A hulking 1930s freight terminal on Manhattan’s West Side has joined a timber-framed airplane hangar in Los Angeles, an Irish flour mill, and a historic pier, also in Manhattan, as the latest Google office complex to repurpose and give new luster to an already-remarkable existing building.
Officially debuting earlier this week, Google’s 1.3-million square foot St. John’s Terminal building—new North American headquarters for the tech behemoth’s Global Business Operation—is also a significant upwards expansion. The ambitious adaptive reuse project adds a total of nine new floors of office and communal space to the original three stories of a sprawling existing podium: a brick-clad structure completed in 1934 by the New York Central Railroad that served as the southern terminus for a long-defunct elevated freight line that once ran along Manhattan’s West Side (famously reincarnated as the High Line).
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