Last week, Google released new renderings of the campus it plans to build in Mountain View, California. But not everyone is enamored with the design.
Edwin Heathcote, an architecture critic at the Financial Times, published a scathing critique of the campus this week, saying that "the designs for Google's huge new Mountain View HQ look oddly like a vision of the future from somewhere in the past."
The campus was designed by star architects Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick. The renderings show an incredibly futuristic construction made up of translucent canopies and modules that can be changed to adjust the buildings' layout. The images also promise an adaptable environment with lots of light, bike paths, and even retail opportunities for local businesses.
Heathcote compares the architecture to various sci-fi cliches, like glass biodomes and alien settlements.
He then compares the Google HQ to the tech campus depicted in Dave Eggers' dystopian novel "The Circle," which Heathcote says is a "'Truman Show'-style nightmare of total surveillance."
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