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Main Headquarters: An aerial of Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, CA on the San Francisco Bay.Steve Proehl—Corbis
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New Building: An aerial view of Facebook's new building an expansion of its current headquarters in Menlo Park. The LEED-certified building, known as MPK 20, has a 9-acre "green roof."Matt Harnack for Facebook
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Main Headquarters: After encouragement from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to decorate their headquarters, the word "hack" was designed into the outdoor landscaping.Steve Proehl—Corbis
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New Building: The roof of the new building contains a half-mile walking loop for employees and over 400 trees.Matt Harnack for Facebook
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Main Headquarters: Buidling 10 stands on the Facebook campus.David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images
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New Building: The new Facebook building, known as MPK 20, opened this Spring.Matt Harnack for Facebook
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Main Headquarters: Facebook employees are shown on the campus below the famous sign "The Hacker Company".Jeff Chiu—AP
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New Building: The lobby of the new building is entered from the roof.Matt Harnack for Facebook
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Main Headquarters: A general view of the outdoor lunch and relaxtion area at Facebook's main campus.Robyn Beck—AFP/Getty Images
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New Building: A view of the MPK 20 roof at night, which is topped by a massive garden.Gehry Partners, LLP
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Main Headquarters: A Facebook employee works on a laptop computer at the company's headquarters.David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images
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New Building: Facebook employees took to Instagram to show off parts of their new digs, such as this artwork in the MPK 20 building.Brad Baldwin (@baldwin908) via Instagram
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Main Headquarters: A Facebook employee walks past The Facebook Wall at MPK 10.Jeff Chiu—AP
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New Building: Colorful artwork adorns many of the walls at Facebook's new building.MJ Aquino (@mjaquino) via Instagram
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Main Headquarters: The desk is staffed inside the lobby area of the main Facebook campus.David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images
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New Building: The Frank-Gehry designed staircases are designed to bring in lots of natural light, as opposed to the claustrophobic stairwells of traditional office buildings.Andrew Blotky (@andrewblotky) via Instagram
Correction appended
Facebook started in a college dorm room, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg seems to be trying to recapture the kind of spontaneous collaboration that can happen in those spaces with the social networking giant’s new building.
Dubbed by the company as the “largest open floor plan in the world,” the new 430,000-square-foot, single story facility in Menlo Park, Calif. places thousands of workers — Zuckerberg included — in a single giant room. Product teams are clustered together throughout the sprawling space, which resembles an aircraft hangar. Atop the building is a 9-acre park with walking trails and seats to host outdoor meetings.
The design of the new workspace, intended to encourage collaboration, is also supposed to reenforce Facebook’s overall mission of connecting the world. “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,” Zuckerberg said back in March when he and his employees moved in.
The building, called MPK 20 and designed by celebrated architect Frank Gehry, is a far cry from the more pedestrian office complex that used to be the base of their operations — although the company still uses that building as part of its campus. Here, we offer some comparison shots between the older and newer spaces.
Correction: The original version of this article incorrectly described the purpose of Facebook’s new facility. It is an extension of its headquarters.
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