Additionally, California voters in 2020 decided businesses should keep the Prop 13 exclusion that allows business property taxes to stay (nearly) fixed based on the price of purchase, not the appreciated price. It was really sad to see big businesses marketing worked to turn enough voters away from such a basic reform. This reform also had no impact on small businesses or personal property. It was purely targeted at moderate to large businesses, many of which pay a pittance relative to the current value of their properties.
@@forloop7713 being a socialist means you complain on Twitter and protest lawful shootings in the streets, you don't actually do anything productive. 😂😂😂
The slave owners would hardly approve of their slaves owning transportation to escape their oppression. Nothing new under the sun...."I owe my soul to the company store" was an old song about just this concept...work, pay rent to the company you are working for and buy your food from the exact same company...They Will OWN you, lock, stock and two smoking barrels.
Google's adventures into building and communities is interesting, but this video was pretty much perfect! Visuals, audio, content and jokes all top tier!
_"Optimizes team working"_ is corp-speak for very loud soulless open offices where it's impossible to concentrate and everyone is forced to wear heavy noise-cancelling headphones all day. 😢
@@laundrylurker3242 it was _really_ bad where I worked (one of the big US tech giants). Even worse than a sea of cubicles. An entire large floor densely packed with nearly a thousand people on small desks with absolutely no walls. Managers would permanently book a meeting room as a de facto office to get some work done. The courtesy was not extended to lowly engineers of course.
You can tell that open floor offices are a terrible idea for productivity because every person involved in the decision to put engineers in these offices (CEOs, directors, HR, architects) never work themselves in such environments, while telling engineers that their complaints are unfounded and it's the perfect work environment. 🙄
Yeah my ears ring really badly after working in these types of offices. All the eco rubbish and eco ventilation was a load of expensive crap that didn't work. I call them converted car parks. Thank god Covid has shut most of them down.
“Google is set to bring 4,000 new homes and some 20,000 new workers to San Jose.” That is literally going to contribute even more to the housing shortage with a ratio like that :(
Which is why the Bay Area has a social responsibility to allow the construction of much more housing than they currently do, pushing supercommuters 2 hours away from their workplaces. San Jose is the 10th largest city in the country, but it's utterly sad in its sprawl and car-dependency.
Google and other tech companies are literally the root of the housing crisis in the area. Brings 100s of thousands of jobs with literally no homes constructed is a recipe for disaster.
Many people think Apple has a monopoly but that’s only within the apple ecosystem, google has the real monopoly, everyday pretty much everyone uses at least 1 google product, everyday, from the search engine, to maps, to reviews, etc
@@lovelyhomeboy2782 'Oligopoly' is a state of limited competition, in which a market is shared by a small number of producers or sellers. Construction and Real Estate is one of the most competitive markets out there. Are you saying there aren't enough players in the AEC industry?
This left out the Chicago West loop office.... but west loop as a neighborhood is a whole video itself for B1M so I’ll just plant this comment here....
6:38 "Affordable" housing has a specific, strict legal meaning in CA and in the US (it is not some loosey goosey PR term), which means rents/costs are set to be affordable to a households some percentage
@Steve Acho Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet is best known for the remark, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men...", That's Google, Twitter, Microsoft, etc.
Great video. But what is Google thinking in San Jose? 4000 living spaces but 20000 new jobs? I can relate to these housing shortages my university in Amsterdam reduced the intake of students to my program by 50% because it is so tough to find housing.
with google, it will bring investors that would build more houses plus if needed google can build more on their own. Where your school have hardly that impact
Most of sj’s resident commute outside of sj. There’s a big imbalance in terms of housing vs jobs. Housing produces less in taxes. The goal is keep more residents working near where they live.
Very impressive stuff from google, but what this video tells me more is that google has such a ridiculous amount of money that they can throw at billion dollar projects like these and it barely makes a dent in their profits.
My understanding is that this building would not have affected their past or current profits. That is, my understanding is that a company cannot place an investment in stocks, bonds, or property and then declare the investment to be a business expense purely because it is no longer cash profits. Anyone know otherwise?
