‘Meditation chambers’ at Google HQ offer a blueprint for office wellbeing ‘Meditation chambers’ at Google HQ offer a blueprint for office wellbeing Designed by Office of Things for Google’s Bay Area headquarters, the bunker-inspired meditation chambers combine technology, light and sound to create a meditative effect One of five rooms created by Office of Things for Google’s Bay Area offices, known as Amoeba, featuring a mirrored ceiling. Photography by Tom Harris Although returning to the office may still be varying widely across the board, a newly unveiled internal project at Google, known as the Immersive Spaces Series, is offering a roadmap on how to create restorative spaces in the workplace when the time does come. A work in progress since 2017, Google has been working with the American design practice, Office of Things, to design and construct five meditation chambers in the Youtube and Google offices in the Bay Area, adapted from an area of research which the practice has been investigating on its own. Conceived and designed pre-pandemic, the rooms’ philosophy of offering employees a place to acknowledge and restore their mental health could not come at a more relevant time.