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This article is about the headquarters of Google. For the large number, see. Googleplex Built July 2004; 14 years ago ( 2004-07) Location, U.S. Coordinates: Address 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 The Googleplex is the complex of and its parent company. It is located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in, United States, near.

The original complex, with 2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m 2) of office space, is the company's second largest square footage assemblage of Google buildings, after Google's building in, which the company bought in 2010. Once the 1,100,000-square-foot (100,000 m 2) Bay View addition was completed in 2015, the Googleplex became the largest collection of Google buildings with 3,100,000 square feet (290,000 m 2) of space. 'Googleplex' is a of and complex (meaning a complex of ) and a reference to, the name given to the 10 (10 100), or 10.

Former entrance to lobby of Building 40 The original campus [ ] SGI Campus [ ] The site was previously occupied by (SGI). Statistik teori dan aplikasi ebook stores. The office space and corporate campus is located within a larger 26-acre (110,000 m 2) site that contains Charleston Park, a 5-acre (20,000 m 2) 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). It was a creative collaboration between SGI, STUDIOS Architecture, SWA Group, and the Planning and Community Development Agency of the City of Mountain View.

[ ] 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 noted that the SGI project was a significant departure from typical corporate campuses, challenging conventional thinking about private and public space and awarded the project the ASLA Centennial Medallion in 1999. STUDIOS Architecture was the architect for the original SGI campus, and provided both interior architecture and base building design. Google campus [ ] The former SGI facilities were leased by Google beginning in 2003.

A redesign of the interiors was completed by Architects in 2005. In June 2006, Google purchased some of Silicon Graphics' properties, including the Googleplex, for $319 million. Google Campus in Googleplex Since 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. 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, and eighteen cafeterias with diverse menus. Google has also installed replicas of and a dinosaur skeleton.

Since 2007 the site has featured a series of solar panels covering the rooftops of eight buildings and two solar carports, and capable of producing 1.6 megawatts of electricity. At the time of installation Google believed it to be the among corporations. The panels provide the power needed for 30% of the peak electricity demand in their solar-powered buildings.

Four 100 were shipped to Google in July 2008, making Google the first customer of Bloom Energy. The (previously outside of Building 44 on Charleston Road), are now located on the Google campus at 1981 Landings Drive (at ), and include a giant green statue of the logo and additional statues to represent all the versions of the Android operating system. Bay View addition [ ]. Google buildings near Shoreline Park In 2013 construction began on a new 1.1 million square foot headquarters campus dubbed 'Bay View' adjoining the original campus on 42 acres leased from the and overlooking at. The estimated cost of the project is $120 million with a target opening date of 2015.