A virtual visit to Google’s new Tel Aviv headquarter

At the end of December 2012, Google Israel has opened its spectacular new 8’000 m2 offices in Tel Aviv for their ever growing teams of engineers, sales and marketing.

Designed by Swiss Design Team Camenzind Evolution, in collaboration with Israeli Design Teams Setter Architects and Studio Yaron Tal, the new Google office now occupies 8 floors in the prestigious Electra Tower in Central Tel Aviv, with breath taking views across the whole city and the sea.
A virtual visit to Google’s new Tel Aviv headquarter
A virtual visit to Google’s new Tel Aviv headquarter
A virtual visit to Google’s new Tel Aviv headquarter
A virtual visit to Google’s new Tel Aviv headquarter

Being in Israel, for lunch the Googlers can choose from three amazing restaurants, for kosher, non-kosher dairy and non kosher meat, each of the restaurants designed to its  own style and theme.

Only 7 of the 8 rented floors in Electra Tower are actually occupied by Google. The remaining floor gives space to a new ‘Campus’, which was also opened in December by the Israeli Prime Minister. The ‘Campus Tel Aviv’, powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, is a new hub for entrepreneurs and developers, providing a base for start-up companies, and is only the second Google ‘Campus’ worldwide.
A virtual visit to Google’s new Tel Aviv headquarter
A virtual visit to Google’s new Tel Aviv headquarter

Each floor was designed with a different aspect of the local identity in mind, illustrating the diversity of Israelas a country and nation. Each of the themes were selected by a local group of Googlers, who also assisted in the interpretation of those chosen ideas.

A virtual visit to Google’s new Tel Aviv headquarter

Sustainability played a vital role to Google in the development of their new Tel Aviv offices and the project is currently awaiting LEED ‘Platinum’ certification, the first of its category inIsrael.

A virtual visit to Google’s new Tel Aviv headquarter

There is clear separation between the employees traditional desk based work environment and those communication areas, granting privacy and focus when required for desk based individual working and spaces for collaboration and sharing ideas.

A virtual visit to Google’s new Tel Aviv headquarter
Photos by Itay Sikolski
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