Facebook Tells Architect Frank Gehry to Tone it Down
Facebook's second campus in Menlo Park will be designed by Frank Gehry, the architect who designs impressive, jagged structures like the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. City officials have already given the 433,555-square-foot building the green light. But Gehry's creative partner Craig Webb told Mercury News that Facebook is looking for a design that's less Gehr-ish than the others.
Facebook’s second campus in Menlo Park will be designed by Frank Gehry, the architect who designs impressive, jagged structures like the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
City officials have already given the 433,555-square-foot building the green light. But Gehry’s creative partner Craig Webb told Mercury News that Facebook is looking for a design that’s less Gehr-ish than the others.
“‘They felt some of those things were too flashy and not in keeping with the kind of the culture of Facebook, so they asked us to make it more anonymous,’ Webb said.’Frank
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