Posted on 10/05/2013 9:11:08 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
At a Seattle city meeting Tuesday night, Amazon presented plans for a futuristic, greenhouse-like sphere of a building in the middle of its new Seattle campus. According to the proposal, the five-story, tri-domed structure will be large enough to accommodate mature trees, allowing employees to “work and socialize in a more natural, park-like setting.” From the plans:
In addition to a variety of workplace environments, the facility will incorporate dining, meeting and lounge spaces, as well as a variety of botanical zones modeled on montane ecologies found around the globe.
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Exactly what I watch for. Look what happened to Joseph Takagi and Nakatomi Plaza.
They’d burst Amazon’s bubble.
I’m sorry to hear that. Seattle as I remember it, was a kind of sleepy, nice place. Nothing outlandish. This sounds
outlandish. Next time we go home, I’ll have to visit Seattle. I haven’t, the last couple of times we were there.
I just went by the sites today. They are building the first two buildings between 6th and 7th avenues. The last one, between 7th and 8th avenues, is where a Toyota dealership is located. They should be out of there by the first quarter of 2015. The Amazon can come in and demo the it and then start building the third.
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