Mark Zuckerberg And Frank Gehry Are Designing Facebook’s New Offices! PHOTOS

Pioneer of Facebook and the wunderkind of Silicon Valley, mark Zuckerberg has enlisted architect Frank Gehry for the expansion of Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, near Palo Alto, California. Gehry will be creating space for more than 3,400 Facebook engineers to provide a new look to the leading social networking site as it struggles hard to maintain its dominance in the market.

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The ambitious plan which is expected to kick off in 2013 will comprise a massive open room, which will be the largest open office space in the world. The building will be topped by trees and will be connected to the main office of the company by means of an underground tunnel.

'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’,said Zuckerberg.

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The partnership can prove pivotal in providing Facebook with new talent to overcome its lagging market performance since the launch of its IPO. Indeed expectations are high for the thousands of engineers that will be a part of the new office, to develop new features to keep Facebook competitive.