All of their buildings look so good on the interior and exterior, as long as they don't build big ugly boxes for offices I think it's a good thing. These look like college campuses and a lot of the spaces look to have high loss factors in the square footage which usually makes for more architecturally appealing and creative feeling spaces.
Awesome content! I am not interested in pursuing a career in construction but I still love watching your videos to learn more about how our urban world is built and what it takes to do it the right way.
I think the next project should be “google pipeline” from east to west so they can fill there empty lakes with flood waters form the east! Should only take them a year!! 😉
I'm surprised more people don't see this as a glowing review of Google's work on Google's own platform and stop to question a possible relationship... More scrutiny needed. B1 does great work, and that credibility is being lent to this video, including everything it contains in the way of good words about Google. I can only hope this video by B1 gets some prime ranking in the RUclips algorithms out of this to get more eyes on all their other work. After all, "what would Google do" 🤨
napping rooms at google is not and example of "employee well being" but rather overworked employees forced to sleep at work, to meet unrealistic standards
To be honest, I'm disappointed the project in Toronto was canceled. There was too much controversy around privacy and data collection. Using the internet or owning a smartphone gives SOMEONE your information. Google's smart city would at least help improve community standards. The land earmarked for development will likely be mismanaged, poorly designed, and under-utilized.
The homes project reminds me a little of the Rowntree company in the UK, they build a whole town for the workers & both my grandparents worked & lived there their whole lives. How things have changed huh? Not sure they're going to be "affordable" in Google's version as noted in the video though.
4,000 new homes and 20,000 workers. Lol. As a a resident of the area and a mild supporter of the project, I believe this is another example of tech getting a pass for the crippling housing environment in the bay. Talk about the proximity to Diredon but not the good graces Google has on the housing crisis they helped cause.
Well the goal should always be a balance between jobs and housing. Housing produces less revenue for cities and is a bigger drain. Ideally more people should work near where they live. Housing needs to be addressed regionally with strict quotas.
I'm glad you put "affordable" in quotes, but I wish you had done the same with "sustainable".... It, too, is a word that has a fluid definition and is often misused especially when talking about construction.
I worked painting the gates for Google Bay View. For some reason Google. Asked us to cover the. Very small ( near invisible) "USA" stamps in the steel.
If google really wants to help the san jose area, start lobbying to remove the single family household zoning and allow for more apartments, duplexes, and triplexes to be built. that would ease the housing issue without any need for crazy redevelopment
I work a few blocks away on Shoreline - you should look at what horrible damage they are doing to the S.F. Bay area commute by being hyper-centrally located in the south-west bay area. Nothing like sitting in 2+ hours of traffic pre-pandemic to go less than 25 miles. All those people going into the office can only do so with 4-lanes of traffic. I argue that it is the most unethical thing to do putting 10s of thousands of people in a 5 mile square, which has immense negative impacts on the environment, job and housing markets, traffic loads, etc...
Funny how rollerblading comes in be4 scooting or skateboarding despite their relative popularities. Also love how the ground looks great in most parts, but just slightly too many big cracks to make skating there pleasurable.
"Affordable Housing" is a misnomer. There's evidence that price control requirements actually reduce affordability by reducing the number of units built overall. Also, google never sells days to third parties. Ever. Why would they sell their main asset to someone else? They keep it to themselves so they can have the best ad targeting.
At least they're investing back into communities and creating jobs in the process. Unlike those car manufacturers (GMC. Ford...) who take our money then build factories in China.
Decentralized workplaces needs to be the future. Eliminating uninhabited office space, commuting, and the need for wasteful mass transportation would go a long way to solve climate issues that destroy cities.
This makes it sound excessive and pointless until you realise that these buildings probably are used by divisions where they don't interact with each other. Android, Maps, Search, RUclips can each take a floor and practically be a different company.
I'm confused a little, the map showed new officed in dallas but not Austin like the image showed, also the data center outside Charleston isn't really new it's been around for awhile now.
I knew you had to bring up the mass timber building after watching you're live zoom panel about wooden schools! I'm sure many of the additional benefits of building a school with wood such as mental benefits also apply to office buildings.
