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As one of the leading web browser companies, google needed to grow in the building they were. The design concept is really simple?the city of Mexico.When you enter the reception you find this really white space, with a bright colored logo, that lets you in into two different spaces. One, the techtalk, a big auditorium for multiple uses. Here the focus of design is the Mexico city google map carpet, which captures you eye the moment you step in.
Courtesy of SPACE – Photographs : Eric Velazquez Torres
The other door let you into Mexico city. First you see Chapultepec, an informal meeting space with swings, a lake and a very big tree. Then you see that the carpet is actually a street that takes you everywhere. You can take an actual refurbished cab and have a phone conversation, or you can take the subway, that holds all the technical rooms in the office. Courtesy of SPACE – Photographs : Eric Velazquez Torres
You can continue your journey either south, and find workstations and Xochimilco, where you can have a video conference inside a Trajinera, which is a traditional Mexican boat; or you can go north, and enter Teatro Blanquita, a big meeting space where Google Hangouts happen.
Courtesy of SPACE – Photographs : Eric Velazquez Torres
Food and catering is really important for the company to give to their employees, so you can find a deli in the middle of the space where you can either eat or meet. T...