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06-30-2016, 12:45 AM
Does Amazon own Seattle?
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Walk down Seventh Avenue in downtown Seattle and you can't miss them: Three gigantic spheres resembling melted-together Milk Duds rising in the shadow of Amazon’s new 500-foot-tall ****** tower.*
The architectural oddity has already become a tourist attraction and social media phe**me**n. Passersby snap photographs and watch construction crews attach glass panes to the steel frames. Images stream through Instagram and Twitter.
When they open in 2018, the 100-foot-tall orbs—Amazon calls them Biospheres—will host more than 300 plant species from around the world, creating what the company sees as the workplace of the future. Amazonians will be able to break from their daily labors to walk amid the greenery along suspension bridges and climb into meeting spaces resembling bird nests perched in mature trees, where the company expects them to brainstorm—and perhaps even invent the next billion-dollar opportunity. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/29/amazon-seattle-swallowed/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Walk down Seventh Avenue in downtown Seattle and you can't miss them: Three gigantic spheres resembling melted-together Milk Duds rising in the shadow of Amazon’s new 500-foot-tall ****** tower.*
The architectural oddity has already become a tourist attraction and social media phe**me**n. Passersby snap photographs and watch construction crews attach glass panes to the steel frames. Images stream through Instagram and Twitter.
When they open in 2018, the 100-foot-tall orbs—Amazon calls them Biospheres—will host more than 300 plant species from around the world, creating what the company sees as the workplace of the future. Amazonians will be able to break from their daily labors to walk amid the greenery along suspension bridges and climb into meeting spaces resembling bird nests perched in mature trees, where the company expects them to brainstorm—and perhaps even invent the next billion-dollar opportunity. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/29/amazon-seattle-swallowed/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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