I'm glad to see they are doing something to relieve the housing shortage. One, because they're partially responsible for it, and two, they might be the only developer in CA with the resources to navigate the state's anti-building restrictions.
Would you take a home in exchange for 24hrs surveillance? Just like google gives you free gmail in exchange for scanning your emails and gathering data for advertisers, I’m sure many of us would accept an apartment where your every move is collected and categorized for future ad placement
I have finally tasted "remote work", and I NEVER want to go back to an office environment, no matter how nice it is. It like interaction with "virtual" people better than real people it turns out.
I cycle past the Bay View campus daily. The construction has been an eye sore for YEARS. There is literally zero work going on most of the time. It seems to happen in bursts, followed by nothing going on for weeks. Also, I have seen no signs of infrastructure development outside the building perimeters either. The roof system seems impossibly complicated, time consuming, and labor intensive to construct. and there is seemingly no rhyme or reason to what parts they finish, and what parts are still nowhere near complete. I can't even imagine what Google must be spending just on BIG equipment rentals (like cranes) sitting idle for weeks or months at a time. And Google has still not fulfilled their promise to cover the giant aircraft hanger that was part of the 60 year lease deal so the CEO types can land their multi-million dollar jets at any time of the day or night. Which is technically not supposed to be allowed on a federal air field anyway. And not that I'm opposed to "green" construction, but so far every eco-friendly building I've seen go up has been a good awful place to work. The one at Moffett Field (next door to Bay View) was vacant for a long time because after NASA built it nobody could afford the required eco-friendly furnishings to fill it with. I'm not sure how terrible the HVAC is in that building now.
This seems like a future white elephant, like today’s large shopping malls. Google will quickly dissolve once AI replaces it. How will individuals doing programming and assembling data/information compete with high speed AI?
I like the timber design. It's very modern and environmentally friendly. I love the use of all the solar panels. That's a LOT of energy savings. A lot of the things, however, look more suited to a day care than a building focused on productivity. I mean, a building where you need to walk, bike or rollerblade up to get to different floors? How about an elevator, I'm at work? Let's be real, when was the last time you wanted to get real sweaty and red faced over your lunch break? Let's hope the ball pit was just a joke because I don't know if I could ever take an adult seriously after I called him/her out of a ball pit to a meeting. But hey, Google is a multi-billion dollar company, I'm renting an apartment. Another great video though...I love every one in my own way
Please... Women in video did inline skating...✌️ Rollerblading is another type of skating... But yes , it's far far away from buildings knowledge and understanding 😒😏 However one of the best channel here B1M including...
Down town San Jose is lovely and has wonderful parks and lots of lovely trees. You can't enjoy them quite as fully as you might like as they are filled with homeless people. I found it quite a surprise that the richest country in the world can't find a place for people to sleep other than a park. I'm not sure it will be that much better for being turned into "Googletown."
We have plenty of places for the homeless to live in, let alone sleep. Tens of thousands of empty homes. But if you can't make a profit off of these human beings, nobody wants anything to do with them.
This a federal problem, if the problem was really just the Bay Area then other areas of the country should be able to house the homeless. But they can’t and they are often hostile to their presence.
4,000 new homes + 20,000 new employees will make San Jose's housing shortage worse. basically, Google will force more gentrification on our city displacing poor and working class people as the rental properties these people occupy will be priced out of range and upgraded to site higher-paid Google workers. The token housing and community development Google negotiated with the city were minimal to get approval of the plan, thanks to our Mayor (now retiring) and well financed city council members. Tomorrow's Build needs to go beyond the Google PR to tell a credible story here, you fail to do that.
Im glad for once someone Critisized Google and other tech giants in generation on how everywhere they go housing become a problem. im glad you brought up the bad and not just suck off google on what they are building. good on ya.
Okay I've straight up lived in Silicon Valley for most of my life and haven't heard about some of this unit l now 😂 Fr though, dammit, Fred, you and your team have made another great video. It's great that you talked about the controversial side of what Google is doing too, since housing prices have gotten ridiculous here and it's a serious issue for local governments. (For context, the median, MEDIAN single family house in San Jose is at least 800k, probably more after bidding.) I've spoken to a lot of people living near downtown San Jose (close to where Google is doing a lot of development), and a lot of them, especially older folk who lived in the area before the tech boom, aren't too happy with all the changes Google and Apple are bringing to the area. It's creating a cultural divide of sorts between the families who've lived in this area before the 90s and the newcomers pricing out anyone who isn't a top engineer, doctor, or researcher.
