Curbed: The Googleplex Is Growing

Via Curbed Magazine:

“Google has wormed its way so deeply into our brains, our language, and our minute-to-minute lives that it can be hard to remember how large it looms in the physical world. The company’s unquenchable appetite for West Side real estate in Intrepid-size doses has been transformative…And now it’s added another million-plus square feet in, and on top of St. John’s Terminal, a four-block industrial monster that runs along the western edge of Hudson Square, from Spring Street to West Houston Street. To which I can only say, Phew! I mean that in both senses: astonishment at the sheer measurable scale of the enterprise, and relief that it’s yielded some rich and distinctive urbanism.”

Read the full article here: The Googleplex Is Growing The company’s new St. John’s Terminal headquarters, meant to lure workers back to the office, is a city within a building.