Googleplex, Corporate headquarters complex in Mountain View, United States
The Googleplex is the headquarters of Google in Mountain View, California, composed of several interconnected office buildings spread along Amphitheatre Parkway. The complex stretches across landscaped grounds, gardens, and courtyards linked by glass walkways between structures.
Google moved into the site in 2003 after Silicon Graphics, which originally built the campus, collapsed financially. Three years later the company purchased the property outright and began expanding and reshaping the buildings.
The name is a portmanteau of Google and complex, also echoing googolplex, the number 10 to the power of a googol, a term defined by Edward Kasner and James Newman in their 1940 book Mathematics and the Imagination. The lobby holds a piano and a projection of live Google search queries, and the grounds display replicas of SpaceShipOne and a dinosaur skeleton.
Much of the campus is closed to visitors, but you can walk or cycle along the public roads and sidewalks that pass through the grounds. Some outdoor sculptures and installations are visible from these paths without entering restricted areas.
The Android lawn statues, including a giant green Android logo and figures for each operating system version, stood outside Building 44 on Charleston Road before being moved to 1981 Landings Drive. Since 2017 solar panels on eight buildings and two carports have produced 1.6 megawatts, then the largest corporate installation in the United States.
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