First off, really well produced video. But this sort of action by Google and other companies is a bit scary. I don't want to live in a world where you sleep the same place you work. Also is scary that prices will be driven up to the point where an individual cannot own their own property anymore. Seems like an infringement on American life
Haha I still rollerblade! Awesome video as per 👌🏻
this video also reminded me to get new roller blades
You're not the only one
@@montypython1042 thanks
Это ты на видео?
Buy property as company = reducing taxable income
Buy property as a regular person = in debt for half your life
Additionally, California voters in 2020 decided businesses should keep the Prop 13 exclusion that allows business property taxes to stay (nearly) fixed based on the price of purchase, not the appreciated price. It was really sad to see big businesses marketing worked to turn enough voters away from such a basic reform. This reform also had no impact on small businesses or personal property. It was purely targeted at moderate to large businesses, many of which pay a pittance relative to the current value of their properties.
@@dosadoodle I thought Californians were more socialist than this
@@forloop7713 being a socialist means you complain on Twitter and protest lawful shootings in the streets, you don't actually do anything productive. 😂😂😂
@@2e826 cringe
@@forloop7713 Not the actual people in power
It's strange to see walkable environmentally-sustainable corporate campuses in the middle of the soulless, car-dependent sprawl of Silicon Valley.
Agreed lol
@R.machado it's definitely encouraging.
The slave owners would hardly approve of their slaves owning transportation to escape their oppression. Nothing new under the sun...."I owe my soul to the company store" was an old song about just this concept...work, pay rent to the company you are working for and buy your food from the exact same company...They Will OWN you, lock, stock and two smoking barrels.
@@johncampbell829 you seriously think owning a car frees a man who cannot afford a place to live?
What should be available to everyone sadly is only available to the tokenist elite
Google's adventures into building and communities is interesting, but this video was pretty much perfect! Visuals, audio, content and jokes all top tier!
Thanks so much Sam!! 🙌
Google's Bizarre Adventure.
Indeed
_"Optimizes team working"_ is corp-speak for very loud soulless open offices where it's impossible to concentrate and everyone is forced to wear heavy noise-cancelling headphones all day. 😢
Facts
My mother worked at a company like that, and she says it wasn't bad as they were still required to talk quietly
@@laundrylurker3242 it was _really_ bad where I worked (one of the big US tech giants). Even worse than a sea of cubicles. An entire large floor densely packed with nearly a thousand people on small desks with absolutely no walls.
Managers would permanently book a meeting room as a de facto office to get some work done. The courtesy was not extended to lowly engineers of course.
You can tell that open floor offices are a terrible idea for productivity because every person involved in the decision to put engineers in these offices (CEOs, directors, HR, architects) never work themselves in such environments, while telling engineers that their complaints are unfounded and it's the perfect work environment. 🙄
Yeah my ears ring really badly after working in these types of offices. All the eco rubbish and eco ventilation was a load of expensive crap that didn't work. I call them converted car parks.
Thank god Covid has shut most of them down.
“Google is set to bring 4,000 new homes and some 20,000 new workers to San Jose.” That is literally going to contribute even more to the housing shortage with a ratio like that :(
Yeah, unless those google workers like to live in groups of 4-5, theres gonna be 16k too few houses.
Which is why the Bay Area has a social responsibility to allow the construction of much more housing than they currently do, pushing supercommuters 2 hours away from their workplaces. San Jose is the 10th largest city in the country, but it's utterly sad in its sprawl and car-dependency.
@Steve Acho Few things worth doing are easy.
Google and other tech companies are literally the root of the housing crisis in the area. Brings 100s of thousands of jobs with literally no homes constructed is a recipe for disaster.
That’s why they are building more housing duh
Another brilliant video. Well detailed as usual.
Ah thanks so much!!
