover protecting from rain and cutting down the light. The Denver and Beijing airports, which I like, have a bit of the feel but they have to be sealed. Northern California weather would need only cooling.
I've lived in mountain view since 1990 and I find it interesting that Google is talking about how to work with the environment and have the architecture look like its blended in with nature. but in the shoreline area, mountain view is the one that has been restoring that area and making it nice and then Google comes along and destroys this 1 acre of preserved land for a personal outdoor workout park that is closed to the public. It's an eye sore. The entire shoreline area has taken around 15yrs to restore and it seems like as long as they get what they want, fuck everyone who also lives in the area.
that's too bad, I hope they at least open it to the public :/
Bo Tian That's bull, I jog and workout there every other day, and the only time its open is when people leave the door up, So its really a hit or miss. yeah you get some people playing soccer or working out. But its not open as much as you think. But the bigger issues is that its Public land being used for private use, and your argument is "Its open to the public on weekends" so its closed over 70% of the time. You know the area that mountain view residents fought so hard to clean all of shoreline park up ( because it used to be a land fill area) and now that we have clean the land we can only used that area for less then 30% of the time. Well hot dam. Thank god there is a video showing us how to work with the environment and that we should share, But as long as we Google get 1st dibs on everything you can have whatever is left over.
it's a decision from the local government, not solely google's will. It's either google or some other companies there.
Thanks for sharing tearvon.
Bo Tian Only on the weekends when googlers are not there. What, they don't mix well with the public?
This is fantastic! Amazing video capturing a revolutionary project.
When i read "The Circle" i were allways imagining something like this you are now working on.
I really support you and the Ideas and visions you have and realized and will realize in the futer are allways a piece of the future brought to the humankind!
Thank you for being what you are Google!
I do not want to watch this
Thank you, Google, for working for true innovation that expresses transparency, innovation, and public space, and doing for the real world what you're doing for digital.
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Tim Fain is playing violin on this!! He played in 12 Years a Slave and on-camera in Black Swan, and he performs a lot with Philip Glass too. Tim co-composed the music with Will Bates (Fall on Your Sword) Jessica Brillhart directed
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You Guys are Changing the way we think and live...and taking it to a whole new level...i think google is not just a Company but an Institution...kudos to Google
The beauty of the overall concept eludes me: Yes, I get the idea that the natural environment is being pushed aside now, with the infrastructure... roads, parking lots, and so on. And the planners rightly see the problems with treating trees as accessories, and so on. But then the solution to encapsulate nature under glass makes little sense to me. Rather than being an open and expansive project working with nature, this idea of putting nature under a dome... isolating it... seems counter-productive to the goal of embracing it. It honestly evokes a snow globe to me.
The design is beautiful, I agree.... but as a sculpture, not as a living, working environment. And why the need anyway? Doesn't the area have one of the nicest climates in the world? Why shut that out under an artificial canopy? And then what? Put in artificial water sources to replace the rain you have now shut out? And what about cooling this gigantic, fake environment? Won't this entail a gigantic energy consumption?
The most brilliant architectural solutions often push the envelope of design, as this does; but they must also solve old problems in clever ways. This does not... it just puts nature... and Google's staff for that matter... into a giant fake world. I wouldn't want to work in that thing... I'd rather be able to go out for lunch, under a real sky, with real trees and a real fresh breeze.
Yeah!!!. True ..why are they creating another fake envelope..you got the point
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Great minds working on great projects. I'm happy to be living in this day and age.
This has not only restored my faith in Google, but it gives me a new found faith in the world. The fact that you're doing this gives me hope for the world. Everything is turning to mass production and its killing the earth, but the fact that you men and women down at Google can change the world with this project. Not mass production but integration with the environment, its truly a beautiful and very welcome sight.
Incredible vision Larry Page . I immediately shared with our [Google] Campus 👍
And this is the reason why Google is awesome everyone! I wish I can work for them one day.
This is right next to my house and I can say for sure they cranked up the saturation and put grass in places there isnt any, but saying that this looks pretty damn awesome.
They are going to make the heaven on earth.. Cann't believe and imagine their creativity.. Bravo for this work..
