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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday May 11 2017, @11:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the dot-com-bubble dept.

USA Today has an article about Amazon.com's new Seattle headquarters, which consist of "three gigantic glass spheres," and about other unusual buildings in the city.

Americans tend to think of brown shipping boxes when it comes to Amazon. But in Seattle, the company is increasingly known as a real-estate owner. That's especially true downtown, where Amazon employs more than 24,000 — some of whom will soon hold meetings and take lunch breaks inside three gigantic glass spheres that add a geodesic flare to the urban grid.

The tallest of the glass and metal Spheres rises 90 feet and is more than 130 feet in diameter, with two smaller spheres to each side. In a city that gets 152 days of rain a year, they will provide a warm, dry, plant-filled space for meetings, meals and mingling for up to 800 Amazon employees at a time.

"It's kind of fantastic," said Thaisa Way, an urban landscape historian at the University of Washington in Seattle.


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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday May 12 2017, @12:56PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Friday May 12 2017, @12:56PM (#508590) Journal

    How will they make sure this glass sphere won't cook people at a temperature of at least 80 ⁰C ? (176 F)
    Sun light in, downconverted by the glass into infrared which the glass then reflects back = oven.

    And of course it will enable Amazon corporation to leave others to breathe all those wonderful exhaust gases ;-)

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