Facebook is preparing for a major expansion of its headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
Across the street from its current campus, it's going to construct a Frank Gehry designed headquarters. Facebook got the go-ahead from Menlo Park this week to build.
Gehry is known for his wild, sweeping architecture. With Facebook being a hip tech company, one might suspect we're going to see a big crazy look. We're not.
Facebook wanted something more subdued, notes Ryan Tate at Wired.
Here are some models and drawings which give an idea of Facebook's new home.
Here's the site. Right now it's undeveloped former industrial land. Environmental remediation starts in two weeks.
Zuckerberg wanted the space to be one big, open building.
But a long, rectangular space would feel oppressive. So Gehry proposed angling the walls to create a more human sense of scale.
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