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Here’s the ‘Very Anonymous’ Building Facebook Demanded From a Starchitect
• Wired.comThe social network this week won approval from the city council of the architectural black hole of Menlo Park, California, to proceed with building “Facebook West,” a 433,555-square-foot building across the road from its existing headquarters inside an old Sun Microsystems office complex. The vote was 4-0, which shouldn’t be surprising given that Gehry was asked for an anonymous design that blends in very well – the opposite of his usual eye-catching distinctiveness.