GOOGLE’S NEW LONDON HQ IS A ‘LANDSCRAPER’ WITH A ROOFTOP GARDEN and more+
And a swimming pool, and massage rooms, and a running track, and many more
It’s got space for more than 4,000 employees, a rooftop garden with a running track, and has been dubbed a "landscraper" for being as long as a skyscraper (A Skyscraper is tall, continuously habitable building having multiple floors) . It’s Google’s new London headquarters, the final plans of which were submitted this week to Camden council after years of back-and-forth between the tech giant and architects.
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Construction on the “Zone A” development will start in 2018 at a site overlooking London’s King’s Cross railway station. The final design was created by the Bjarke Ingels Group(BIG) and Heatherwick Studios.
Google's new UK headquarters will be a mixed-use development in Kings Cross Central, a huge plot of land (~67 acres) behind Kings Cross station that used to be warehouses, scrubland, and other railway-related things. The new building will consist of commercial (A1) property on the ground floor, with up to 10 storeys of Google space above.
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The next eight floors mostly consist of open-plan offices, which will presumably provide enough space to house the few thousand Googlers currently dotted around various London buildings. The top two storeys have lots of fun stuff, like massage rooms, staff cafes, "multi-use games areas," and a swimming pool.
And then, of course, on top of the 330-metre-long building is a roof garden to beat all other roof gardens. There's a turf lawn, wooden decking, a wild meadow, big trees, and even a running track. A handful of photovoltaic solar cells are up there, too, though not enough to power the building. Because Google's new building is longer than many skyscrapers (the Shard is 310 metres tall), some are calling it a landscraper.
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The whole thing, for some unknown but divinely inspired reason, is stepped. The front of the building is significantly lower than the back; the rooftop garden looks like it has at least five different levels. The external effect is stunning—it makes the building look so much more alive. Internally, we imagine there'll be a lot of ramps.
Video of Google's London HQ landscraper
In a statement, London mayor Sadiq Khan said: "Google's expansion at Kings Cross is great news for London and further cements the capital's reputation as one of the world's leading technology hubs. It is another clear sign that London is Open and remains entrepreneurial, international, and full of creativity and possibility."
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