Frank Gehry's Facebook Campus Is a Whole New Kind of 'Office Park'

Rooftop garden covers single-room workspace for 3,000 people

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When Facebook hired renowned architect Frank Gehry to design an extension to its Menlo Park, Calif., campus, I think people were expecting a bigger waste of structural resources than what they got. If anything, Gehry's design is notable for its greenery—a rooftop garden completely spans the main building on the 420,000-square-foot property. The building itself will be a giant one-room workspace for almost 3,000 of the company's engineers, with hundreds of precious little nooks and shared tables and whiteboards.

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