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Amazon’s biosphere domes taking shape in Seattle

In 2013, architecture firm NBBJ unveiled plans for an amazing addition to Amazon’s Seattle campus: three biosphere domes filled with plants. Construction on the biospheres started last year, and recent pictures reveal the domes are slowly starting to take shape.

In April, workers painted the westernmost biosphere white and began to install glass panes on the domes. When finished, the 100-foot-tall biospheres will comprise part of Amazon’s new 3.3 million square foot complex.

The biospheres will bring the outdoors indoors with over 300 species of plants from 30 countries. Suspension bridges inside the domes will allow employees to enjoy the greenery, and there will even be “meeting spaces resembling bird nests perched in mature trees” where employees will gather to brainstorm. Amazon will employ a full-time horticulturalist to care for the biosphere plants.

Read more at Inhabitat
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