Google on Friday filed plans at Mountain View City Hall for a translucent domed building that would rise several stories near the company's current headquarters northeast of Highway 101. Google photo

Pulling out a trump card it was sitting on for years, Google has found another way to construct the canopied, utopian campus that caught the world's attention - and then was nixed by the city - earlier this year. The search engine giant on Friday filed plans at Mountain View City Hall for a translucent domed building that would rise several stories near the company's current headquarters northeast of Highway 101, on a piece of property that was not part of its original proposal.

Even as Google earlier this month suffered what its real estate chief described as a "significant blow" when the City Council rejected most of its ambitious campus expansion, the company's hidden political calculus included yet another plan in the wings.......Continue Reading

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