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Facebook's 'hacker campus' to take on Apple's spaceship, Google's new Googleplex and Amazon's Biosphere in battle of the hi-tech offices
By Victoria Woollaston and Mark Prigg
UPDATED: 15:33 GMT, 27 May 2013
It is a hi-tech battle that could change the look of the office forever - and according to some, could signal the beginning of the end for the tech giants.
Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon have all revealed some of their biggest new projects, and instead of hi-tech gadgets, they are offices.
The four firms have chosen very different approaches - from Facebook's plan for the world's biggest open plan office to Amazon's Biodomes with their own ecosystem.
Facebook's West Campus to be built in Menlo Park by 2016 and designed by Frank Gehry . It will feature the world's biggest open plan office, with 3,400 Engineers sitting together - and is designed to replicate a college campus
Amazon's plans for a biosphere office resembles a greenhouse or conservatory. The three intersecting domes replace an earlier plan for a six-story office building. It will be full of plants and will be built over five floors
Google plan for a 1.1 million square foot Googleplex. Called Bay View, it will have nine rectangular buildings, horizontally bent, with living roofs surrounded by courtyards and connected by bridges. No employee will be more than a two-and-a-half-minute walk away from any colleague, a design aimed at encouraging collaboration.
Apple Headquarters
Google's Googleplex
facebook campus
Amazon's Domes
Facebook's 'hacker campus' to take on Apple's spaceship, Google's new Googleplex and Amazon's Biosphere in battle of the hi-tech offices | Mail Online
- Amazon's biosphere will be full of plants that have been specifically designed to survive in the microclimate while still being comfortable for Amazon's employees
- Facebook's new office, designed by Frank Gehry, is designed to replicate a college campus and will feature the largest open floor plan in the world for 3,400 engineers
- Apple's 'spaceship' campus in Cupertino has a unique circular design masterminded by British architect Norman Foster
- Google's Bay View 'village' will cover 1.1 million square feet and will have nine rectangular buildings connected by bridges
By Victoria Woollaston and Mark Prigg
UPDATED: 15:33 GMT, 27 May 2013
It is a hi-tech battle that could change the look of the office forever - and according to some, could signal the beginning of the end for the tech giants.
Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon have all revealed some of their biggest new projects, and instead of hi-tech gadgets, they are offices.
The four firms have chosen very different approaches - from Facebook's plan for the world's biggest open plan office to Amazon's Biodomes with their own ecosystem.
Facebook's West Campus to be built in Menlo Park by 2016 and designed by Frank Gehry . It will feature the world's biggest open plan office, with 3,400 Engineers sitting together - and is designed to replicate a college campus
Amazon's plans for a biosphere office resembles a greenhouse or conservatory. The three intersecting domes replace an earlier plan for a six-story office building. It will be full of plants and will be built over five floors
Google plan for a 1.1 million square foot Googleplex. Called Bay View, it will have nine rectangular buildings, horizontally bent, with living roofs surrounded by courtyards and connected by bridges. No employee will be more than a two-and-a-half-minute walk away from any colleague, a design aimed at encouraging collaboration.
Apple Headquarters
Google's Googleplex
facebook campus
Amazon's Domes
Facebook's 'hacker campus' to take on Apple's spaceship, Google's new Googleplex and Amazon's Biosphere in battle of the hi-tech offices | Mail Online
