Facebook pushing ahead with less flashy design for new office campus

March 30, 2013

Facebook is choosing substance over flash with the new office campus it is building across the street from its current headquarters building. The social networking service this week received the go-ahead from the City of Menlo Park, Calif., to erect the custom-built facility that it has been planning for months. Its current home is a former Sun Microsystems facility. Facebook, however, apparently wants something a bit more low key than the original design. Facebook hired world-renowned architect Frank Gehry to design the campus. He’s perhaps best known as the architect behind the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa, Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, both of which feature distinctive modern-looking metal curved faces. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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