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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.
(Score: 2) by Snospar on Friday May 12 2017, @05:55PM
What is up with websites these days, no sooner had I loaded the main article and a vague click on the browser window made it disappear like lightning. Then as I try and find it amidst the animated boxen of news something like a kitten video drifts down one side of the screen to alert me about something I'm not interested in. uBlock Origin is doing its job, as far as I can tell all this crap is intentional.
Why do we have websites designed like this? Is it really for the tablet/phone users? Because my experience with tablet or phone is that you end up with an even shittier cut down version of the same crap. Oh wait, I've got it! It's designed for all those billions of people with a touch screen laptop/desktop who are happy to smear their fingers over their main display.
I give up.
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