First look at Facebook’s new London office

Facebook has unveiled its new office in Central London, 10 years after the social media company first came to the UK.

Designed by architectural practice Frank Gehry, the 23,000m² office is located at a newly created public square just off Oxford Street called Rathbone Square.

Spanning seven floors, the office will create 800 new jobs in the capital over the next year. More than half of the people working at the new site will focus on engineering, meaning it will be Facebook’s largest engineering hub outside of the US. It will also be home to a number of other teams, including developers, marketing and sales.