Frank Gehry designs new Facebook headquarters
Posted in: Dezeen Wire, Frank Gehry, technology companiesDezeen Wire: architect Frank Gehry is designing the new campus for social media giant Facebook, which claims it will be the largest open-plan office in the world.
The building will accommodate 3400 engineers underneath a green roof on the edge of San Francisco Bay and construction could begin early next year.
“I’m excited to work with Frank Gehry to design our new campus,” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg posted on his own Facebook timeline. “The idea is to make the perfect engineering space: one giant room that fits thousands of people, all close enough to collaborate together. It will be the largest open floor plan in the world, but it will also have plenty of private, quiet spaces as well.”
“The roof of the building will be a park that blends into the community with a long walking trail, a field and lots of places to sit. From the outside it will appear as if you’re looking at a hill in nature.”
See Facebook’s Palo Alto offices designed by Studio O+A in 2009 in our earlier story and see all our stories about Frank Gehry here.
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