Do NOT type Google into Google, it will break the internet.
We tried it. Internet is still there.
@@TomorrowsBuild his personal internet may be.
Be interesting to see how many people get that! Nice work.
@@TomorrowsBuild maybe this guy has the McDonald's wifi
Sorry, I already did that! Did I break something by mistake?
Many people think Apple has a monopoly but that’s only within the apple ecosystem, google has the real monopoly, everyday pretty much everyone uses at least 1 google product, everyday, from the search engine, to maps, to reviews, etc
My guy that's called oligopoly
@@lovelyhomeboy2782 'Oligopoly' is a state of limited competition, in which a market is shared by a small number of producers or sellers.
Construction and Real Estate is one of the most competitive markets out there.
Are you saying there aren't enough players in the AEC industry?
@@swaroopshankar7629 my guy I'm explaining like if a company owned alot of different businesses
@Swaroop Shankar welp looks like I learned something new
This left out the Chicago West loop office.... but west loop as a neighborhood is a whole video itself for B1M so I’ll just plant this comment here....
6:38 "Affordable" housing has a specific, strict legal meaning in CA and in the US (it is not some loosey goosey PR term), which means rents/costs are set to be affordable to a households some percentage
Everywhere is just going to be random Google buildings & Amazon fulfilment cubes in the near future...
I love that idea and I love tech companies
@@forloop7713 Bug man
@@fatstacksfatlips8708 dont forget about the living cages
Neo feudalism and great reset, you will own nothing and be happy
Facts and Facebook moderator remote jobs
Darn, I hope the Toronto project went forward but without all the concerns of data collection. Toronto really needs to be less car-centric.
'Apparently some people still do that' lol
I still do that but I cant do it on high slope
Remember when Google's moto was "Don't be evil"? It's too bad they decided to turn their back on that moto when they deleted it 3 years ago.
@Steve Acho Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet is best known for the remark, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men...", That's Google, Twitter, Microsoft, etc.
How is google evil?
@@seanthe100 its the way it is
Good afternoon Fred & Co! Keep up the great on this channel and the B1M.👍🏻
Great video. But what is Google thinking in San Jose? 4000 living spaces but 20000 new jobs? I can relate to these housing shortages my university in Amsterdam reduced the intake of students to my program by 50% because it is so tough to find housing.
with google, it will bring investors that would build more houses plus if needed google can build more on their own. Where your school have hardly that impact
Most of sj’s resident commute outside of sj. There’s a big imbalance in terms of housing vs jobs. Housing produces less in taxes. The goal is keep more residents working near where they live.
Very impressive stuff from google, but what this video tells me more is that google has such a ridiculous amount of money that they can throw at billion dollar projects like these and it barely makes a dent in their profits.
My understanding is that this building would not have affected their past or current profits. That is, my understanding is that a company cannot place an investment in stocks, bonds, or property and then declare the investment to be a business expense purely because it is no longer cash profits. Anyone know otherwise?
Its not thrown money its marketing. What they do affects their public perception
@@dosadoodle I can't speak on business expense as I'm not from this field but I think company can easily avoid that word by saying they are expanding.
Google : "You plebs, let me show you what's good for you all"
Everyone : "Yes my lord! I shall kiss thy feet"
All of their buildings look so good on the interior and exterior, as long as they don't build big ugly boxes for offices I think it's a good thing. These look like college campuses and a lot of the spaces look to have high loss factors in the square footage which usually makes for more architecturally appealing and creative feeling spaces.
And I thought their new office in London was big.
Lol
Awesome content! I am not interested in pursuing a career in construction but I still love watching your videos to learn more about how our urban world is built and what it takes to do it the right way.
The credits mention Adam Savage as the producer. Is that a coincidence, or is the famous Mythbuster actually involved?
I was wondering the same thing.
It's a giant conspiracy man. Here he publishes the myths. On his show he busts them. It's all part of the plan
I'm intrigued why a co like Google doesn't seem hampered by the effects of 'design by committee' when they clearly have a lot of big teams...🤔
There's money to be made in ad agencies it seems.
They are making some nice buildings with all that ad revenue at least.
