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Google's Mountain View, California headquarters.
- Google's Mountain View, California headquarters opened a more than 31,000-square-foot area inspired by the area's history of salt mining in 2019.
- The floor is a place for Googlers to hang out, eat, or workout.
- Google is known for its quirky offices, often inspired by the locations where they're built.
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Google is known for its fun and unusual offices, and its Mountain View, California headquarters is no exception.
Also called the Googleplex, the company's global headquarters had legendary perks including wellness classes, cafes, and office designs that will put the average cubicle to shame.
Google has a history of placing offices in unexpected buildings and incorporating local culture into offices around the world, from an old airplane hangar in LA to a former vodka factory in Warsaw, Poland. Its Cambridge, Massachusetts office is in a more standard building, but the inside is based on local Boston-area sites.
The Googleplex added 31,276 square feet of themed amenity space that includes three cafes, a fitness center, and seating areas in 2019. It's called Salt, based on the history of salt production in the area. The old ghost town of Saline City and its salt marshes were a source of salt production dating back to 1854.
Form4 Architecture firm used this history to inspire this design. Take a look inside.
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