Dive Brief:
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Apparently unfazed by the Mountain View, CA, City Council’s rejection of its plan for an enormous extension of its campus last month, Google has proposed an alternative, nearly 600,000-square-foot structure on a nearby, 19-acre plot.
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The San Jose Mercury News reported that the search engine giant filed plans on Friday for a multiple-story “translucent domed building” after the council awarded most of the city's available space to LinkedIn, leaving too little room for Google’s original, larger campus.
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TIME described the planned building as “a giant glass forest” and said it “looks like it belongs on Mars.” See a photo of the proposed structure here.
Dive Insight:
The new plan includes some of the same design developments as the original blueprint the council rejected, according to the Mercury News, which called the replacement bid Google’s “trump card” that it had “in the wings.”
Members of the council told the newspaper they were not surprised by the technology titan's quick comeback. The new plan would locate a building on a site that Google has rented from the city. Its lease allows the company to build office and commercial structures there, according to the Mercury News.
