The global architecture of GA has been reported 15, the sci-fi headquarters of China science and technology giant. This paper will focus on American technology giants and see their pursuit and thinking on architectural space, function and form.
Amazon Seattle headquarters /NBBJ
Most technology companies will be located in suburban parks with trees, but Amazon has built a completely natural office building in downtown Seattle, USA. Its most iconic element is a multi-layer botanical garden composed of three glass balls. This design is inspired by the concept of "biophilia", which explains human nature's desire to embrace nature. Here, the staff "goes to work" with 40,000 high-altitude plants from five continents.
Amazon Arlington "HQ2"/NBBJ
As the second headquarters of Amazon, the overall design of HQ2 aims to integrate the unique, green and environmentally-friendly ecological architectural modeling into the modern urban landscape, and also hopes to create an ecological environment where people are close to nature and live happily through the open and active space. Its architectural inspiration comes from the minimalist' double helix structure', which is full of green and covers the whole building, realizing the ingenious integration of two completely different elements-green nature and modern architecture "seamless embrace".
Google Bay View Campus /BIG+Heatherwick Studio
The project is located in the Ames Research Center of NASA in Silicon Valley, covering an area of 654.38+0.7 million square meters. This is Google's first park built from scratch, aiming to achieve uninterrupted zero-carbon operation throughout the year by 2030. All three buildings adopt light suspended ceiling structure to optimize indoor lighting and sight, and create comfortable space for cooperation, experience and activities. Architecture embodies Google's people-oriented ambition to create sustainable and innovative office space, and provides flexible and reproducible solutions for industries such as architecture.
Apple Park/Jobs, Foster Partners, George Ivey
The $5 billion Apple Park is one of the most expensive and huge buildings in the world. The simple ring form hides great professional knowledge and innovation. The design makes the building blend into nature and environmental protection, and also responds to the company's slogan of "being different". The roof is the largest carbon fiber independent roof in history. Solar panels and other renewable energy sources provide 75% of the electricity demand for the whole building.
Microsoft Canada Headquarters/Wilkinson Eyre
The new headquarters of Microsoft branch in downtown Toronto is as high as 250 meters, which is made of light folding glass fa? Ade, creating a diamond pattern that repeats every ten floors, increasing the vertical proportion and forming a contrast with the surrounding buildings. Towers stand on both sides of the railway track and will be connected by elevated parks in the future.
Facebook Headquarters mpk 20/ Frank Gehry
The project is located in Silicon Valley, covering an area of 40,000 square meters and costing 400 million US dollars. In particular, the whole office building is completely integrated and has no space, making it the largest open office space in the world. The workspace is like a big warehouse, where people change seats back and forth with different projects. The transparent design makes the building like a "giant fish tank", and all floors and employees' activities in it can be seen at a glance, including CEO Zuckerberg's workspace. The roof of MPK20 is a super-large hanging garden, with more than 400 trees planted and walking for nearly one kilometer.
Uber Headquarters /Quezada, Store
Uber's new headquarters building in San Francisco consists of four buildings, covering an area of about 39,298 square meters. The "breathing" facade of the building is one of the most innovative highlights of the headquarters. The controllable curtain wall system controlled by computer automatically ventilates according to the local climate, which improves the indoor air quality and reduces the demand for mechanical ventilation. According to the local sunshine and wind direction model, the design team installed 180 automatic opening and closing glass windows at specific locations to obtain the temperature control of the building, which can reduce the use of cold and warm air by about 20%. According to the global building green standards, Uber headquarters is expected to meet the requirements of LEED gold medal certification.
IBM Amsterdam headquarters/power company
The architect drew inspiration from IBM's entrepreneurial spirit and created a building that operated like a vertical city. Its core is a large social space atrium, and the surrounding neighborhood units are multi-tenant offices. This is a building that encourages people to exercise: the open stairs in the atrium will encourage employees to exercise by climbing stairs, thus reducing the use of elevators. In addition, there is room for fitness, running or yoga on the ground floor. In the pursuit of creating a healthy environment, architects integrate "nature" as another element into the building and build barrier-free outdoor activity spaces, such as landscape terraces and roof gardens.
Salesforce global headquarters /PCPA office
The headquarters building designed by Perry Clark Perry Architects (PCPA) is the tallest building in San Francisco and the second tallest building on the west coast of the United States. The 326-meter-high tower has a classic obelisk style, and the 60 floors are gradually divided from bottom to top, forming a slender and tall volume. Nearby, you can clearly see that the horizontal and vertical shading sheets gradually become shallow, highlighting the glass in the four corners of the tower. The tower crown shines at night, which is particularly dazzling in the skyline of the San Francisco Bay Area.
NVIDIA NVIDIA headquarters /Gensler office
NVIDIA is the inventor of GPU and the leader of artificial intelligence computing. In the new headquarters of NVIDIA Silicon Valley designed by Gensler, when the architect considers the best geometry to organize this network, the triangle becomes a perfect shape, and the distance between the connections will never be too far. The triangle also symbolizes NVIDIA's work. As a technology giant in the visual computing industry, triangle is the basic language to define all shapes in the digital field.