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The words are really good. Sometimes we forget the most simple that is to explain our ideas to change obsolete mentalities to achieve nature cities. I really believe in the power of words and the best visualization. I love all Thomas Heatherwick's works. But . . I missed the water management and nature dynamics. The most important . Thanks for share.
Amazing analysis, ideas, human and nature orientated design ! Bravo BIG & Heatherwick studio. I love it !
Simply brilliant. Google has the right idea here, to bring back everything that we slowly push away such as wildlife and even social interaction. Good work!! It's a dream of mine to create for Google. To make a difference in the world through a company with the right mindset.
If you are ever in Dallas, Thomas Heatherwick's art and models are on display at the Nasher Sculpture museum. It is really worth going.
I always admired companies like Google, Microsoft etc. but more I work and more skilful I get as developer, less desire I have to work for such companies. Isn't it nicer to create your own startup and challenge some of these big guys, innovate or creating something on your own. I'm sure that working for Google is awesome but how unique do you feel as individual there ? I think the most fun part of any company (including what Google when they started) is the growth, innovation and devotion phase. I feel that there's almost no fun when you get so big.
If this is to be done within my life time then its a must visit.
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You really inspired me with your vision. I accompany international students, executives and wish I knew how I can tour inside there and present an explanation of this project. Amazing piece of architecture and do futuristic !
I have always wanted to work for Google. It was my dream but I realized that I am more qualified to help kids with the help of Google. It is nice to see a company that understands people.
I've also heard it will have an innovative solution to homelessness. Surrounding cameras will monitor the area, when it detects you are homeless, a trap door will open and will connect you to an underground water slide that will excrete you into the ocean.
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Tent caterpillars. Out here in the desert we have water issues. Those greenhouse-like coverings is something we could use for our parks. But not webs. And definitely not so that birds could harm themselves flying into. They have to be sort of sealed to keep transpiration from escaping. Water quality is a problem for us in the deserts. Distilling (I believe) is something that should be employed and use that as a sort of recharge in parks, school yards, institutional landscaping, etc.. If sealed, rainwater harvesting could also occur. Wind steals a lot of moisture . . . from the plants and from the ground. Sunbelt states that insist on border walls and can't seem to keep their pants on ought to consider that there is much that needs to happen for survival through time. Time is a long time.
Indeed, mind boggling ideas!!!! Really out of the BOX....
Fully support this kaupapa, would highly rate living around there too!
I would clean the toilets to work at google.
Just get a "domestic worker" job with one of high priced Google's employees and you will be cleaning toilets.
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Well that sucks.
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Dave Kos You know the thoughts of thousands of google employees? That's amazing.
That was beautiful. The design of those buildings reminds me of "spider webs" you see in the lawn in the early morning. Natural and flowing.
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I really hope this gets built. It is inspiring. My only comment is that for Phase II, PLEASE add some housing! Tech companies need to get serious about driving San Mateo and Santa Clara counties to add housing density to match the increasing office space they are building. This neighborhood's zoning is about to be opened up and Google should be on top of that. Look at all the parking lots in those arial shots of North Bayshore. There is so much room for housing if we put that underground.
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OK, so Tim Fain co wrote and performed on the score...amazing.
Do I sense some sort of parallel with him and Will Bates working together on the music, and Heatherwick and Bjarke Ingels working together on the architecture??
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Forget about it, just give me that spinning chair! :D
Really like that chair!!
that's beyond awesome... I wish I can work in such campus one day
Unbelievable how this valley has change the world, I hope to work someday there!
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This is one of my favorite videos to watch! So inspiring!
I hope this is something that isn't going to be completely forgotten.
Awesome. Love that chair he sat on at the end. Everything so unique. Can't wait to see it come alive.
If you build yourself a greenhouse environment, make sure you have enough air circulation or its going to be extremely hot.
Wind and a tornado situation would compromise this type of roof. It would have to be structurally strong. I work in the greenhouse environment and the substrate only lasts for so many years it has to be replaced and can be very costly.
excited to see Thomas Heatherwick and Bjarke Ingels work together!!
