Frank Gehry designing new Facebook campus

"Facebook just announced that Frank Gehry of Gehry Partners, known for the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum and Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall, will design a new 3,400 employee engineering campus connected to its current HQ by an underground tunnel. " 

As I have read it basically will consist on a large office that will be broken up by conference rooms and break-away spaces, with a parking structure underneath. 

I'm glad that Facebook's growth is leading the rest of the world to know a little bit more about architecture and the way architects work. 

In Zuckerberg words:

"I’m excited to work with Frank Gehry to design our new campus. The idea is to make the perfect engineering space: one giant room that fits thousands of people, all close enough to collaborate together. It will be the largest open floor plan in the world, but it will also have plenty of private, quiet spaces as well. The roof of the building will be a park that blends into the community with a long walking trail, a field and lots of places to sit. From the outside it will appear as if you’re looking at a hill in nature.

…we expect working with Frank Gehry will actually save us money. Many development projects like this waste 30% or more of the materials due to poor planning, but Gehry uses a software-based design process to plan more precisely and efficiently. His buildings have a reputation for coming in on time and on budget. So we expect this building to be incredible and not particularly expensive."

Here are some pictures of Frank Gehry and Mark Zuckerberg dealing with the project and the project itself.