Google already had building rights for a fifth site overlooking Charleston Park, just east of the current Googleplex [...]
A 2007 lease agreement allows Google to build up to 595,000 square feet of office and commercial space there. [...]
The new plans feature the same futuristic designs by European architects Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick that were part of the larger plan debated by the city this year.
— mercurynews.com
For some background on the Googleplex expansion plans:
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Goggle FTW.
Schumacher must be fuming, post-Fordist society is ignoring him.
Apple FTW
Sort of defeats all of the civic minded, expandable mumbo jumbo they were spewing before. It becomes what it always was; a cynical, isolated and elitist compound sans any real architecture. When will the retro Bucky fuller fetish end in design... how was that Dymaxion car working out for you? Meanwhile maybe we should ask what Bucky protege Foster learned.....oh I guess Apple knows
http://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/why-urban-domes-are-bad-for-society
This quote from one of the Councilman seems key "we need a holistic version of North Bayshore that ties in offices, housing, retail and transit" but also what is missing more broadly from Google's plans, at least for now...
"We knew they would eventually submit a proposal," said City Councilman Chris Clark. "We just didn't know what. I'm happy it's not a traditional office building and that it actually fits with their overall campus vision."...A publicly accessible nature path would traverse the giant dome, connecting pedestrians and bicyclists traveling from Charleston Park to a small plaza with shops and pop-up kiosks or farther east toward the baylands.
I disagree, Lightperson, that it's Apple FTW. Apple's campus is closed, Google proposed this project specifically to not be a traditional (private, cclosed) office building and to provide public means of movement through the property.
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