揭祕谷歌夢幻新總部
Google is planning a futuristic campus that it hopes will live up to its innovative image.
谷歌正在規劃設計一個充滿未來感的園區，該公司希望它能夠彰顯其銳意創新的形象。Renderings, submitted to the Internet giant’s hometown of Mountain View, Calif., show office buildings enclosed in tents of glass that look like undulating greenhouses. Office walls are designed to be adjustable so that they can be moved like furniture depending on the company’s needs.
根據設計公司提交給這家總部位於加州山景城的互聯網巨頭的效果圖，這棟辦公大樓被包裹在外形宛如波浪形溫室的玻璃帳篷之中。辦公室的牆體可以基於該公司的需要，像傢俱那樣任意調整搬動。
“Instead of constructing immoveable concrete buildings, we’ll create lightweight block-like structures which can be moved around easily as we invest in new product areas,” David Radcliffe, Google’s vice president of real estate, said in a blog post Friday. “Large translucent canopies will cover each site, controlling the climate inside yet letting in light and air.”
上週五，谷歌公司房地產事務副總裁戴維o拉德克里夫在一篇博文中寫道：“我們不是要建造無法移動的混凝土建築，而是要打造輕量化的塊狀建築，當我們投資新產品領域時，它們能方便地搬來搬去。龐大的透明天棚將籠罩每個區域，它們既能控制室內氣候，又能保證光線和通風。”
The sci-fi campus is Google’s effort to get some elbow room as it continues to rapidly expand while creating more pizazz for its headquarters. The company has nearly 15,000 workers in Mountain View spread across a hodgepodge of dozens of low slung corporate buildings that are if anything, undistinguished.
隨着谷歌繼續高歌猛進，這家科技巨頭需要打造一個更富魅力的總部，而這個充滿科幻感的園區正是谷歌爲獲得一些額外辦公空間所做的努力。目前在山景城工作的近1.5萬名谷歌員工被分散在數座低矮的辦公樓裏，這些樓大同小異，缺乏辨識度。But the plans are apt to generate opposition from locals who are already grappling with traffic gridlock and fear environmental damage to nearby San Francisco Bay wetlands. Mountain View’s City Council will have to weigh the concerns against the possibility of losing jobs to neighboring cities.
但這項計劃很可能會遭到當地居民的反對。嚴重的交通堵塞已經讓他們苦惱不堪，他們還擔心附近的舊金山灣溼地受到破壞。山景城市議會將不得不權衡這些疑慮與工作崗位流失到臨近城市的可能性。In a slick presentation of images and a video, Google GOOG 2.32% cast the new offices as a way to reduce street congestion and suburban sprawl. The company said that the remade campus would free up room for more nature by freeing up space currently used for parking lots.
在一段製作精美的視頻中，谷歌將新辦公區描繪爲減少交通擁堵、遏制城區擴張的可行之道。該公司稱，全新辦公區將空出目前的停車場，把更多空間還給大自然。
