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Google barge revealed: Artistic structure with 'fish fins'
- Nicholas_C 13y ago>Exactly who is By and Large? That’s a little unclear, but it’s reported to be firmly connected to Google. Some have noted that it looks like a play on the word “barge.” I thought it was a play on the company from Wall-E?
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoSince they've apparently got sails on this thing it's even more likely to be this: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/by_and_large#Etymology http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/by_and_large#Etymology
- Nicholas_C 13y agoThe company in Wall-E is a play on this, and then the barge company was a play on the Wall-E company. Or so I thought.
- adamnemecek 13y agoWell that's somewhat underwhelming.
- AndrewKemendo 13y agoThat seems to be a trend with google now. I know that whenever I see something big and secretive happening around google I keep thinking "Is this when they are going to reveal their AGI?!" and it just turns out to be a party barge or google hangouts.
- sytelus 13y agoI wonder if this is the realization of idea for creating more space in extra ordinarily expensive SF bay area. This barge can very easily serve as new office/commercial space in the city where every inch counts. A barge of this size can accommodate roughly 500 office workers as per my rough quick and dirty back of the envelop calculation. The cost of the "land" is simply the cost of the barge which is made using recycled shipping containers. I bet this would be magnitude cheaper than cost of actual land in same nearby area.
- waterlesscloud 13y agoGood luck with that environmental impact study.
- confluence 13y agoThis is why I try and avoid speculation. A portable Google store? What a let down. Here I was imagining massive portable data centres.
- ovi256 13y agoA data center can be placed on commodity cheap land. A store has to be close to where people want to be, so on expensive real estate. The floating solution is very elegant, I hope they pull it off. Looking forward to floating boutiques all along the Seine.
- iurisilvio 13y agoAwesome! Wait for the ads there!
- krschultz 13y agoThe entire "what is that barge in the bay?" story line seems like a carefully constructed PR campaign, and I for one am opting out.
- surrealize 13y agoDoes this read like a red herring to anyone else? Some of the quoted text sounds like a google-joke: > “The artistic structure combines innovative architecture with a bit of nautical whimsy,” says the proposal, “creating a surprising environment that inspires conversation, community and ‘a-ha’ moments.”
- wil421 13y agoDo I have join Google+ to get on the barge?
- brent_noorda 13y agoAny moment I expect to hear that Google has hired Henry Winkler to jump this thing in a leather coat.