Well, Google is doing a great job. But, even though Google says we are open, and their motto says 'Don't be Evil', how much sure are we about that. I feel that, in fact, Google should consider being more contactable. Many of my friends were angry to Google for removing their Adsense without any valid reason. I lost my adsense for putting 'More' as the ad title, and I regret it. But, I still am a fan a Google . The company, should not be a controller of people, like many, but instead, should take user suggestions. There is really no way for a person to suggest anything to Google. And, I think Google should start Educational services online. Google should stand to their motto. Let us hope that the new campus will soon come.
As an architect I believe that large scale projects should indeed offer something back to the people and the planet. Companies like Google and great architectural studios like BIG and Heatherwick have the power to make a difference if they are willing to walk the whole way. I wish they do. The thing that bothers me at this stage is the attempt to do so, but plastic-wrapping the units in the process.
While I understand these designs are still in their infancy, I would appreciate more insight into the design process, and what problems the architectural decisions aim to solve. For example, why are there dome-shaped enclosures attached to groups of buildings? What will be involved in maintenance of that architecture? If parking lots will be turned into "greenhouses", then how are vehicles to navigate around the "empty fields or nature"? Moreover, how do these decisions aim to enhance work throughput, what's the time-frame for such a reconstruction, and what effects might that have on the employees currently working on the campus?
great to see a brit at the table.. long vid but stylish to watch..
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Anyhow, I just got motivation from this video! Ambitious and hard working makes everything into life ! Great idea and good tech company!
Questions. 1. The canopy seems highly reflective. Are you accounting for blinding reflections with neighbors, not only neighboring buildings but road and foot traffic? 2. The project is aiming to rejuvenate waterways and offer space for wild ecosystems. Will this take into account natural migratory paths through Google's yard? Or will the design of the yard influence migratory patterns?
If there isn't a residential component to this it will be worse than Santana Row. Also, free advice, when I look out the window of my gym in downtown SF (an actual city) it always amazes me how many contractor's trucks are parked outside. If this is to be a living structure don't forget the contractors.
Can't believe Mountain View turned this down for a bunch of LinkedIn office buildings.
Thanks so much for trying to do something amazing and transformative for the Mountain View community.
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The green house idea is great, you could have offices open to nature. Imagine the productivity of someone whose able to have all the technology they need but work in a natural environment too. Also the buildings would last longer because they'd be out of the elements.
If coding with nature was so productive, don't you think the best programmers would be doing so in the park, or on the side of a mountain? The fact is the best work comes from closed spaces where you don't have to worry about the outside world.
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How does the glass membrane dome effect acoustics?
i'm a big (huuh) fan of BIG but so far I have the feeling this is another architecture project that undermines the importance and effect of conscious sonic building (a lá the glass cafés that capture our attention by eye sight but are awful to converse in).
Wow, this is really neat. I can't wait to check this out when they get it done!
Looks awesome. I hope more companies follow this idea the next time they expand their headquarters.
This commitment by Google is truly Salubrious! My hope is they ripple into a wave that changes human interaction with business and the environment! I live in Atlanta, Georgia and would love to see this level of conscious development in people and the places they work.
Google has always been an inspiration to me. They have great ideas and goals.
Amazing! Lets build cities like this, just imagine the savings on construction time and energy usage. Plus just pure happiness of the people that will work in this environment.
"Turn the dial up on nature" has to be one of the most unintentionally ironic linguistic juxtapositions I've heard in a while. "More nature: 1. More parking lots: 0."
I congratulate Google. The project is spectacular and looks like a city on another planet. If possible, in time, I would like to contribute ideas with sustainable solutions.
I am proud to live in Silicon Valley. I love that so many people in the Bay Area are conscious about human impact on the environment. Although I will admit a lot of claimed corporate environmentalism is nothing but greenwashing, but it is rare to see people and businesses care about the environment and about business ethics in general quite like they do in the Bay Area.
I am really struggeling trough school right now, but this... This just lifts me up and gives me a goal, a goal that I can maybe one day I could work at google and make the world a better place the way they do!
This is so awesome. I would love to work there.
Really cool...who did the MUSIC? And WHO is playing violin on this?
aflorcew87 Tim Fain is playing violin on this!! He played in 12 Years a Slave and on-camera in Black Swan, and he performs a lot with Philip Glass too. Tim co-composed the music with Will Bates (Fall on Your Sword) Jessica Brillhart directed
Wow this would be amazing if you guys can do this all over the United States. I love nature.
