The picutres are sourced from here: http://www.camenzindevolution.com/Works/Google/Google-Campus...

So it's possible that the captions are added by the design firm rather than Google. (If you look at office pictures from http://www.google.com/about/jobs/, the tone of the surrounding copy seems different. Though perhaps still a little corporate :)

"I'd probably shuffle off to a quiet, dimly lit corner somewhere"

That's the rest of Dublin for the majority of days.

And sorry, you can't go to a park unless you have a waterproof notebook.

But maybe you can hide in the corner of a pub or coffee shop (with Wifi) and have a pint/coffee/tea etc. With soundproof earphones you'll be fine.

>I'd probably shuffle off to a quiet, dimly lit corner somewhere with my headphones, and try to block out the intense primary colours and lack of sound insulation.

Yea I'm with you on that. I'm not opposed to having workspaces more comfortable and less mundane, but some of these offices look more like a McDonalds' playpen than a workspace to me.