The ASLA 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.

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 objective was to develop in complementary fashion the privately owned corporate headquarters and adjoining public greenspace.

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 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). The office space and corporate campus is located within a larger 26-acre (11-hectare) site that contains Charleston Park, a 5-acre (2-hectare) public park improved access to Permanente Creek and public roads that connect the corporate site to Shoreline Park and the Bay Trail. The site was previously occupied by Silicon Graphics (SGI). 'Googleplex' is a portmanteau of Google and complex (meaning a complex of buildings) and a reference to googolplex, the name given to the large number 10 (10 100), or 10 googol.įormer entrance to the lobby of Building 40 The original campus SGI Campus The original complex, with 2 million square feet (190,000 square meters) of office space, is the company's second largest square footage assemblage of Google buildings, after Google's 111 Eighth Avenue building in New York City, which the company bought in 2010. It is located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California.

The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc. For the abandoned Google initiative, see Plex (Google). This article is about the headquarters of Google.

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