Google Bay View Campus, Silicon Valley, , Californian Architecture Photos
Google Bay View Campus in Silicon Valley
May 18, 2022
Design: Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Heatherwick Studio
Location: Silicon Valley, California, USA

Photos: Iwan Baan
Google Bay View Campus, USA
Google has announced the opening of its new Bay View Campus in Silicon Valley, representing the company?s first time developing its own major campus.

The Bay View campus was designed by architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Heatherwick Studio, as well as Google?s design and engineering teams, and spans 42 acres adjacent to the NASA?s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. It totals 1.1 million square feet, with 20 acres of open space, two office buildings, an 1,000-person event center, and 240 short-term employee accommodation units.
The interior of the buildings reemphasize Google?s vision for the future of work, designed in response to its understanding of why Google?s employees come to the office, what they need from their teammates, and what they need from the company.

For those coming into the office, it was designed to balance Googlers? desire to come together as teams with the need for an environment that enables deep-focus work. Team spaces are on the upper level and gathering spaces are below, separating focus and collaborative areas while still providing easy access to both. The second floor design has variation in floorplates to give teams a designated ?neighborhood? area that is highly...