Google Bay View
Mountain View, United States
Client
Typology
Work
Size m2/ft2
102,192 / 1,100,000
Status
Completed
“Our design of the new Bay View campus is the result of an incredibly collaborative design process. Working with a client as data driven as Google has led to an architecture where every single decision is informed by hard information and empirical analysis. The result is a campus where the striking dragonscale solar canopies harvest every photon that hits the buildings; the energy piles store and extract heating and cooling from the ground, and even the naturally beautiful floras are in fact hardworking rootzone gardens that filter and clean the water from the buildings. All in all, a campus where front of house and back of house, technology and architecture, and form and function have been fused into a new and striking hybrid.”Bjarke Ingels - Founder & Creative Director, BIG
"Google Bay View offers a workplace experience that is an antithesis to an urban high-rise; Containing as much area as the tallest office tower in San Francisco, the typically stacked floorplates are redistributed into a flat array, creating a vibrant village. While on-site carbon and water neutrality is challenging for skyscrapers, this bay-scraper typology enables us to harvest the power of the sun, earth, and water. We hope Bay View will provide a quantum leap in the evolution of the workplace, elevate the benchmark for sustainable design, and inspire the next generations of users and visitors to the building."Leon Rost - Partner, BIG
Creative Director
Bjarke Ingels
Partner in Charge
Thomas Christoffersen
Daniel Sundlin
Beat Schenk
Leon Rost
Project Leader
Blake Smith
David Iseri
Florencia Kratsman
Ryan Harvey
Project Manager
Linus Saavedra
Ziad Shehab
Project Team
Agla Egilsdottir
Jason Wu
Cristina Medina-Gonzalez
Erik Kreider
Guillaume Evain
Isabella Marcotulli
Jan Leenknegt
Michelle Stromsta
Patrick Hyland
Rita Sio
Seo Young Shin
Shu Zhao
Siva Sepehry Nejad
Terrence Chew
Thomas McMurtrie
Tracy Sodder
Zhonghan Huang
Deb Campbell
Dylan Hames
Isela Liu
Ji-Young Yoon
Alan Tansey
Alessandra Peracin
Andriani Atmadja
Armen Menendian
Bernard Peng
Brian Zhang
Camilo Francisco Aspeny Inostroza
Jia Chengzhen
Cheyne Owens
Christopher Wilson
Claire Thomas Spiller
Cristian Lera Silva
Danielle Kemble
Derek Wong
Diandian Li
Douglass Alligood
Eva Maria Mikkelsen
Gaurav Sardana
Helen Shuyang Chen
Jennifer Wood
Jian Yong Khoo
Joshua Burns
Joshua Plourde
Kalina Pilat
Kurt Nieminen
Mads Kjaer
Manon Otto
Marcus Kujala
Nandi Lu
Nicole Passarella
Olga Khuraskina
Oliver Colman
Peter Kwak
Ramona Montecillo
Tiago Sá
Timothy Cheng
Tingting Lyu
Valentino Vitacca
Vincenzo Polsinelli
Walid Bhatt
Ye Sul Cho
Yina Moore
Ali Chen
Ania Agnieszka Podlaszewska
Benjamin Caldwell
Hacken Li
Sebastian Grogaard
Awards
Facade Tectonics Institute's Vitruvian Award, 2023
Silicon Valley Business Journal Structures Award, Best Architecture, 2023
Engineering New Record (ENR)’s Global Best Projects competition, Best Office Project, 2022
Collaborators
BIG - Bjarke Ingels group
Heatherwick Studio
Sares Regis
Adamson Associates
STUDIOS
Populous
Thornton Tomasetti
Integral Group
Olin
BKF
Arup
Sherwood
Holmes
Kleinfelder
Loisos + Ubbelohde
FMS
C.S. Caulkins Co.
Teecom
Whiting-Turner
Applied Wayfinding