It was always interesting to me that their plans never showed anything there, it just showed a big field," he told the paper.
Google still requires more than one million square feet (93,000 square metres) of space to build a campus of the size originally planned. It recently filed an appeal for councillors to reconsider the smallest of its rejected sites, on the grounds that it will not increase traffic volume.
Google has been based in Mountain View, just outside San Francisco, for the last 15 years. In an interview with Dezeen, Bjarke Ingels said its new campus will set an industry standard for workplace design and help define "Google 2.0".