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Frank Gehry tops Facebook HQ expansion with a 3.6-acre rooftop park

Facebook recently unveiled a peek inside MPK 21, its newest campus building designed by Frank Gehry and built in...

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Solar-powered home takes advantage of Silicon Valley’s mild climate

San Francisco-based architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson recently completed the Los Altos Residence, a modernist...

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Intuit’s new green-roofed campus is an indoor/outdoor dream office

Intuit’s new Marine Way Building (MWB) in Mountain View, California, aims to become an antidote to the trend...

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Swooping rooflines make this proposed Silicon Valley home a sculptural work of art

Cambridge-based design studio WOJR has proposed an unusual Silicon Valley home that stands out from the pack with...

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Charred timber home perched above Silicon Valley takes cues from nature

High above Silicon Valley sits a striking home with a two-story volume clad in blackened cedar. Schwartz and Architecture...

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Classic Eichler gets a tasteful renovation and expansion in the heart of Silicon Valley

Klopf Architecture has refurbished and expanded a classic Eichler home in the San Mateo highlands while keeping...

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Remodeled Eichler house is an oasis of calm in the heart of Silicon Valley

The experts behind remodeling classic Eichler homes have done it again. This time, Klopf Architecture applied their...

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Elon Musk is heading to Trump Tower with other tech executives

Some of the brightest and most powerful minds in technology will converge on Trump Tower this week for a meeting...

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Net-zero Silicon Valley office prioritizes water conservation in drought-stricken California

A Silicon Valley office building that produces all the energy it needs on-site is a leading example of smarter,...

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Is this art? Photos capture moments when humans and light interact

All of the exhibition’s 20 installations are nature-themed and the most striking of them are those which respond...

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Moffett Place High Garden is a one of Silicon Valley’s largest rooftop parks

The park is one of the central amenities to the Moffett Place campus, which was recently leased to Google as the...

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Mid-century home by Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice receives an earth-friendly upgrade

The home originally featured walls made of exposed concrete block, which were largely covered up to give an updated...

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Googleplex designer’s sky offices above London would suck people up from their homes

Clive Wilkinson, who design the original Googleplex, came up with a quirky design that puts a satirical spin on...

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Jaw-dropping scale of Apple’s spaceship campus revealed in new drone footage

Designed by Fosters + Partners, the donut-shaped building will serve as the new headquarters for the US tech juggernaut....

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World’s largest green roof unveiled in the heart of Silicon Valley

The Hills at Vallco’s crown jewel is without a doubt its $3 million 30-acre green roof, an unprecedented engineering...

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VIDEO: Google’s new California headquarters is a greenhouse utopia by BIG and Heatherwick

Earlier in the week, we brought you news that Heatherwick Studio and BIG are collaborating on the design of Google's...

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BIG and Heatherwick Studio to design Google’s new Mountain View HQ

Heatherwick Studio and the Bjarke Ingels Group just announced plans to collaborate on Google's new headquarters....

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Can Ford’s new Palo Alto research center make self-driving cars accessible to everyone?

It looks like Ford is making a big leap into the autonomous vehicle game, as the automaker recently announced...

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Nissan and NASA team up to build autonomous cars for use in space

Nissan and NASA have inked a new partnership to further research autonomous vehicles that could be used not only...

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Sewage Water: Silicon Valley’s Answer to California’s Deepening Drought

In response to California's deepening drought, officials are turning to transforming sewage into potable water....

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Have You Seen the 19th Century Log Cabins Twitter Installed at its San Francisco Headquarters?

Photo: Mark McBride's Twitter feed Employees at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters now have a chance to...

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Lush Green Roof Terrace Crowns LEED Platinum-Seeking Office in Silicon Valley

The tech giants of Silicon Valley are no strangers to sustainable design, and brick's recently completed office...

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New Palo Alto Building Code Requires Wiring for Electric Cars

A big hurdle facing potential electric vehicle owners is installing the equipment to charge their new car at home....

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Plant-Based Egg Substitute Backed by Bill Gates Goes on Sale at Whole Foods

Tech giants Peter Thiel and Bill Gates introduced a revolutionary new product to the public this week, and it had...

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City of Palo Alto, California to Switch to 100% Renewable Energy Sources

Photo via Shutterstock This week the city council in Palo Alto, California voted in favor of sourcing all...

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Teenager Develops Program to Feed Thousands of Hungry People in California

Photo via Shutterstock When considering the affluent neighborhoods of Silicon Valley, few expect there to be...

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Brooklyn Tech Triangle Plan Could Re-Create Silicon Valley in NYC

Move over Silicon Valley. New York City - currently the second leading tech hub in the nation - could soon climb...

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San Francisco to Launch Bike-Sharing Pilot Program this Summer

When transit watchers look back on 2013, they'll remember it as the year of the bike share. Last month, the country...

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Google Announces Renewable Energy Data Center Plan

Photo via Shutterstock Google has long been at the forefront of technological advancement, and now the Silicon...

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NBBJ Unveils Samsung’s New Garden-Filled San Jose Campus That Could Rival Them All

Samsung's new campus will expand the company's existing US reach and set it on a more level playing field with...

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