The Googleplex

From the latest issue of Fast Company, all about "The Masters of Design":

Completed just last year, Wilkinson's new offices for Google's Mountain View, California, headquarters are a paean to boundless ambition and nonconformity. At the core of the Googleplex, as it's called, is a miniature city of tented glass rooms, padded pavilions, and Astroturf lawns, all anchored by a monumental stair that's embedded with laptop ports, to encourage stoop- sitting during the workday. For Mother, a top-shelf London ad agency where employees are accustomed to working around a communal table, Wilkinson built on tradition, but on a massive scale, installing a 250-foot-long concrete "desk" that swoops around like a racetrack and seats up to 200.

I can only imagine that the Googleplex is a thing of beauty.  One day, when I have my own company, I will prioritize the design of workspace. And like Google, pets are invited to work.

Links:
Time Magazie's photo essay of the Googleplex
Google Culture, by Google