{"id":3169,"date":"2018-12-06T07:41:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T13:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2018-12-06T14:31:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T20:31:35","slug":"historic-la-airplane-hangar-becomes-google-spruce-goose-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=3169","title":{"rendered":"LA Airplane Hangar Becomes Google Spruce Goose Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">American studio ZGF Architects has transformed the interior of a 1940s hangar in Los Angeles into a Google office, featuring open workspaces, elevated walkways and exposed timber beams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The office, called Google Spruce Goose, is located in Playa Vista \u2013 a neighbourhood near LAX airport. The project entailed the overhaul of a large timber-framed hangar that was constructed in 1943 by Howard Hughes, the famed businessman, film producer and pilot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Measuring 750 feet (229 metres) in length, the facility was built for the construction of the H-4 Hercules airplane, nicknamed the Spruce Goose due to its massive size and wooden structure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Click the link below for the full story and pictures!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2018\/12\/05\/google-spruce-goose-office-los-angeles-zgf\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Dezeen&amp;utm_content=Daily%20Dezeen+CID_7091d4e51834e9651ba6873e539c2264&amp;utm_source=Dezeen%20Mail&amp;utm_term=ZGF%20converts%20historic%20LA%20airplane%20hangar%20into%20Google%20Spruce%20Goose%20office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Spruce Goose Office<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The original Spruce Goose now resides in the Evergreen Aviation &amp; Space Museum in\u00a0McMinnville, Oregon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3170\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Spruce-Goose-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1053\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Spruce-Goose-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Spruce-Goose-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Spruce-Goose.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1053px) 100vw, 1053px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American studio ZGF Architects has transformed the interior of a 1940s hangar in Los Angeles into a Google office, featuring open workspaces, elevated walkways and exposed timber beams. The office, called Google Spruce Goose, is located in Playa Vista \u2013 a neighbourhood near LAX airport. The project entailed the overhaul of a large timber-framed hangar that was constructed in 1943 by Howard Hughes, the famed businessman, film producer and pilot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1039,89,868],"tags":[502,92,2659,2669,1235,2666,2665,2661,2654,2656,2663,2664,2657,2670,1714,2652,2653,250,340,2667,1880,940,2660,2662,515,2655,2671,2668,2658],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture-news","category-aviation-news","category-transportation-news","tag-airplane","tag-airport","tag-architects","tag-big","tag-california","tag-campus","tag-facility","tag-film","tag-google","tag-goose","tag-h-4","tag-h4","tag-hanger","tag-heatherwick","tag-hercules","tag-howard","tag-hughes","tag-lax","tag-los-angeles","tag-mountain","tag-office","tag-pilot","tag-playa-vista","tag-producer","tag-production","tag-spruce","tag-studio","tag-view","tag-zgf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3172,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}