Friday, February 27, 2015

Exclusive: Google campus plan would explode the concept of buildings, workspace (renderings)

The Silicon Valley Business Journal reports:
Google — along with a team of prominent architects — has spent more than a year rethinking every assumption about office buildings, tech campuses, and how they relate to their neighborhoods. The result? Four futuristic structures where basic building elements — floors, ceilings and walls — attach or detach from permanent steel frames, forming whole new workspaces of different sizes. With help from small cranes and robots ("crabots"), interiors will transform in hours, rather than months.
Article well worth your time. Does government have an incentive to innovate? We think you know the answer.