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29-642: The University of Washington Bothell ( UW Bothell ) is a campus of the University of Washington , located in Bothell, Washington . It was founded in 1989 and is one of the three campuses of the University of Washington, alongside the Seattle and Tacoma campuses. It is located just northwest of the junction of Interstate 405 and State Route 522 , and shares its campus with Cascadia College . University of Washington Bothell

58-487: A bowling alley, massage rooms, organic gardens, and eighteen cafeterias with diverse menus. Google installed replicas of SpaceShipOne and a dinosaur skeleton. Since 2017, solar panels cover the rooftops of eight buildings and two solar carports, capable of producing 1.6 megawatts of electricity. At the time of installation, Google believed it to be the largest in the United States among corporations. The panels provide

87-658: A few blocks away. In September 2023, Google announced the Google Visitor Experience, a visitor center next to the Googleplex which occupies the building formerly known as Charleston East, and now known as Gradient Canopy. The visitor center includes a Google Store , a public plaza, a café, and public art, and opened on October 12, 2023. The Googleplex is located between Charleston Road, Amphitheatre Parkway, and Shoreline Boulevard in north Mountain View, California , close to

116-638: A regional shopping mall. Dr. Warren Buck III was appointed the university's first chancellor in July 1999 and served until June 2005. Over the course of his chancellorship, he oversaw the university's transition into a four-year institution and the establishment of its permanent campus in 2000. UW Bothell currently offers 33 undergraduate degrees , 21 undergraduate minors , and fifteen Master's degrees among five schools: UW Bothell enrolls nearly 6000 students in 55 undergraduate programs and graduate degree programs. UW Bothell began accepting freshmen in autumn 2006 and

145-555: Is a collection of buildings and grounds that belong to a given institution, either academic or non-academic. Examples include the Googleplex and Apple Park . The word derives from a Latin word for "field" and was first used to describe the large field adjacent Nassau Hall of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University ) in 1774. The field separated Princeton from the small nearby town. Some other American colleges later adopted

174-522: Is the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc . It is located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California . The original complex, with 2 million square feet (190,000 square meters) of office space, is the company's second largest square footage assemblage of Google buildings, after Google's 111 Eighth Avenue building in New York City , which

203-585: The Computer History Museum , and Century Theatres . Moffett Field is nearby to the east. Google in its 2012-year-end annual report said it had 3.5 million square feet of office space in Mountain View. Google has another large campus in Mountain View dubbed "The Quad" at 399 North Whisman Road about 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the Googleplex. In 2013, Google leased the entire Mayfield Mall , an enclosed shopping mall that last operated in 1984 and

232-658: The Shoreline Park wetlands . Employees living in San Francisco, the East Bay, or South Bay may take a free Wi-Fi -enabled Google shuttle to and from work. The shuttles are powered by a fuel blend of 95% petroleum diesel and 5% biodiesel and have the latest emissions reduction technology. To the north lies the Shoreline Amphitheatre and Intuit , and to the south lies Microsoft 's Silicon Valley research complex,

261-452: The 20th century, with the old meaning persisting into the 1950s in some places. In the early 1990s the term began to be used to describe a company's office building complex, most notably when Apple 's Infinite Loop campus was first built, which at the time was exclusively for research and development. The Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington , is another example of this usage, although it

290-581: The 42-acre (17-hectare) site. Google planned in 2015 a 60-acre (24-hectare) addition designed by Heatherwick Studio and Bjarke Ingels in North Bayshore. The site, however, was granted to LinkedIn by the city councilors and the Google project was revised in 2016, with 3 buildings to be built on 2 different sites east of Googleplex in Mountain View: one immediately next to Googleplex, and the two smaller ones

319-451: The Googleplex, for $ 319 million. Because the buildings are of relatively low height, the complex sprawls out over a large area of land. The interior of the headquarters is furnished with items like shade lamps and giant rubber balls and the lobby contains a piano and a projection of current live Google search queries. Facilities include free laundry rooms (Buildings 40, 42 & CL3), two small swimming pools, multiple sand volleyball courts,

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348-566: The SGI project was a significant departure from typical corporate campuses and which challenged conventional thinking about private and public space, and awarded the project the ASLA Centennial Medallion in 1999. The former SGI facilities were leased by Google beginning in 2003. A redesign of the interiors was completed by Clive Wilkinson Architects in 2005. In June 2006, Google purchased some of Silicon Graphics's properties, including

377-574: The Wetland restoration project met its 10-year objectives. The wetland is also an area for education. Over 30 courses from First-Year Programs, the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, the School of Business, and the School of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) have visited the restored wetland. 47°45′34″N 122°11′28″W  /  47.75944°N 122.19111°W  / 47.75944; -122.19111 Campus A modern campus

406-445: The campus of Princeton University or arranged in a version of the cloister reflecting American values, such as Harvard's. Both the campus designs and the architecture of colleges throughout the country have evolved in response to trends in the broader world, with most representing several different contemporary and historical styles and arrangements. The meaning expanded to include the whole university institutional property during

