“ We ’re a culture of builders , ” Janelle Gale , Facebook ’s VP of Human Resouces , says in a new video promote the company ’s lavish Modern office in Menlo Park , California . Gale believes that the recently fill out piece of computer architecture accurately reflects the form of culture that Facebook has progress . We tally .
For years , Facebook hasworkedwith starchitect Frank Gehry to plan its offices around the world . On Tuesday , the social networkunveiledits freshly constructed office , MPK 21 . “ All the thing we learned doing Building 20 prepared us for Building 21 , ” Gehry say in a slickvideoincluded with a web log post about his latest masterpiece . “ We were pay back lesson in Facebook acculturation . And we ’re make believe a young form of architecture within that refinement . ”
The 89 - year - old architect is revered for buildings like theGugghenheim Bilbao , a museum designed to be as singular on the exterior as the artistic production that ’s housed on the inside . But his work for high-pitched - dollar corporate guest can lean towards concepts that seem to only be there because he can get away with it .
Being located in Northern California , it pull in a sure amount of gumption that MPK 21 incorporates sequoia trees throughout its broad open office mount .
But as you see more icon of the building , thing experience chaotic and sloppy , rather than peaceful and integrated .
Here ’s a first look inside Facebook ’s new Frank Gehry - plan officehttps://t.co/4lVfGsF59n
— Bloomberg ( @business)September 4 , 2018
Bloomberggot an in - depth peep at the building and its Department of the Interior that ’s worth check out in full . It shows off a design that ’s just drop everything at the bulwark and find out what sticks . uninfected , vibrant , of age and unfinished fabric all mix in a smorgasbord of design trends , and lines go in every guidance without any plain purpose . There are many examples of the building resemble a spile of stuff that just fell together and is hanging by a ribbon , but none are more illustrative than this :
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Yup , that ’s just , you know , the exposed frame of an office with some random table on top . Odd details likethisare find throughout the space . With caption like , “ the master corridor runs down the eye of the building , ” it ’s hard to agitate the impression that Bloomberg was just as unimpressed as we are .
Chaos is the word for it , it ’s as simple as that . And if Facebook wanted to muse its own culture and what its people work to build , chaos is the ripe glide slope . One might think it ’s a bit weird to bring out a multi - million dollar mark government agency space on the same that day that afresh exposeof its platform ’s disastrous effects in the Philippines is publish . One might retrieve it wise to hold off on bragging about the “ tremendous scale ” the building ’s auditorium offers while Facebookopinesthat it ’s just really difficult to scale - up content moderation operation in Myanmar so as to prevent racial extermination . One might think , hey , maybe you should look until tomorrow’sCongressional hearingis over before you show off this modern monstrosity . But that ’s just how Facebook rolls .
Contrast MPK 21 with Apple ’s famousspaceshipheadquarters and the contrast of corporate cultures comes into relief . Steve Jobs wasreportedlya huge restraint monster during its development , obsessing over every detail . When it opened , its glass Earth’s surface were so invisible that employee were gettinginjuredas they smacked into them . That ’s the most Apple affair ever . When Apple eject an invite with the distinctive ringing silhouette of its HQ , reporters immediately startedspeculatingwhat it might mean . Whether or not its a clue to something larger , it also definitely mean come to our building that face like this and we ’ll show you some new Apple shit . Facebook is n’t even close to have that sort of limpidity when it fare to its company . But the Apple invite formatting would still work moderately well :
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