Love it. Cool idea. I'll have to visit someday.
Google is the most inspiring company out there just seeing what they are doing is amazing and I would one day like to be part of it .what google is doing is quite amazing ,bringing nature and everything into it makes it quite unique and I like what they are doing
As Jayce from android authority says "Mother Google" you are the best, keep up and continue make ecological projects more and more popular ,)
It's my dream to work at Google as a researcher & I think 🤔 you just motivating me to think in a critical way alike you thanks for that. how long probably it will take??
I'm so pumped for this idea! I hate parking lots and how nature has been defiled!
THIS is where I will work. I live near Mountain View, so that is where I will go.
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Google + BIG! Two of the best of their industry, now work together.
"Somebody who really thinks about function & form and you couple that with beauty and you just have this team that's pretty amazing stuff" - actually you still have the eternal conflict of form vs function, no shortcuts.
The proposed forms seem to fit with Google's stance of try everything, convoluted thinking that pervades their products these days.
P.S. I'm not anti-Google, just sick of airy concept videos. This feels less like a proposal and more like a retort to Cupertino.
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Really enjoyed watching!
Well, Apple's spaceship kinda looks old now
Really astonishing project
Beautiful concept! This is the future, this must be the future...
How do you heat and cool a space like this? It seems like it would have poor insulation. The climate in Mountain View is probably relatively mild compared to a lot of other place, but still. Also, what happens to people with allergies if there are plants and trees inside of this space?
Utopia era has begun.
This is awesome!! Great minds, great people.
I predict a lot of birds are going to die from crashing into that 'glass fabric'
The French botanist Charles Lucien Bonaparte is often credited with building the first practical modern greenhouse in Leiden, Holland, during the 1800s to grow medicinal tropical plants.
The future of buildings is much like the future of code. You don't strive to fork off from decades of progress, you want to build on top of previous technologies to make a better product. Current skyscrapers are extremely efficient, fit a large number of people into a very small footprint, have solved many problems such as birds and vermin, as well as many other things I cannot even point out in this space.
Current buildings incorporate a lot of nature inside. They don't need to look like nature on the outside. We have malls with trees, skyscrapers with grass, and homes with rivers. I don't know why this concept needs the fancy tent; it leaves a lot of problems on the table which we solved with rigid steel and glass structures. I understand the desire to be able to morph your work space - your building - but that is considerably less efficient to do than utilizing current technology and the massive amount of space across this country.
As you try to fit in with nature, please take a look at nature. Nature is extremely good and weeding out bad ideas. Nowhere in nature do you see this proposed design. Yet colonies of ants that need to handle millions of individual bodies tend to look like a skyscraper - centralized multi-floor access with compartment rooms. Do you know what your design looks like, Google? It looks like bugs cocooning a tree, which isn't generally a good thing for the tree.
Thank you for exploring yet another pathway into the future.
It makes me happy to know that an important enterprise like google is looking towards ecological worldwide future. That's awesome!!
Interesting in concept. For the gentleman Heatherwick to say he would like to build something that would last more then 5 to 10 years kind of contradicts what he's talking about. Tech. is old as soon as it touches your hands no matter what shape or form it comes in.
I'm with Occam. Razors are a good thing :)
I love it! But my fear is that it doesn't include severe weather and a rising water table. It is inevitable! The talk of the future really didn't express a hundred years from now.
Pretty soon, Google will be living 50 years ahead(with a few blocks of surrounding areas), while the rest of california lives 50 years behind it. It almost feels like they're thinking on a small scale, yet it's a large project. The ambitions seem nice. I suppose it should only take a few years to perfect the Google work environment, but striving to make earth much better as a whole should be the ultimate goal. Not just spending billions and billions on nicer buildings for Google.
interesting in a sense but the cocoon around the complex only serves to isolate google from the city and not the other way around. better to just build Google into a natural park so everyone can see it and appreciate the beauty of architecture merged landscape merged technology in symbiosis with earth.
and the other thing.... hire new architects.
