Google's plans for expansion of its corporate headquarters featured a network of translucent, greenhouse-like domes which would include new offices and tree-lined public trails.
Google had plans for a groundbreaking Googolplex in Mountain View, Calif., but those plans may need to be rethought after the Mountain View City Council granted Google only 515,000 square feet of the available commercial space. That's only one-fourth of the available space and enough room for Google to build only one component of its four-part campus expansion.
Whimsical Google Campus Expansion Plans Include Movable Structures
Instead of granting Google all the space it requested, the city council granted LinkedIn 1.4 million square feet of the available 2.2 million square feet of commercial space in the area.
(more on Google and LinkedIn's battle for development space...)
