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  • Facebook’s New Frank Gehry-Designed Office Opens Up – and Here’s What It Looks Like

    In September of 2013, Facebook broke ground on its giant new campus – the one designed by Frank Gehry. The new 433,555 sq. ft. building is expected to be filled with some 2,800 Facebook employees. It also features a giant rooftop space – a park and a garden, complete with a bunch of solar panels.

    Well, Facebook just moved in.

    Today we moved into our new Facebook building in Menlo Park, California.Our goal was to create the perfect engineering…

    Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, March 30, 2015

    “Our goal was to create the perfect engineering space for our teams to work together. We wanted our space to create the same sense of community and connection among our teams that we try to enable with our services across the world,” said Mark Zuckerberg. “The building itself is pretty simple and isn’t fancy. That’s on purpose. We want our space to feel like a work in progress. When you enter our buildings, we want you to feel how much left there is to be done in our mission to connect the world.”

    Ok, let’s see how it looks.

    There’s a rooftop teepee swing:

    And a giant rooftop park:

    Lobby 4:

    Lobby 4 #mpk20

    A photo posted by MJ Aquino (@mjaquino) on

    Oooh pretty colors:

    One last view from today: a beautiful spring day for a few walk and talk meetings overlooking San Francisco Bay. #MPK20

    A photo posted by Andrew Blotky (@andrewblotky) on

    #Facebook-kantoor #FrankGehry #SiliconValley #MPK20

    A photo posted by de Architect (@dearchitectnl) on

    Zuck was right – still a work in progress:

    Under construction #mpk20

    A photo posted by Caleb Peters (@smokmnky) on

    Image via Mark Zuckerberg

  • Facebook Building New Engineering Team In London

    If you’re anywhere near London (or have the inclination to make a move) and fancy yourself a talented engineer, you could land a job with Facebook.

    That’s because the company has just announced that they are hiring a new engineering team to be based in London.

    From a note on the Facebook Engineering page:

    London is a perfect fit for Facebook engineering – it’s a global hub, and it has a vibrant local startup community with lots of great technical talent. Our team in London will start small, focusing on building a core of great engineers, and then grow over time and eventually focus on building products in key areas like mobile and platform.

    If you’re serious about getting a job inside this new engineering office, you could always visit the London jobs page. There, we’re reminded that Facebook offers 25 yearly vacation days and 9 company holidays as well as paid baby leave and a free gym membership. Not bad.

    “Despite the size of our service – 900 million users and growing – we still push new code to the site every day. We eliminate unnecessary process and give all our engineers the opportunity to work on the things that matter most,” said London engineering team leader Philip Su. “Our engineers in London – like those in Menlo Park, New York, and Seattle – will be able to pursue great ideas and ship products quickly.”

    [Image via Engineering Like A Boss Facebook page]

  • Steve Jobs Presents Apple’s New HQ to Cupertino City Council

    Apple wants to centralize its campus and focus more on landscaping. That’s the message that came out of Steve Jobs’ presentation to the Cupertino City Council Tuesday evening. They propose to do this by building a massive office building that would expand the capacity of their centralized campus by over 400%.

    Apple’s original office park, according to Jobs, only houses around 2,600 to 2,800 people. But they’ve got “almost 12,000 people in the area.” So what have they been doing? Renting out buildings in areas that aren’t always adjacent to the original campus.

    Apple recently bought up about 150 acres in Cupertino that was once owned by Hewlett Packard. This is where Jobs is proposing that they build the new complex. In his presentation, Jobs said that the land is “kind of special to me,” citing the fact that Bill Hewett was one of his idols when he was 13.

    Jobs proposes the new Apple headquarters as one big building, housing 12,000 people. It looks awesome, to be quite honest. It’s one giant ring, with curved glass windows and tons of space in the middle for landscaping. It resembles either a spaceship or a giant metal donut. Either way, housing that many people in one centralized campus will be quite the achievement.

    Here’s what Jobs says about the new building:

    It’s a circle, so it’s curved all the way around, and if you’ve built something, you know it’s not the cheapest way to build something. There’s not a straight piece of glass on this building, and we’ve used our experience making retail buildings, and we know how to make the biggest pieces of glass in the world, for architectural use – and we want to make the glass specifically for this building here. We can make it curved all the way around the building. It’s pretty cool.

    Today, about 20% of the space is landscaping, most of it is big asphalt parking lots. We want to completely change this and make 80% of it landscaping. And the way we’re going to do this – we’re going to put most of the parking underground. And you can see what we have in mind. Today there are 37-hundred trees on the property, we’d like to almost double that.

    Also, here’s the entire video of the presentation, complete with council-member questions at the end. They seem enthusiastic about the venture. The slides of the proposed campus start around the 5 minute mark: