Google’s landscraper to be as long as skyscraper's height

Similar to skyscrapers, Google is all set to start construction of its new headquarters that would be the longest ‘landscraper’ in the United Kingdom, overtaking the current longest Shard skyscraper.

Google revealed its plans for its new headquarters in London back in 2013. The construction of headquarters is set to begin at the King’s Cross Central. The headquarters might not be as tall as the Shard, which is 1,016 feet vertically, but they measure 1,082 feet horizontally. Thus, the project is being called as the ‘landscraper’ due to its horizontal stretch instead of vertical.

Starting construction by next year, the landscraper will be 11-storey tall while covering an area of 1 million square feet and is expected to house 7,000 employees.

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According to a futurist Amy Webb, being the first of its kind, this landscraper would become popular in other states too with growing time. “Landscrapers will create entirely new city footprints that we just haven’t seen yet in the US, and could make life easier and more realistic,” wrote First Post.

According to Business Insider, Webb believes that due to the four primary changes, landscrapers would prove to be a better technology. Firstly, because there is an increased migration from US’ denser states such as New York City to the undeveloped states like Austin, the landscrapers would be a positive decision, which can contain new technologies and economic centers for migrating people.

Secondly, the elevator technology has grown too much where cable-less elevators that can move up and down as well as right and left, can be used in navigating across the long landscrapers. Third, climate-driven weather disasters like hurricanes are becoming frequent and in future, high buildings would be at high risks considering that it can sway several feet in extreme winds.

Lastly, there has been a rise in autonomous drone technology. Companies are looking forward to use drones for transportation of goods. Webb predicts that soon the skies would be crowded with delivery drones, leading to regulating the airways, which in turn would lead to limit building heights.

“We're going to have more things flying overhead. The challenge is that the overhead airspace is not regulated, but it will wind up becoming regulated. We'll have invisible highways in the sky.”