These days move Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg into brand new headquarters in a swamp just south of San Francisco. With the exception of a rooftop garden on 36 goals, believes architect Frank Gehry building is not particularly grand.
Park Construction equivalent 5-6 football fields on the roof is so far the only truly sensational with Facebooks new offices in Menlo Park, a half hour drive south of San Francisco, in the middle of the US state of California. And we believe Frank Gehry, the Canadian architect who designed the building, it has been the intention all the way.– This is no expression of grand design. It has a solidity and rawness that reminds me of the work I did early in my career, says Gehry in a statement conveyed by Facebook.
He says that he first met Zuckerberg for just over three years ago, and that Facebook founder wanted unpretentious and cost effectively headquarters.
– He did not excessive design. It also had to be flexible to respond to that his company is constantly changing: A building that let facilitate cooperation without intruding on their open and transparent culture, says Gehry, including known for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao , The Dancing House in Prague and the brand new cultural center for the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.
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Gehry describes the building, which is called MPK 20, as a “remarkable human environment with lovely light and hues and a lovely garden on top. ” Lori Goler, which is HR Director at Facebook, comparing the park on the roof with the disused railway line High Line Park in Manhattan.
Inside, however open-plan office, as applicable.
– You can pretty much see through landscape from one standpoint, says Facebooks EVP estate, John Tenan to Wired.
Google resolution
Several technology giants of Silicon Valley plan, or are underway in construction, the new headquarters. But while Facebook does for “unpretentious”, betting Apple on spaceships, while Google will turn up giant, flexible glass tents.
For a month ago searched search engine company local authorities in Mountain View to get build new offices, if at all taken can call it offices.
The Danish architect Bjarke Ingels will “dissolve the building into a simple, transparent, ultralight membrane” according to a presentation video.
– The idea is simple. Instead of building immobile cement buildings, we create lightweight structures in blocks that can be easily moved around as we are investing in new product areas. For example, our team working with pilotless vehicles completely different office needs than our search engineers. Large, partly transparent ceilings will cover each of the areas, control the climate and let air in and out, wrote Google on his blog a month ago.
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Steve Jobs great work
One of Apple founder Steve Jobs’ hottest projects live on after his death: New headquarters in Cupertino, the neighboring town to Mountain View, designed in collaboration with architect Norman Foster.
But while Google prioritizes openness (cycle across through built), see Apple to shut themselves inside. A ring of glass enclosing a large garden with apple trees (obviously), apricot trees and fountain to the delight of the 13,000 employees as the building should be able to accommodate a future time.
The work is commenced. A drone video from autumn shows an outline of the building and park.
Norwegian = soberly
Rector Ole Gustavsen at Oslo School of Architecture and Design find it difficult to highlight Norwegian parallels the bombastic Silicon Valley offices.
– We have no tradition at all to think of the way there, he said.
– Why not?
– Modern architecture is quite popular in Norway. We have much functional, robust architecture that is noted internationally. There is more focus on jobs, use of materials, sobriety and quality in general than on the spectacular, he said.
Gustavsen predicts that climate neutrality and sobriety will affect Norwegian contemporary architecture forward.
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