Google opens new Los Angeles campus

Above, a man walks through a tunnel of Google homepage logos at the Google campus near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles. Below, Googler Katharine Ng zooms in to Paris on panoramic Google Maps screens. And, a man walks past the iconic pair of giant binoculars designed by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen at an entrance of Google's new LA home. The 100,000 square-foot campus was designed by architect Frank Gehry. Around 500 employees develop video advertising for YouTube, parts of the Google+ social network and the Chrome Web browser at the site. (REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson)

• [dculberson]

  500 people in 100,000 square feet?  Must feel pretty empty!

  • [Their feldspars]

    It’s for the pigeons.

• [Won Word]

  Wow, it is about time someone cool took over that place :)

  That particular building is about 15-20 years old. I remember when it went in, they bulldozed a lumber yard and the ‘end’ of the Southern Pacific branch line that crossed Pacific Avenue.

• [Ito Kagehisa]

  Sometimes there are 17 windows in the tower.  Sometimes there are more, or less…

• [errguitar]

  Besides being the former HQ for Chiat/Day this was also the Razorfish LA office from 1999-2000. Great drafty, leaky Gehry building.

• [Evan G.]

  They’ve had windows broken twice last week, and then a few days ago a dead body was found in the evening not far from the building:
  http://la.curbed.com/archives/2012/01/trouble_at_google_in_venice.php 
  http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/01/google_venice_body_main_street.php 

  Some things about Venice don’t change…

• [Yo! Venice!]

  Lots of pictures inside the offices here: http://www.yovenice.com/2011/11/04/google-venice-beach/     The dead body had nothing to do with google and there was no foul play.  http://www.yovenice.com/2012/01/12/homeless-man-dies-on-main/

• [symphony595]

  More photos here: https://plus.google.com/110206169594070357955/posts/4CVmBVswpuQ