4,000 employees are moving into the company's new Mountain View campus this week.
The tech giant showed off the new site in a video that also gave a lot of insight about the design.
The most lucrative part of its global business will be filled with workers from the California campus.
The site was designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Heatherwick Studio with input from the design and engineering teams at Google. The company says it takes green building and workplace design to the next level.
The new campus contains a couple of office buildings, a center capable of holding as many as 1,000 people, and more than 200 accommodations for employees visiting from out of town, according to CNBC. It has seven cafes to keep everyone fed and watered.
The new campus was built largely with healthy, sustainable materials and was filled with natural light and high ceilings. The lower level is mostly a gathering place for people to work together on the next big thing, while the upper level is divided into smaller spaces for closer collaboration.
The gorgeous design suggests that many of the people who work from home could return to the office. Two years of workplace disruption caused by the coronaviruses have prompted the company to encourage staff to work on site again. The new hybrid model of working has led to the inclusion of lots of screens for videoconferencing and booths for smaller video calls on the campus.
The roof of the campus has solar panels that cover it. The water will be used for various purposes. The interior air is kept fresh, too, with the ventilation system using 100% outside air, a huge improvement over regular systems that only use up to 30% of outside air.
There are 17 acres of natural green spaces that include meadow and woodlands that employees can stroll through.
The site of the new campus is an opportunity to rethink the idea of an office building, according to the director of the R+D at the company.
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