Photos: Inside Facebook's glamourous new Menlo Park headquarters

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Facebook in 2012 hired the Canadian-born Gehry to design the new building adjacent to its existing Menlo Park office, the former headquarters of Sun Microsystems.

Facebook moved into its new Frank Gehry-designed headquarters in Silicon Valley, with a rooftop park and "the largest open floor plan in the world." Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg insisted, however, that the building is "pretty simple and isn't fancy."

Facebook's new Menlo Park headquarters is one of several major projects by tech companies in the region.

Facebook in 2012 hired the Canadian-born Gehry, known for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, to design the new building adjacent to its existing Menlo Park office, the former headquarters of Sun Microsystems.

Gehry, known for his deconstructive style and buildings that sometimes appear unfinished, also designed the Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris.

To show off its new office Facebook invited top Instagrammers to capture in images the swanky new office.

Here's a look into Facebook's glamourous new Menlo Park headquarters.

Rooftop park at the new digs #shiphappens #mpk20
A photo posted by Jimmy Ahmed (@jimmy_is_here) on Apr 2, 2015 at 9:51pm PDT

Yesterday, some other Instagrammers and I had the opportunity to visit @facebook HQ and take a first look at their new building: #MPK20. It's a huge, open floor plan space designed by Frank Gehry. It looks like a fun place to work, and it opens today! Fun fact: FB worked with 15 artists on the new artwork in the building. Every piece was created onsite and is meant to speak abstractly to what FB does-many of the pieces are a nod to connections, community, networks and systems. This particular hallway makes me want an orange dessert. More photos to come. #MPK20firstlook
A photo posted by David E. Leong (@d.leong) on Mar 30, 2015 at 9:00am PDT

I got to see the new #facebook office today! #mpk20 #bayareafrenchies
A photo posted by Young Booker (@bookerthefrenchie) on Apr 3, 2015 at 12:29am PDT

#Wood #Waffle #Wall. #fullcircle #mpk20 #facebookart #facebookhq
A photo posted by brentcarlson (@brentcarlson) on Apr 2, 2015 at 9:34pm PDT

Is this a #technology company? #fullcircle #mpk20 #facebookart #facebookhq
A photo posted by brentcarlson (@brentcarlson) on Apr 2, 2015 at 9:25pm PDT

Facebook Library? #fullcircle #mpk20 #facebookart #facebookhq
A photo posted by brentcarlson (@brentcarlson) on Apr 2, 2015 at 4:42pm PDT

Look Out Tower. #fullcircle #mpk20 #facebookart #facebookhq
A photo posted by brentcarlson (@brentcarlson) on Apr 2, 2015 at 4:40pm PDT

Command Center front and center. #fullcircle #mpk20 #facebookart #facebookhq
A photo posted by brentcarlson (@brentcarlson) on Apr 2, 2015 at 4:39pm PDT

Command Center. #fullcircle #mpk20 #facebookart #facebookhq
A photo posted by brentcarlson (@brentcarlson) on Apr 2, 2015 at 4:37pm PDT

New office layout #mpk20
A photo posted by Stacey Huang (@staceyh418) on Apr 2, 2015 at 4:18pm PDT

FB's new office #mpk20 #facebook #newbuilding
A photo posted by Stacey Huang (@staceyh418) on Apr 2, 2015 at 4:17pm PDT

#facebook #MPK20 #facebookhq #sfbay
A photo posted by Suhel Sheikh (@shlshkh) on Apr 2, 2015 at 9:37am PDT

#mpk20 #facebook
A photo posted by Stephan (@francimedia) on Apr 1, 2015 at 10:35pm PDT

Will Farrell as Alex Trebek's contribution to our meeting room names. #MPK20
A photo posted by David (@bondavidsf) on Apr 1, 2015 at 5:22pm PDT

First lunch at the new Facebook campus #mpk20 #facebookbuilding20 #facebookhq #lunchatwork @cris_endo
A photo posted by Sabina (@sabinarehan) on Apr 1, 2015 at 2:04pm PDT

And it was all yellow. #facebook #mpk20 #corporateart #architecture #artspiration
A photo posted by Alissa (@alissa_isms) on Apr 1, 2015 at 12:25pm PDT

#Architecture : MPK20 Facebook's 40.000m2 new office in Menlo Park #facebook #social #network #office #mpk20 credit @d.leong
A photo posted by BKRW.COM (@bkrw__com) on Apr 1, 2015 at 8:20am PDT

When you're tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner. #MPK20firstlook
A photo posted by Alex Katzen (@thezenkat) on Mar 31, 2015 at 9:56am PDT

?????Sweet colorful princess in her castle. @elizabethgilmore blows me away CONSTANTLY with her eye for color and composition. She's also such a fun person to hang around. Liz is only one example of the awesome people I've met through Instagram. I'm continuously inspired by all the creative awesome people I've met through this community, and y'all keep me going. Y'all are so awesome. #MPK20firstlook #communityfirst
A photo posted by Cory Maryott (@coryiander) on Mar 30, 2015 at 3:25pm PDT

Yesterday evening, @facebook invited a group of Bay Area Instagrammers to come explore their new building for a first look before it opens this morning. It's one giant, beautiful room designed by famed architect Frank Gehry, and there are nine acres of open park space on the roof. Here's the crew on artist Evan Shivley's "Camp Out" tree stumps at sunset. Be sure to check out their photos to see the new space for yourself! | #MPK20firstlook
A photo posted by Jeffrey Gerson (@jeffreydgerson) on Mar 30, 2015 at 8:59am PDT