I think the next project should be “google pipeline” from east to west so they can fill there empty lakes with flood waters form the east! Should only take them a year!! 😉
Did Google pay for you to make this video? Love the channel just curious if this is the case.
@@TomorrowsBuild Thanks for the response!
yes, RUclips pays
If you've ever seen the "Sponsored Content" episode, from Last Week Tonight, I highly encourage you to. This was a really good one.
I'm surprised more people don't see this as a glowing review of Google's work on Google's own platform and stop to question a possible relationship... More scrutiny needed. B1 does great work, and that credibility is being lent to this video, including everything it contains in the way of good words about Google. I can only hope this video by B1 gets some prime ranking in the RUclips algorithms out of this to get more eyes on all their other work. After all, "what would Google do" 🤨
napping rooms at google is not and example of "employee well being" but rather overworked employees forced to sleep at work, to meet unrealistic standards
To be honest, I'm disappointed the project in Toronto was canceled. There was too much controversy around privacy and data collection. Using the internet or owning a smartphone gives SOMEONE your information. Google's smart city would at least help improve community standards. The land earmarked for development will likely be mismanaged, poorly designed, and under-utilized.
The homes project reminds me a little of the Rowntree company in the UK, they build a whole town for the workers & both my grandparents worked & lived there their whole lives. How things have changed huh? Not sure they're going to be "affordable" in Google's version as noted in the video though.
- What's for dinner ???
- ask uncle Google
- ok
I’m a Sunnyvale native but I’ve been in LA for 34 years. My dad paid $29,000 for his house. Wrap your mind around that.
Must be 1960s. Now multiply by ×100.
Minor correction: Sunnyvale is a small city/town, not a neighborhood.
I thought it was where Buffy the vampire slayer was living....but that was Sunnydale
@Dee K California
I have not ridden a bicycle in more than a decade until I started going to the Google complex.
4,000 new homes and 20,000 workers. Lol. As a a resident of the area and a mild supporter of the project, I believe this is another example of tech getting a pass for the crippling housing environment in the bay. Talk about the proximity to Diredon but not the good graces Google has on the housing crisis they helped cause.
Well the goal should always be a balance between jobs and housing. Housing produces less revenue for cities and is a bigger drain. Ideally more people should work near where they live. Housing needs to be addressed regionally with strict quotas.
I'm glad you put "affordable" in quotes, but I wish you had done the same with "sustainable".... It, too, is a word that has a fluid definition and is often misused especially when talking about construction.
They're in California, so affordable housing is a very strict legal definition that is, indeed, affordable.
@@forgilageord but my point is about "sustainable" 🤷♂️
I worked painting the gates for Google Bay View. For some reason Google. Asked us to cover the. Very small ( near invisible) "USA" stamps in the steel.
There’s 60,000 empty homes in San Francisco now. I’m confused there is no housing shortage.
Thank you for using the metric system.
Great video! As an Ontarian I was curious what was happening to the Toronto district project.
TimTheTatMan intro music at 2:53 lol
If google really wants to help the san jose area, start lobbying to remove the single family household zoning and allow for more apartments, duplexes, and triplexes to be built. that would ease the housing issue without any need for crazy redevelopment
The future is big and its only google that can see it. This direction will not fail.
Google just bought a nice all-glass building they bought from some health insurance company in RTP
Google would do whatever gains them the most profit and influence
I work a few blocks away on Shoreline - you should look at what horrible damage they are doing to the S.F. Bay area commute by being hyper-centrally located in the south-west bay area. Nothing like sitting in 2+ hours of traffic pre-pandemic to go less than 25 miles. All those people going into the office can only do so with 4-lanes of traffic.
I argue that it is the most unethical thing to do putting 10s of thousands of people in a 5 mile square, which has immense negative impacts on the environment, job and housing markets, traffic loads, etc...
Funny how rollerblading comes in be4 scooting or skateboarding despite their relative popularities. Also love how the ground looks great in most parts, but just slightly too many big cracks to make skating there pleasurable.
affordable housing on land owned by a massive corporation does not sit will with me. lol Just pay cooperate taxes
"Affordable Housing" is a misnomer. There's evidence that price control requirements actually reduce affordability by reducing the number of units built overall.
