Facebook’s first custom-built campus to be designed by Frank Gehry
On Friday, social network Facebook revealed that it has plans underway for a massive new Menlo Park campus annex; and that for designing the company's first custom-made campus, it has commissioned world-famous architect Frank Gehry.
With Gehry already having won acclaim for his designing of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa, Spain, as well as Los Angeles' Walt Disney Concert Hall, the opportunity to design new campus for Facebook will further enable the architect, and the social networking company itself, to make a distinct mark on Silicon Valley.
According to the information shared by Facebook, which currently occupies a campus that earlier housed Sun Microsystems, the campus which will be designed by Gehry would be the company's first customized campus. Facebook will submit the plans for the campus site to local city officials on Monday, for their approval.
As per Facebook, the custom-built campus will accommodate as many as 3,400 engineers in one single building with reconfigurable work. The building will also boast a meeting area, and will have a garden around it that will extend to cover the whole roof of the structure.
Revealing that along with the garden on the entire roof of the building, a number of cafes as well as a restaurant will be spread all around the new campus, Facebook spokesman Slater Tow said that the custom-built campus of the social network will be "almost an engineering paradise."