Google – The world’s biggest internet company has the world’s most unique working environment, the headquarter known as Googleplex has a mix of open spaces and enclosed spaces depending on the work task. Design by LA based design firm Clive Wilkinson Architects, this is the world’s biggest children playground… … I mean world’s coolest working environment for Peter Pans and friends. Rumors has it that Larry Page and Sergey Brin wants Google’s staff to think like a 5 years old kid, probably due to the fact that only kids that an unlimited imagination where the universe is the playground. This explains why Google has some of the most innovative web applications and leaves their competitors struggling to play catch-up.
Googleplex has a children center, if you’re a working mummy or daddy simply drop your kids there and you can do the same for your pet dog but not cats at the pet center, same goes for your laptop or gadgets with their 24 hours service center, basically Google take care most of their workers’ needs except for your mother-in-law.
hello,i’m an architecture student in Lebanon and i am doin a reseach on the googleplex because i would like to do a googleplex for the middle east in Lebanon as my final project in my universaty.i do not know if i could reach any of the “Clive Wilkinson Architects” who contributed in the conception of the Googleplex in this comment…but if i can i really would like those architects to help me understand how i should think to create a “googlers” envirement and spaces from the inside and from the outside. i mean all that i read here and all the research i did gave me a big idea about the googlplex being the world’s most unique working environment,but i would like to hear what the architects who concepted it have to say…hope someone helpful communicates with me may be Mr.Clive Wilkinson himself.thank you for any who is willing to help me.
yours truly,Gilbert khalil
I think you would find it most helpful to read the Googleplex article that made the cover of Metropolis this past year.
hey gilbert, their website has a email id…why dont u write there? u might get something…
all the best