Google Unveils Plans For A New Futuristic Campus That Could Be Moved Around And Reconfigured Like Lego Bricks

 Google has submitted a proposal to demolish parts of its Mountain View campus and replace it with series of futuristic airy, space-age building that can be moved around reconfigured like Lego bricks.

The campus plan has been designed by by Heatherwick Studio of London and the Bjarke Ingels Group of Denmark. However, the plan is just a proposal, one of several that were submitted to Mountain View's planning department as part of a long-running redevelopment effort.

According to Transwestern, a commercial real estate brokerage, Google owns/leases about 7.3 million square feet of office space in Mountain View.

"To build the new headquarters, for which Google would act as its own developer, the company would tear down many of the buildings it currently occupies and replace them with newer, taller structures. It would also tie four disconnected sites together while adding 2.5 million square feet, or about as much office space as there is in the Empire State Building," NYT reports.

Google notes that each building will have several glass enclosures that can be moved around "like furniture."

"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," the company wrote in a blog post. "Large translucent canopies will cover each site, controlling the climate inside yet letting in light and air. With trees, landscaping, cafes and bike paths weaving through these structures, we aim to blur the distinction between our buildings and nature."