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1. Google’s Bay Shore
Kimberly Galindo

2. What is it?
 Google’s Bay shore is the new replacement of its
current Silicon Valley headquarters, also known as
“Googleplex.” Google’s new HQ will be in Mountain
View California. The new architecture is wildly
ambitious, high concept, and weird. Which is to say,
they’re just as Googley as you’d imagine.

3. Where is it or where is it
happening?
 Instead of solid buildings, the plans call for a series of
soaring, tent like structures with canopies of translucent
glass. Arrayed beneath each glass canopy are
lightweight, modular sub buildings that can be easily
rearranged to accommodate different types of spaces
and projects. Snaking around them are tree-studded
walking and biking paths, some of which be lined with
shops and restaurants and open to the public.
Meadows and creeks would link campus to the
neighboring San Francisco Bay. The project is about
minimizing the boundaries between indoors and out,
permanent and temporary, public and private.

5. How is life on Earth affected
by it?
 The architecture of Google’s Bay shore is bright
because it has natural sunlight of the shear ceilings. I
can see it now the hordes of bright tailed, bushy eyed
Googlers coasting silently to work on their self driving
solar powered bikes, saving the world by lunchtime and
then rearranging their office to save it again in a
different way before dinner. All while mingling fruitfully
with the diverse yet clean cut local mountain viewers
who for some reason will find it convenient to cut
through North Bay Shore on their daily constitutionals.
Googles big tech companies’ earnest efforts to help
their employees get to work by bike, train, and private
bus rather than by car. Saving the earth less pollution.

7. Bay Shore Google’s problems
 The big question is how much of this Google will be allowed
to build. The City of Mountain view is entertaining various
options for its planned development of the North Bay shore
area, of which Google’s is one. According to the Silicon
Valley Business Journal, LinkedIn plans to submit its own
proposal for the area by the city's Friday afternoon deadline.
Mountain View harbors mixed feelings about becoming
Googletown, U.S.A. The company's prominence has helped
to put the once-sleepy, suburban city of 75,000 on the world
map. But it and other Silicon Valley enclaves, including
Cupertino are wary of becoming de facto company towns,
dependent on the fortunes of a single megacorporation
especially one in an industry as volatile as technology.

9. Problems with Solutions
 Google’s ambitious plans for a 3.2 million square foot
company headquarters with a translucent rooftop has many
political problems because of silicon Valley low on houses the
county wanted that piece of land to build for paper houses.
The solution is simple if contractors would build homes similar
to Google's new HQ with translucent roofs then give some of
the land to them but I believe the new design for Google is
what this world needs. Something to go along with the earth
instead of creating a building blocking natures view. If
Google's does build the new HQ it will become the new
architecture of the way new buildings and homes will be built
on from now on. It will help future generations to respect the
earth and understand we are the earths guest.