Roof completes on Heatherwick and BIG's Google HQ
New photos capture the latest progress on the headquarters that BIG and Heatherwick Studio have designed for Google in California's Mountain View.
Silicon Valley photography company The 111th took the images of Google's new campus, currently under construction in Mountain View, California.
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels' international firm BIG and London's Heatherwick Studio, led by Thomas Heatherwick, teamed up to design the complex, which marks Google's first office to built from scratch.
It comprises two structures built close together and a larger volume a few blocks away.
The 111th's images capture the construction of the three buildings, which are set to be topped with white tent-like roofs. Each canopy is formed as a series of panels that dip slightly in the middle, creating a rippled effect. The photos reveal that the rooftop of the larger building is fully completed. The windows at incisions across the panelled top, which are called "smile-shaped clerestories", are also installed.
The construction of two nearby buildings is also well underway, with one of the structures featuring a similar roof.
The 111th, which specialises in real-estate photography, discovered the project when flying over the Silicon Valley site in November 2018. It captured the early stages of construction on the larger structure in an aerial movie.
Heatherwick and BIG first revealed Google's new headquarters in 2015 with a series of dome-shaped buildings. The duo originally claime...
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