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Google`s amazing way of utilizing office space

If you are really in to tech stuff even though you are not a hardcore tech geek, you must have at least gone through once in your lifetime what silicon valley is. Its a picturesque land portion in California, San Francisco , United States. Silicon Valley is the source of innovation. In simple words it is the kingdom of worlds cutting edge technology and fountain of billion dollar businesses. And also not to mention home of lots of tech startups.

Google, who is renowned for its genuine raw creativity each and everyday also had its headquarters built in Mountain View, silicon valley since  2004. Google has 70 plus offices in over 40 countries and recently they have redeveloped four of their sites. One thing about Google is that they try to do things differently and from time to time they come up with something cool that can bring a  great deal of change and often it is a success story. This time they going to change the architecture of their headquarter because it is just a headquarters and they want something different to be done.LANDINGS_INT_MIR

Every Google office is nourished with natural landscaping and all of them are surrounded with raw natural beauty. With the new headquarters proposal they have been creative and want eliminate the distinction between buildings and nature. So the Google employees will feel no difference in nature and office.The new office space will be large greenhouse with adjustable space. This large greenhouse is made up with transparent fabric glass like shelter where it will light up the office space with natural light. Building consists of moveable components instead of  squared box structures because Google want their office space to be moveable especially where they can have multiple work environments in a single space because Google has lots of different projects going on in a any given day.

With this they want to do something creative in construction and architecture field where something world hasn’t seen so far. The mastermind architects  behind the scene are Bjarke Ingels, architect and founder of big and Thomas Heatherwick, founder of Heatherwick studio. You can read more about this Google new proposal via their official blog.

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Kalpa Gunarathna

Undergraduate at University of Colombo School of Computing.
Interested in UNIX, computer networks and Software development.

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