Technology

Amazon Building Workplace of the Future With New HQ's Biospheres

The Amazon.com Inc. headquarters stands near the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. (David Ryder/Bloomberg)
June 29, 2016 05:35 PM

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 office tower. The architectural oddity has already become a tourist attraction and social media phenomenon. Passersby snap photographs and watch construction crews attach glass panes to the steel frames. Images stream through Instagram and Twitter.

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