The Dymaxion Chronofile is Buckminster Fuller 's attempt to document his life as completely as possible. He created a very large scrapbook in which he documented his life from 1917 to 1983. Fuller describes his Chronofile as "[contribution] to the scientific documentation of the emergent realization of the era of accelerating-acceleration of progressive ephemeralization". The scrapbook contains copies of all correspondence, bills, notes, sketches, and clippings from newspapers. In 1960, the documents were presented by Fuller to Southern Illinois University's Morris Library where it was housed in their rare book archives. In 1999, the documents were moved to Stanford University. They are currently archived at Stanford University and are occasionally exhibited. Southern Illinois University still archive a collection of Fuller's 3D physical models. They were last displayed in the Hall of Presidents in 2023. The total collection is estimated to be 270 feet (80 m) worth of paper. This is said to be the most documented human life in history.
35-491: Fuller's Chronofile contains over 140,000 pieces of paper, as well as 64,000 feet of film, 1,500 hours of audio tape, and 300 hours of video recordings. The Chronofile is cross-referenced alphabetically using 13,500 5x8 inch index cards. Photos from Fuller's childhood from age four were added retrospectively. At a low point in his life at age 32, when considering suicide, Fuller reviewed his Chronofile to that date and concluded that he had been most effective when his efforts were on
70-657: 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 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
105-582: A PBS Frontline investigation found that McDonough's poor planning and execution of the Huangbaiyu project had doomed it to failure from the start. In 1996, McDonough became the first individual recipient of the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development. In 1999, Time called him "Hero for the Planet". In 2004, he received a National Design Award for environmental design from
140-661: A chauffeur for Benny Goodman . McDonough founded an architectural practice in New York City in 1981. He moved his practice, William McDonough + Partners, to Charlottesville, Virginia in 1994 when he accepted the position of the dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia . He served as dean until 1999 and has since been a professor of business administration and an alumni research professor. McDonough centers his work on cradle-to-cradle design,
175-793: 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, 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
210-477: A good case history of such a human being and it meant that I could not be judge of what was valid to put in or not. I must put everything in, so I started a very rigorous record. This article about a biographical or autobiographical book published in the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . William McDonough William Andrews McDonough (born February 20, 1951)
245-475: A philosophy defined in his firm's 2002 book, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things . The goal of cradle-to-cradle design is to shift thinking from doing "less bad" to being "more good". McDonough's architecture firm's designs are mostly categorized as green architecture or sustainable architecture, often using solar and passive energy efficiency techniques. This type of architecture
280-497: 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, 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
315-611: A series of manmade wetlands that process and purify the building’s stormwater. Set on 37 acres (15 ha), the 295,000 square feet (27,400 m ) building is often called the GreenHouse. He also received a commission for an environmental re-engineering of the River Rouge Plant for Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan . This project took twenty years and cost US$ 2 billion. The River Rouge Plant now includes
350-600: Is also the chief executive of McDonough Innovation, which provides consulting to global companies, organizations, and governments . McDonough's first major commission was the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Headquarters in New York City in 1984. The EDF's requirement for good indoor air quality exposed McDonough to the importance of sustainable development . Since then, William McDonough + Partners has been responsible for numerous milestones in
385-510: Is an American architect and academic. McDonough is the founding principal of William McDonough + Partners and was the dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia . He works in green and sustainable architecture , often incorporating his theory of cradle-to-cradle design . McDonough was born in Tokyo and spent most of his childhood in Hong Kong where his father
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#1732772832321420-460: 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 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
455-615: Is not known for its distinctive visual style but instead for minimizing the negative environmental impact of a building. McDonough says he aspires to design something like a tree, something that creates good, like oxygen, rather than minimizing negative impact. McDonough co-founded the Make It Right Foundation with Brad Pitt to rebuild the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans in 2007. In 2008, McDonough
490-459: Is the company's second largest square footage assemblage of Google buildings, after Google's 111 Eighth Avenue building in New York City , which 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
525-765: The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum . In 2013, Stanford University Libraries began the William McDonough "Living Archive". At the 2017 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland , he received the Fortune Award for Circular Economy Leadership for his outstanding contribution to the development of a prosperous and sustainable economy. Fortune named McDonough one of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders in 2019 in recognition of his contributions to
560-506: The NASA Ames Research Center's Sustainability Base was designed to harvest more energy than it needs to operate and cleanse its water.McDonough designed it to meet a conventional budget and tight timeline, be a test bed for NASA technologies, and exceed LEED Platinum metrics. The facility is designed to "learn"—and continuously improve—over time. In 2014, McDonough and his firm developed a master plan for Park 20|20,