435-495: The company bought in 2010. "Googleplex" is a portmanteau of Google and complex (meaning a complex of buildings ) and a reference to googolplex , the name given to the large number 10 , or 10 . The site was previously occupied by Silicon Graphics (SGI). The office space and corporate campus is located within a larger 26-acre (11-hectare) site that contains Charleston Park, a 5-acre (2-hectare) public park; improved access to Permanente Creek; and public roads that connect

464-582: The corporate site to Shoreline Park and the Bay Trail. The project, launched in 1994, was built on the site of one of the few working farms in the area and was city owned at the time (identified as "Farmer's Field" in the planning documents). It was a creative collaboration between SGI, StUDIOS Architecture, SWA Group, and the Planning and Community Development Agency of the City of Mountain View, California . The objective

493-596: The first class to finish all four years at UW Bothell graduated in June 2010. An agreement with the City of Bothell limits UW Bothell and Cascadia College enrollment. The enrollment limit is currently 10,000 FTE students. Initially, enrollment was limited to 3,000 FTE students until an entrance was built with direct access to State Route 522 . The Washington State Department of Transportation completed this project in September 2009. The overall undergraduate admission rate for 2020

522-505: The importance of the setting to academic life later migrated to America, and early colonial educational institutions were based on the Scottish and English collegiate system. The campus evolved from the cloistered model in Europe to a diverse set of independent styles in the United States. Early colonial colleges were all built in proprietary styles, with some contained in single buildings, such as

551-483: The power for 30% of the peak electricity demand in their solar-powered buildings. Four 100 kW Bloom Energy Servers were shipped to Google in July 2008, as the first customer of Bloom Energy. The Android lawn statues were outside of Building 44 on Charleston Road, and were relocated on the Google campus at 1981 Landings Drive. They include a giant green statue of the Android logo and additional statues to represent all

580-540: The versions of the Android operating system. In 2013, construction began on a new 1.1-million-square-foot (100,000-square-meter) campus dubbed "Bay View", adjoining the original campus on 42 acres (17 ha) leased from the NASA Ames Research Center and overlooking San Francisco Bay at Moffett Federal Airfield . The estimated cost of the project was $ 120 million with a target opening date of 2015. NBBJ

609-445: The watershed to sawmills located around Lake Washington. The complex ecological restoration project for the wetlands began in 1997 along with the construction of University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia College campus. The goal of this project was to restore the area within the surrounding urban watershed into a sustainable and fully functional floodplain ecosystem . To manage and ensure forthcoming sustainability, great detail

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638-414: The word to describe individual fields at their own institutions, but "campus" did not yet describe the whole university property. A school might have one space called a campus, another called a field, and still another called a yard. The tradition of a campus began with the medieval European universities where the students and teachers lived and worked together in a cloistered environment. The notion of

667-488: Was 74%, but admission to the university's Computer Science & Software Engineering (CSSE) program is highly competitive. UW Bothell is home to one of the largest wetland restoration projects on the West Coast , covering 58 acres (23 ha). Prior to the restoration of the wetlands, the land had been used for cattle grazing. Before this North Creek was straightened and confined to transport timber from upper areas of

696-604: Was built in the 1980s, before the term was applied to company property. In the 21st century, hospitals and even airports sometimes use the term to describe the territory of their respective facilities. The word campus has also been applied to European universities, although some such institutions (in particular, "ancient" universities such as Bologna , Padua , Oxford and Cambridge ) are characterized by ownership of individual buildings in university town -like urban settings rather than sprawling park-like lawns in which buildings are placed. Googleplex The Googleplex

725-479: Was founded in 1989 when it was granted the approval of the Washington state legislature. The university began with a staff of 12 faculty members and a class of 143 students. Its first classes were held in fall 1990, and its first graduating class ⁠— of three students ⁠— completed their degrees in 1991. The permanent campus was built in the 1990s on a 115-acre (47 ha) cattle ranch that had been previously proposed for

754-406: Was given to essential theories of ecosystem science and ecological restoration in the design and implementation of the site. The hydrology was restored; drainage ditches and dikes were filled or removed. Small topographic variations were added to encourage environmental diversity and multiple plant communities. Between 1998 and 2002, over 100,000 plants were planted. Seven years after initial planting,

783-404: Was leased by Hewlett-Packard from 1986 to 2002. The semi-secret Google X Lab , which is the development lab for items such as Google Glass , is located in "ordinary two-story red-brick buildings" about 1 ⁄ 2 mile (800 meters) from the Googleplex. It has a "burbling fountain out front and rows of company-issued bikes, which employees use to shuttle to the main campus." The Googleplex

812-572: Was the architect and this was the first time Google has designed its own buildings. The addition is off the northeast corner of the complex, by the Stevens Creek Nature Study Area and Shoreline Park . Before announcing the construction, Google, through its internal real estate firm, Planetary Ventures, sought permission from the City of Mountain View to build bridges over the adjacent Stevens Creek . Google's 2012 year-end annual report noted it can develop only 7 acres (2.8 ha) of

841-400: Was to develop in complementary fashion the privately owned corporate headquarters and adjoining public greenspace. Key design decisions placed parking for nearly 2000 cars underground, enabling SWA to integrate the two open spaces with water features, shallow pools, fountains, pathways, and plazas. The project was completed in 1997. The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) noted that

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