Also, google never sells days to third parties. Ever. Why would they sell their main asset to someone else? They keep it to themselves so they can have the best ad targeting.
You will live in the google house, get on your google bike you bought off amazon and cycle to the Sunnyvale Google Campus.
Don't google have too much power and influence already .
Yes
"Corporate social responsibility"..... What a joke
At 8:40 you show the Los Angeles office. That's not near San Francisco.
Love the map of North America that labels the Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Mexico and absolutely nothing else
I always learn something new whenever i watch videos by B1M and Tomorrow's Build. 😊
Google is scary, its as powerful as several countries combined.
many countries aren't very powerful
What’s nuts is Charleston East was designed all the way back in 2016
Your google overloads will be watching you work, eat, poop, sleep, shop, breathe.
Good to see all that revenue generated from selling our data is being put to use.
At least they're investing back into communities and creating jobs in the process. Unlike those car manufacturers (GMC. Ford...) who take our money then build factories in China.
Decentralized workplaces needs to be the future. Eliminating uninhabited office space, commuting, and the need for wasteful mass transportation would go a long way to solve climate issues that destroy cities.
Thanks for quoting the Mercury News, from a reporter there! Great work
2:55 cheeky timmy tenders outro music
This makes it sound excessive and pointless until you realise that these buildings probably are used by divisions where they don't interact with each other. Android, Maps, Search, RUclips can each take a floor and practically be a different company.
B1M meets Adam Savage? Totally hooked already
Glad to discover another channel rum by the B1M team. Great presentation as usual!
New Locations seem to be in states where business is not necessarily seen as the enemy.
I'm confused a little, the map showed new officed in dallas but not Austin like the image showed, also the data center outside Charleston isn't really new it's been around for awhile now.
Charleston SC for the data center since Charleston seems to be the name of a project in California as well kek
San Jose needs google
Sad that this great Toronto city didn't happen
Great video! Oh, yeah rollerblading is still a thing.
Thanks! Haha, who knew! 😂
I knew you had to bring up the mass timber building after watching you're live zoom panel about wooden schools! I'm sure many of the additional benefits of building a school with wood such as mental benefits also apply to office buildings.
Wait, what you can Google in Google?
You've stopped watching the video to go and find out haven't you? We should have seen this coming 🤦♂️
Is google the reason wood has gotten so damn expensive?!
I don't know, but concrete and iron have doubled in the last year due to China's buying all of it. It seems inflation is arriving
What the hell do these companies need such big buildings for?
1:15 slick graphics! thought put into it
I'm glad to see they are doing something to relieve the housing shortage. One, because they're partially responsible for it, and two, they might be the only developer in CA with the resources to navigate the state's anti-building restrictions.
Apple?
@@yestermonth Yes. Apple, too.
@@booksteer7057 Amazon and a good portion of silicon Valley firms
Would you take a home in exchange for 24hrs surveillance? Just like google gives you free gmail in exchange for scanning your emails and gathering data for advertisers, I’m sure many of us would accept an apartment where your every move is collected and categorized for future ad placement
4:27 Zigzaggurat
The architecture styles of Google’s buildings are very diverse and interesting….great video!
Sounds like living in an aquarium
I have finally tasted "remote work", and I NEVER want to go back to an office environment, no matter how nice it is. It like interaction with "virtual" people better than real people it turns out.
Really well crafted video
I cycle past the Bay View campus daily. The construction has been an eye sore for YEARS. There is literally zero work going on most of the time. It seems to happen in bursts, followed by nothing going on for weeks. Also, I have seen no signs of infrastructure development outside the building perimeters either. The roof system seems impossibly complicated, time consuming, and labor intensive to construct. and there is seemingly no rhyme or reason to what parts they finish, and what parts are still nowhere near complete. I can't even imagine what Google must be spending just on BIG equipment rentals (like cranes) sitting idle for weeks or months at a time. And Google has still not fulfilled their promise to cover the giant aircraft hanger that was part of the 60 year lease deal so the CEO types can land their multi-million dollar jets at any time of the day or night. Which is technically not supposed to be allowed on a federal air field anyway. And not that I'm opposed to "green" construction, but so far every eco-friendly building I've seen go up has been a good awful place to work. The one at Moffett Field (next door to Bay View) was vacant for a long time because after NASA built it nobody could afford the required eco-friendly furnishings to fill it with. I'm not sure how terrible the HVAC is in that building now.
