Facebook's new headquarters for London and Dublin will receive the same treatment as the company's Silicon Valley campus with designs by architect Frank Gehry. The London office will take over three floors of a preexisting office space in Regents Park, giving Gehry the opportunity to redesign a renovation, while Facebook's Dublin office will be built from scratch in iconic Gehry style - both inside and out. The social media giant first linked up with Gehry last year, when they commissioned the architect to redesign their Menlo Park campus, an expansion that doubled the employee capacity. Now they have commissioned Gehry to help out with the two UK offices as the company continues to expand. Having outgrown its Covent Garden office, Facebook will have 86 thousand new offices at 10 Brock Street, an address familiar to social media as Twitter is also a tenant. The three floors will provide space for twice as many employees as the Covent Garden address, and may make some Twitter executives a little uncomfortable! Dublin employees will relocate to a new building designed by Gehry on Grand Canal Square, which will provide working space for thousand employees at an enormous 11 thousand square meters facility. While the project is still in the works and designs have not been started, it seems the Facebook/Frank Gehry partnership is going strong.

Mark Zuckerberg wired together nearly 1 billion people on the Web. Now the ambitious young entrepreneur is building another kind of community, this one out of bricks and mortar. Construction is booming along a bustling stretch that cuts through the center of Facebook Inc.'s campus in Silicon Valley, which construction started in 2011. Here the social networking giant is designing its own Main Street, putting in storefronts that will cater only to Facebook employees, whether they're in the mood for a straight-razor shave or nigiri rolls. As reported The Los Angeles Times it will be called "Zucker Burg". Unlike the days of Henry Ford and George Pullman, when industrialists built towns surrounding manufacturing operations, Facebook is bringing retail shops onto its sprawling private campus on the outskirts of Menlo Park where there are few commercial establishments other than fast-food joints. The company is subsidizing the construction; handpicked merchants will offer discounted prices to employees. High-tech superpowers such as Google Inc. and Facebook are engaged in an escalating race to pamper employees with free food and luxuries such as complimentary laundry and dry-cleaning services. But Facebook had to come up with new carrots when it moved its headquarters a few months ago to a suburban outpost at the edge of tidal mud flats and salt marshes cut off from the rest of Menlo Park by a six-lane highway.

Recently, the tech giant Facebook announced its decision to relocate its company headquarters from Palo Alto to Menlo Park, California - a move which could spur over US$ 366 million in construction spending for the region, reported constructiondigital. According to a report by research firm Brion & Associates, the US$ 250 million budgeted building project could result in an additional US$ 116 million in additional construction activity over a period of 3-4 years, and may bring up to 2,5 thousand jobs to the area. The move comes as Facebook prepares for an IPO (Initial public offering) aimed at raising up to US$ 10 billion in revenue for the social networking leader, which would bring its overall company value to over US$ 100 billion. The new headquarters would house up to 9,5 thousand employees in anticipation of coming expansions, and some predict the firm would bring almost US$ 30 million in annual spending to the region's lodging and retail markets. Facebook is planning similar expansions of its satellite facilities in New York and elsewhere as part of the lead up to the public offering - yet another way social networking is helping prop up the struggling construction industry.

Social networking site Facebook is to build its first data centre outside the United States in the northern Swedish town of Lulea, awarding an initial construction contract of US$ 121 million, reported Reuters. The data centre, set to be the largest of its kind in Europe, will take advantage of the climate in Lulea, among the coldest in Sweden, to cool tens of thousands of servers. Swedish construction group NCC said it was part of a joint venture with two U.S. companies, DPR Construction and Fortis Construction, which had won a contract of US$ 121 million for the first of three server buildings in the data centre. The data centre will be the northern most of its size on Earth. It is Facebook's first in Europe and will serve more than 800 million site users. Facebook said in a statement it chose Lulea, despite its remoteness some 1000 kilometers north of Swedish capital Stockholm, because its cold climate would be good for cooling and that it could provide environmentally friendly hydro-power. The three server buildings will have an area of 28,000 square meters each. Construction takes place in three phases and begins instantly. The first building is to be operational within a year and the entire facility is scheduled for completion by 2014.

The youngest billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook social network, and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan rent a house with a monthly payment in Palo Alto, CA near the headquarter of the famous company. Zuckerberg house was built in 2002, has an area of 353 square meters (3800 square feet), 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. Clearly, Zuckerberg can afford to build or buy the most expensive luxurious house, what really seemed to stem the move, is the location. Now, Zuckerberg lives only a few steps away from Facebook Headquarters. This surely comes in handy since he reportedly spends as much as 16 hours a day at the office and comes home only to sleep. Mark clearly does not want to change the neighborhood and prefers to live as close as possible to his "working nest", as he previously also rented a house in the same area. His previous house was smaller- only 183.5 square meters (1.976 square feet), also had 4 bathrooms, but the number of bedrooms were only 3, and besides it was much further- seven blocks away from workplace. The young billionaire even allowed Oprah's (57-year-old American billionaire actress best known for her talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show", the World's Most Powerful Celebrity on Forbes' 2010 celebrity list and the Most Influential Person in Show Business in 2009.) camera crew inside his home for an exclusive look at his modest dwelling place and office. (watch video)However, not only Zuckerberg surprises everyone with his quirks. For example, David Packard, the billionaire and co-founder of Hewlett-Packard lived and died at his 139 square meters (1,500 square feet) home also near Palo Alto. Another well-known IT-mogul Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and one of the richest people in the world, until 2006 lived in a simple three-room apartment, until he married ... That is how live people, who are fully devoted to the job they love. Thus, they are creative, gifted and happy in their own way.