Huddle

The story of Huddle

Huddle stands within the Android lawn statues, a series of large foam statues near the Googleplex in Mountain View. The piece you are looking at belongs to a setting that was built around Google’s Android mobile operating system, with each new version once getting its own statue. Google ended that tradition in 2019 with Android 10, so the statues here mark the earlier run of dessert-named Android releases.

The neighbourhood around you is Mountain View in Santa Clara County, California, part of the San Francisco Bay Area. That matters mainly because these statues sit right by Google’s headquarters, so this is one of the more recognizable corporate-landmark stops in the area.

What to look for here is the scale and the playful, branded approach: these are not single freestanding monuments, but large foam figures arranged as part of a set. Since Huddle itself has no separate account, the best way to read it is as one piece in that Android display, tied to a specific version tradition rather than to a separate historical event.

If you want the clearest context, step back and take in the whole installation rather than only this one figure.