Facebook Going To Open Second Campus Across From The Original In Menlo Park

Facebook has obtained Menlo Park's permission to build a second campus near its other campus across the road in Menlo Park, Cali.

"Congratulations," Mayor Peter Ohtaki told Facebook officials Tuesday night when the city council, with Catherine Carlton absent, voted 4-0 to allow the social network company to proceed with its plans, Mercury News reported.

According to Mercury News, the company intends to construct an exceptionally long 433,555-square-foot building designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry that features a rooftop park along 22-acres of land.

Gehry's architectural works consists of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Span, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Dancing Hall in Prague, the Tower at 8 Spruce Street in Manhattan and more. His unique, standout work grabs the attention of any one walking by. Now, he takes his turn with the world's most popular social network.

"I feel very lucky that we'll have a Frank Gehry building here," Council Member Kirsten Keith told Mercury News. "Frank (Gehry) was quite willing to tone down some of the expression of architecture in the building. They felt some of those things were too flashy and not in keeping with the kind of the culture of Facebook, so they asked us to make it more anonymous."

With offices built above a surface-level parking lot, the complex will rise to 73 feet in some spots, though most of it will be about 45 feet high, said Rachel Grossman, an associate city planner.

The campus will include a park-like entrance, which will be open to the public. There will also be a tunnel beneath Bayfront Expressway, which will connect Facebook's two campuses.