The office building on Facebook Way is in the unfinished style that honors materials like plywood, concrete, and steel. The I-beams supporting its soaring walls still have the builders' chalk placement instructions on them. It takes a business making billions of high-margin dollars to make plywood and concrete seem so appealing. The merely ordinary have to put up drywall.
Facebook's spokeswoman calls its headquarters the largest single room in the world. Maybe. It feels like it, anyway. The space isn't square, so it doesn't seem pointedly vast; it's long and narrow.
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