This seems like a future white elephant, like today’s large shopping malls.
Google will quickly dissolve once AI replaces it. How will individuals doing programming and assembling data/information compete with high speed AI?
I like the timber design. It's very modern and environmentally friendly. I love the use of all the solar panels. That's a LOT of energy savings. A lot of the things, however, look more suited to a day care than a building focused on productivity. I mean, a building where you need to walk, bike or rollerblade up to get to different floors? How about an elevator, I'm at work? Let's be real, when was the last time you wanted to get real sweaty and red faced over your lunch break? Let's hope the ball pit was just a joke because I don't know if I could ever take an adult seriously after I called him/her out of a ball pit to a meeting. But hey, Google is a multi-billion dollar company, I'm renting an apartment. Another great video though...I love every one in my own way
It’s very worrisome since Google tracks everything you do online, now they want your neighborhood? They’ll track everything...
Tomorrow's Build Pizzeria 😭
Their Landscraper Pie is to die for
Please... Women in video did inline skating...✌️
Rollerblading is another type of skating... But yes , it's far far away from buildings knowledge and understanding 😒😏
However one of the best channel here B1M including...
Down town San Jose is lovely and has wonderful parks and lots of lovely trees. You can't enjoy them quite as fully as you might like as they are filled with homeless people. I found it quite a surprise that the richest country in the world can't find a place for people to sleep other than a park. I'm not sure it will be that much better for being turned into "Googletown."
these people are parasites
We have plenty of places for the homeless to live in, let alone sleep. Tens of thousands of empty homes. But if you can't make a profit off of these human beings, nobody wants anything to do with them.
This a federal problem, if the problem was really just the Bay Area then other areas of the country should be able to house the homeless. But they can’t and they are often hostile to their presence.
Great content man
I think it's great that Google does fun buildings that are significant in architectural ways.
4,000 new homes + 20,000 new employees will make San Jose's housing shortage worse. basically, Google will force more gentrification on our city displacing poor and working class people as the rental properties these people occupy will be priced out of range and upgraded to site higher-paid Google workers. The token housing and community development Google negotiated with the city were minimal to get approval of the plan, thanks to our Mayor (now retiring) and well financed city council members. Tomorrow's Build needs to go beyond the Google PR to tell a credible story here, you fail to do that.
Im glad for once someone Critisized Google and other tech giants in generation on how everywhere they go housing become a problem. im glad you brought up the bad and not just suck off google on what they are building. good on ya.
Okay I've straight up lived in Silicon Valley for most of my life and haven't heard about some of this unit l now 😂
Fr though, dammit, Fred, you and your team have made another great video. It's great that you talked about the controversial side of what Google is doing too, since housing prices have gotten ridiculous here and it's a serious issue for local governments. (For context, the median, MEDIAN single family house in San Jose is at least 800k, probably more after bidding.) I've spoken to a lot of people living near downtown San Jose (close to where Google is doing a lot of development), and a lot of them, especially older folk who lived in the area before the tech boom, aren't too happy with all the changes Google and Apple are bringing to the area. It's creating a cultural divide of sorts between the families who've lived in this area before the 90s and the newcomers pricing out anyone who isn't a top engineer, doctor, or researcher.
A game of monopoly on a world scale with the tax sections removed from the board 😅
5:45 - Taxation alternative.
It's a shame they couldn't figure out and build that smart city, looked great.
First off, really well produced video. But this sort of action by Google and other companies is a bit scary. I don't want to live in a world where you sleep the same place you work. Also is scary that prices will be driven up to the point where an individual cannot own their own property anymore. Seems like an infringement on American life
sleeping where you work or working where you sleep?
Home office is not that bad, it all depends on the quality. You can shape your own 4 walls.
What music do you use in second half of video? I have been looking for it for a while now. Help much appreciated.