Amazon misses the rainforest, seeks to build a giant greenhouse in Seattle

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/05/amazonoffice.jpgYou can take Amazon out of the jungle, but it’ll just create one elsewhere – at least that’s what the company is planning for its inner-city Seattle office complex. A tweaked proposal for Amazon’s three-block development, named “Rufus 2.0,” was run by Seattle’s Design Review Board yesterday, and it now includes a huge biodome structure with the notion that a “plant-rich environment has many positive qualities that are not often found in a typical office setting.” It’s five floors feature places to get work done, “dining, meeting and lounge spaces,” a pair of shops serving the general public and, of course, lots of plants and trees. We’ve included a few more renders of the multi-bubble glass house after the break, and you’ll find even more eye-candy in the source PDF. Forget technology – the competition for the coolest next-gen campus is on.
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Via: GeekWire
Source: Seattle.gov (PDF)