FINANCIAL TIMES: Amazon wants its staff to work in three giant spherical greenhouses in downtown Seattle, as its instinct to keep a low-profile is overpowered by the kooky futurism of its chief Jeff Bezos.
The online retailer’s plans to make the plant-filled glass domes the centrepiece of its new headquarters, revealed in documents filed with Seattle city planners this week, got a mixed reception at a public meeting.
The biospheres will be between 80ft and 95ft high and create a “more natural, parklike setting”, according to the architects, where workers will huddle in offices and meeting rooms bordered by indoor shrubbery and fully grown trees… (more)