Yeah, agreed. And it's sad how millions try to live with minimal money, and they just spend millions for these kind of stuff. If somebody have the power and money why not try to help those in need? Or invest money in something the whole world could profit on. (I basically like Google products, but this video is way off)
TheBlacktom I don't mind that they spent billions on it. that's what you're supposed to do with money. otherwise it sits in a bank account and helps nobody. make sure the architecture is consistent with message you want to convey. don't hide Google's presence. show how strong, beautiful, integrated, yet transparent google is. build the most pioneering and organic campus ever in stark contrast to apples mothership design. earth is the mothership. Larry Page
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Wow wonderful. But just wondering what if this parasols can spin when they aren't use for cover so in a way you can generate energy .
Something about this project seems really off to me. Maybe it's the fact that the baseline logic doesn't really add up. The problem seems to be that current facilities look too much to the past in their design. By that, I mean, it seems like the current campus operates on a suburban commuter model. That's why there are so many parking lots. The proposed solution is making sure the new buildings co-exist with nature. That still doesn't solve the original problem, which is that so many employees have to commute. There seems to be little integration of living and working facilities. That creates the logistical nightmare facing the present campus. .
It's a novel idea to create environmentally friendly buildings. I think this project comes off as very misdirected though.
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-I've never visited the Bay Area so it's entirely possible I don't know what I am talking about.
-My city has committed to a similar project with less emphasis on green spaces. I think it comes off as really out of touch. Creating spaces people want to be is important, but when a large percentage of the people who work there commute from far flung neighborhoods, it defeats the intent of the design IMO. This seems like sort of a trend in big projects in the past 5 or so years.
This video has some amazing background music. Can anyone tell the names of the tracks playing here?
This looks great, usually i would't care about Google happenings but i'm all for this.
There is still no explanation as to why constructing domed buildings is supposed to have a magical effect. Or what makes a temperature-controlled dome any more eco-friendly than any other structure? Just to get away from the highway noise? Is this campus supposed to combine workspaces with leisure and residential spaces? Is this by any chance so that Google employees will live and work in the same spot? A cult-like company town, sealed away from the outside world where all the employees can be controlled?
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It's not about being eco-friendly. It's about reversing the mistake we made in the 20th Century by making vehicle-centric cities. They even stated that.
pinz2022 Kind of depressing, but the homeostasis would be good for companies.
+Dookie6891 There are not many residential spaces in the development and everyone will still drive to Google
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Dear Dave Radcliffe, I appreciate what moves you toward innovation in Habitat living, it is a good start. It is difficult to be a negative voice, specially when you read the comments and most of them express much enthusiasm...but I have to suggest few important things. To start if you are going to pursue a heart surgery, you need a team prepared to perform that specific surgery, it sound stupid right... in fact you can't call two Pulmonary Physicians, even if they are two very good doctors. To design a City, an Habitat or part of it... You need the right "Doctors". To design a City, is not an Architect job. It is an Urban Designer and Landscape Architect job, that needs to be complemented by the Architect vision at certain point... If you give this job to an architect what you end getting is what you got... anything but an innovative habitat, just a extravagant and costly vision of something that may look very attractive in those renders but in reality is just a fail. I would recommend you to call for an international competition, spelling out all your futuristic views and desires Google would like to achieve, "the IDEAL CITY of the FUTURE". I am sure that as well as any crazy architects will attend the call and participate with very striking but fail ideas... fortunately for Google future and for the human wellness, there will be plenty of smart teams, made of innovative professionals eager to participate. Teams made up of first class Planners, Urban Designer, Landscape Architects and Architects as well, that have the appropriate knowledge and expertise in what a City is and how it needs to be designed. I assure you that you will get, at a very partial cost of what you must be spending today, amazing results, from which you may select three of the best IDEAS. And ask the select teams to enter a second stage to explore further down, in more detail their IDEAS to turn them into feasible and build-able Habitats. The world could follow the process and interact, providing for more ideas enriching the original ones... And Google will get a real and positive exposure... It will be on ongoing process.
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God... way to make the forefront in science and evolution. I've thought about a concept like this for years now and now someone is doing it.
I would also like to see a sorta utopia island dedicated to all sciences. I think that is something that the United nations should do.