595-874: The circular economy . Before the meeting, he participated in the organizing process in Geneva , when the WEF partnered with the United Nations to review climate change. McDonough was appointed chair of the forum's Meta-Council on Circular Economy in July 2014. He addressed the Arctic Circle China Forum in Shanghai in May 2019. He is a senior fellow of the Design Futures Council . He
630-585: 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 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
665-672: The Google campus at 1981 Landings Drive. They include a giant green statue of the Android logo and additional statues to represent all 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
700-554: The Googleplex. In 2013, Google leased the entire Mayfield Mall , an enclosed shopping mall that last operated in 1984 and 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
735-521: The announcement. Located in Charlottesville, Virginia, the institute builds on the 2008 California state law establishing the nation's first green chemistry program. At the January 2014 World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland , McDonough led a workshop for CEOs that was centered around sustainable design, with an added focus on cradle-to-cradle, the upcycle, and
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#1732772832321770-482: The behalf of others and resolved to focus his future work toward "all humanity". Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile inspired William McDonough to participate in his own "Living Archive". If somebody kept a very accurate record of a human being, going through the era from the Gay '90s , from a very different kind of world through the turn of the century—as far into the twentieth century as you might live. I decided to make myself
805-710: The first large-scale urban development in the Netherlands to adopt the cradle-to-cradle philosophy. After being named one of Fast Company magazine's "Masters of Design" in 2004, the same magazine followed up in 2008 with a more critical look at McDonough entitled "Green Guru Gone Wrong." Interviewing many of McDonough's former colleagues, the magazine cited his failure to have any meaningful impact with his cradle-to-cradle program, his unsustainable suburban lifestyle, and his habit of misrepresenting his professional successes. It also noted that just 160 of his planned 30,000 products were green-certified, and that he trademarked
840-557: The green building movement, being a leading proponent of the circular economy , and his efforts to redesign plastics. He was also profiled by Vanity Fair , Discover , and Time . Googleplex The Googleplex 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,
875-409: The interiors was completed by Clive Wilkinson Architects in 2005. In June 2006, Google purchased some of Silicon Graphics's properties, including 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
910-481: 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 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
945-495: The project was $ 120 million with a target opening date of 2015. NBBJ 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
980-737: The sustainable movement, such as 901 Cherry Avenue in San Bruno, California , completed in 1997 for Gap, Inc. ; it is now the headquarters for YouTube . The building features a 70,000-square-foot (6,500 m ) green roof that helps to prevent water runoff, insulates the building from noise, and provides a habitat for several species. It received the BusinessWeek / Architectural Record Design Award in 1998. Other corporate projects include buildings for Gap Inc. , Nike , and Herman Miller . The Herman Miller SQA factory in Michigan includes
1015-477: The term "cradle-to-cradle" even though it was coined by Swiss architect Walter Stahel many years beforehand. In 2008, McDonough's Huangbaiyu project was heavily covered by the press for its many design issues, including conflicts between Feng Shui and passive solar design standards, including garages although no villagers could afford cars, failing to provide space for grazing livestock, and building houses out of potentially unsafe compressed coal dust. In 2008,
1050-421: The time of installation, Google believed it to be the largest in the United States among corporations. The panels provide 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
1085-620: 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 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
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1120-628: The world's largest living roof ; the 1,100,000 square feet (100,000 m ) roof is covered with more than 10 acres (4.0 ha) of sedum . His Flow House, designed for the Make It Right Foundation in New Orleans in 2009, incorporates solar and other passive energy designs such as deep overhangs and multiple connections with exterior areas that allow for daylight and natural ventilation. It also has roof-mounted solar panels, water cisterns to harvest rainwater runoff, and rain gardens to absorb any storm runoff. Dedicated in 2012,
1155-564: Was a foreign service officer. Later, his father was a Seagram executive and his family lived in Canada and Westport, Connecticut . He says the move caused "profound culture shock". McDonough attended Dartmouth College . After graduating, he worked on the Jordan River valley redevelopment project and lived in a Bedouin tent. He studied architecture at Yale University in the mid-1970s. To fund his college education, he worked as
1190-628: Was a senior advisor and Venture Partner at VantagePoint Capital Partners , one of the largest venture capital investors in clean technology . On May 20, 2010, at Google's Googleplex , McDonough announced the launch of the Green Products Innovation Institute, a non-profit public/private collaboration which was later renamed the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. Executives from Google, Walmart, YouTube, Shaw Inc., and Herman Miller Inc. joined McDonough for
1225-564: 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 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
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